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Diphu, May 26 (EMN): The three day long golden jubilee celebration of Diphu Baptist Church (DBC), commenced on May 25. DBC which is the pioneer church of Diphu town is celebrating the jubilee with theme ‘Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today, Hebrew 13:8.'
The jubilee souvenir mentioned that the 50 years long journey of DBC was because of the togetherness of few Christian members who had come to settle in Diphu for the sake of serving in government offices, which was between 1948 to 1950 that led to the establishment of present Diphu Baptist Church.
From 1965 the few Christian families in Diphu started to meet regularly for prayer service during which a Christian fellowship was formed combining the Kari, Mizo, Rengma and Garo Christian.
With the increase of number of families the need to have a church was felt. It was during the annual conference of Nihang Karbi Baptist Association (NKBA) of 1968 held at Kahora Baptist Church that NKBA accepted the proposal to set-up a church in Diphu. Accordingly on May 28, 1968 DBC was constituted.
Speaker Rev. LK Tsanglao, former missionary to NKBA during the jubilee service said the Diphu Baptist Church by attaining the age of 50 has become matured to sent their members for Cross Culture Mission to other places.
Rev. Tsanglao said that from a handful of 17 Christian families it has now increased to 180 families, which is truly the blessing of God.
On the last day a ‘re-union Sunday’ for formers DBC members would be held.