Presbyterian Church of India

Two Khasi were converted through the ministry of Krishna Chandra Pal, who was deputised by William Carey in 1813, and worked at the trading outpost of Pandua, situated in the Sylhet Plains.

William Carey, heartened by the efforts of Krishna Pal, began a translation of the Bible into Khasi using Bengali script.

Lish stayed six years, learning the language, opening schools, and translating the New Testament into Khasi, using Bengali script.

The Secretary of the Welsh Mission, the Reverend John Thomas Jones from Aberriw in Wales who had a strong desire to work in India had applied to the LMS on medical grounds.

Reverend Jones managed to obtain support from his congregation and incorporated The Welsh Missionary Society and they sent him to work in the Khasi Hills[5] The Foreign Missions enterprise of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church (later known as the Presbyterian Church of Wales) began at Liverpool in 1840.

A former London City Missionary by the name of Jacob Tomlin had toured the Khasi Hills before 1840 and recommended that the Welsh Calvinists adopt this area as its first mission.

The Reverend was aided by a number of other Welsh missionary workers and the first two converts to the Christian faith from Khasiland were baptised in March 1846.

[7] Rev Thomas Jones and his wife arrived in Sohra and from the town, this work spread to Sylhet today known as Bangladesh and Cachar Plains, Assam, Mizoram, Manipur and Tripura.

[8] By the end of the 1890s the church grew in membership and character, this was the Welsh religious revival, and includes today the whole population.

This cooperation was dissolved in 2012 when the PC(USA) voted to ordain openly gay clergy to the ministry.

[17] The Mizoram Presbyterian Church Synod is the largest with 611,241 members in 54 presbyteries, which has its headquarters in Aizawl, India.