Mara Evangelical Church (MEC) has its headquarters at Lialaipi (Lailenpi) and Sabyhpi (Khihlo) in Chin State, Myanmar.
English missionaries Reverend and Mrs. Reginald Arthur Lorrain (brother of missionary James Herbert Lorrain) founded Lakher Pioneer Mission in London in 1905 to engage in mission work among the Mara people in British India, which included modern-day Myanmar.
Finally, the missionaries arrived at Saikao, a village in southern Mizoram on September 26, 1907, and started spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ among the Mara people who inhabit today's Saiha District in Mizoram, India and the southwestern part of Chin state in Myanmar.
In Chin state, the area inhabited by the Mara people falls under three townships – Thantlang, Matupi and Paletwa.
The denomination has a theological seminary and Private Mission middle school and Center of Maraland Education.