Founded in 1960, The Brethren Assembly Kuwait (BAK) has been serving the spiritual needs of the community in Kuwait. Rooted in the New Testament pattern, we believe in worshipping God in spirit and truth, and building a strong Christian community. As part of the global Brethren movement, we follow a biblical church structure and emphasize a personal relationship with Christ. Our church is built on these traditions, with a heart for fellowship and evangelism.
The Assemblies of Brethren are a church and Nonconformist Christian movement whose history can be traced back to Dublin, Ireland, in the mid to late 1820s, where it originated from Anglicanism.The group emphasizes sola scriptura, the belief that the Bible is the only authority for church doctrine and practice. The Brethren generally see themselves as a network of like-minded free churches, not as a Christian denomination.
The Brethren movement began in Dublin, Ireland, where several groups of Christians met informally to celebrate the Eucharist together, the first meeting being in 1825. The central figures were Anthony Norris Groves, a dentist studying theology at Trinity College; Edward Cronin, studying medicine, John Nelson Darby, a curate in County Wicklow; and John Gifford Bellett, a lawyer who brought them together. They did not have any liturgy, order of service, or even any ministers; in their view, since their guide was "the Bible alone" they sought to do it according to their own interpretation of the biblical text.[1]
The Indian Brethren have a lot in common in both doctrine and practice, with the international Open Brethren movement, with whom nearly all of them are historically affiliated. The Brethren in India, as in most other countries, do not usually regard themselves as a denomination in the usually understood sense, but rather as a largely informal network of like-minded autonomous local churches. They remain linked mostly through common support of missionaries, youth ministries, and the work of evangelists. The Brethren do not ordain clergy, and each local church, called an assembly, is led by a number of Elders1 The modern Brethren movement was introduced into India in 1833 by Anthony Norris Groves,a dentist turned missionary who was one of the original Plymouth Brethren pioneers in Ireland. The Brethren movement began to take root in Kerala when Mathai Upadeshi, who had been an (Anglican) CMS evangelist from Tirunelveli, arrived in 1872. Another early preacher was Justhus Joseph, also known as Vidwankutty, a Tamil Brahmin and also a CMS priest like Mathai Upadeshi. A second wave of growth among the Kerala Brethren started in 1894 with the arrival of V.D. David, better known in Kerala as Tamil David, and L.M. Wordsmith, the latter an Indian Tamil from Colombo, Sri Lanka. They were joined by Herbert Handley Bird, who established assemblies in Northern Kerala.[4] They were helped by Baptist preacher and Keswick Convention speaker J.G. Gregson, who visited Kerala in 1896. Although a Baptist, he was sympathetic to Brethren viewpoints and helped to found the first Brethren assembly in Travancore, central Kerala. He also preached in Ayroor, near Kumbanad, paving the way for German missionary Volbrecht Nagel to conduct the first Brethren "meeting" (as they usually call their services) there on 19 March 1899.
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