Twenty five years anniversary of Naga mission to Himalayan tribes (1992-2017) was celebrated at Khatima of Nainital district, Uttarakhand on November 12. The programme was preceded by dedication of a church building at Babathan, Nepal on November 11.
A press release by Naga Mission to Himalaya tribes stated that the anniversary was successfully celebrated with over 1000 people including 30 pastors, local believers and people from Nagaland.
Rev. Dr. Phuveyi Dozo, who pioneered the mission, spoke on the occasion based on three dimensional growths.
He said from Khatima, the Naga missionaries spread up to different circles and places across North India and Central Nepal, namely, Bareilly, Kiccha, Haldwani, and Nauntanwa, and Mahendranagar and Syangja of Nepal having 470 churches and house fellowships with 15,000 believers across the region.
Pastor of 1st Police Baptist Church, Chumukedima, Nagaland, Rev. Manen Longkumer, delivered the greetings. A book titled “A Journey of Naga Mission to Himalayan Tribes” was also released.
The release informed that Nagaland Missions Movement (NMM) of Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC), for the first time, began a cross-cultural mission in North India, Hindi speaking world in 1987, stationing at Ganjdundwara of Etah district of UP.
The Delhi Naga Christian Fellowship then reinforced the infant mission while NBCC-OCI partnership began to take it off with a broader focus by 1988.
After an itinerant evangelistic movement, the pioneers landed at Khatima as its coordinating center in 1992 with few believers when a proper team was formed with missionaries from Nagaland.