Lotha Baptist Churches Association (LBCA) hosted a thanksgiving service at Mission Centre Vankhosung Wokha on April 19, to invoke God’s blessings upon the newly elected legislators from Lotha community to the 13th NLA.
According to a DIPR report, the Deputy Chief Minister and in-charge of Home & National Highway, Y. Patton thanked the LBCA for taking out the time and organizing such an event to felicitate the newly elected legislators. He stated that it was because of their prayer support and blessings that they could become leaders of the community in particular and of the Nagas in general. He urged them to continue to support them in their prayers so that they could meet their aspirations for the upliftment of the community.
Patton also thanked the LBCA for actively participating in the process of clean and peaceful elections during the recently concluded election. On the government commitment of ushering in peace, prosperity and development in the district as well as in the state, he urged the church leaders to support them in prayers and to guide them.
Advisor of Horticulture, Mhathung Yanthan, while thanking God for choosing him as a leader, also sought support and cooperation from the public to enable him to uplift the economic status of the community. He opined that, at this juncture the district required an able leader to take advantage of the blessed natural resources and fertile land. He said that “we” need to exploit it technologically to its full potential to develop the district as well as the state.
MLA 38 Wokha A/C, Dr. Chumben Murry, said that state and the church must have a vision to work together and opined that “our” state was moving in the direction of a failed state. He urged that that should be avoided through collective responsibility and to change the mindset of the state to move forward.
Executive secretary, LBCA Rev. Nyanchumo Lotha invoked God’s blessing on the newly elected legislators of the district.