The Church is Established
Shekinah Gospel Prayer Fellowship, DJ Halli was officially established, marking the culmination of a journey that began with a simple, powerful seed of faith.
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Our Journey
The Story of Our Church
From a seed of faith to a flourishing fellowship, every milestone shaped by God's grace.
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A Leap of Faith
Pastor Deena Dayalan was serving as a part-time minister while working at the Reserve Bank of India. With only 26 days left before he became eligible for pension, God called him to resign. In faith, he obeyed, surrendering security for full-time ministry.
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A Garage Becomes a House of Worship
The property, once a garage holding an Ambassador car and old fridges, belonged to an owner who had received a vision from God that it would one day become a place of worship. God spoke the same to Pastor Deena Dayalan, and the two visions aligned perfectly.
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30 Members and a Mission
The church began with just 30 people. God moved powerfully, delivering the demon-possessed, lifting families from poverty, redeeming the addicted, and drawing many young people out of secret sins into salvation through Christ.
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Miraculous Growth, Healings and Deliverance
God performed great healings through this ministry; people came in wheelchairs and left walking. The congregation grew from 30 to 60, then to 120, and services expanded from one to two, then three.
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Expansion of Ministry
Today, Shekinah Gospel Prayer Fellowship stands with over a thousand baptisms, multiple services, and multiple branches. All glory belongs to God alone, Acts 4:12.
Our Pastor
About Our Pastor
Joyson Sridhar Dayalan was dedicated to the work of the Lord from childhood. After completing his B.Com degree, he committed himself to full-time ministry in 2008 following a season of deep spiritual transformation, during which God stirred his heart, broke old bonds, and birthed within him a strong desire for the work of the Kingdom.
In 2008, Pastor Joyson moved to Maine, where he underwent four years of biblical and theological training at Faith School of Theology. Upon returning to India in 2012, he began serving alongside our founding pastor, faithfully laboring in ministry and shepherding the church.
He was ordained as a pastor in 2014 and, following the passing of our founding pastor, became the Lead Pastor in 2020.
Pastor Joyson carries a vision to see thousands transformed by the Gospel and added to the church through our DJ Halli campus and to see many more churches planted for the glory of God. His passion is to see the Kingdom of God established through the faithful preaching of the Word and through the transforming, supernatural work of God in the lives of people.
Statement of Faith
What We Believe
Our core biblical convictions and foundational doctrines.
God
Who is God?
We believe in the one eternal God who exists in three distinct persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is not the Son, the Son is not the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit is not the Father. The three persons are truly distinct from one another, yet they are one God, sharing the one undivided divine essence.
By essence, we mean what God is: the one divine being and nature that belongs fully and equally to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is fully God, the Son is fully God, and the Holy Spirit is fully God. None possesses only part of God's divine nature, nor are there three separate divine beings. There is only one God.
By person, we mean who God is: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are three distinct persons who are personally distinguishable from one another. The Father is not the Son; the Son is not the Spirit; and the Spirit is not the Father. Yet each person possesses the fullness of the one divine essence. Thus, we confess one God in three persons, not three Gods.
The three persons of the Trinity are one not merely in purpose, will, or agreement, but in essence and essential nature. They possess the same divine attributes and the same undivided divine nature. The one God eternally exists as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. As Scripture declares, “The LORD our God, the LORD is one” (Deuteronomy 6:4).
While we confess that the Trinity is a mystery that finite human minds cannot fully comprehend, we do not regard it as something Scripture leaves unclear. God has revealed himself in Scripture as one God in three persons, and we therefore receive this truth by faith according to his revelation.
We believe that the doctrine of the Trinity is essential to understanding the saving work of God in redemption. The Father sends the Son, the Son accomplishes redemption for his people, and the Holy Spirit applies that redemption to us. The one triune God is therefore revealed throughout the whole history of redemption as the God who saves.
"How good and pleasant it is when God's people live together in unity!"Psalm 133:1