Jakhama, January 4 (MExN): The Golden Jubilee Celebration of Jakhama Town Baptist Church was held from January 3 to 4, 2026, at the Jakhama Local Ground.
The speakers for the programme included Executive Director of Angami Baptist Church Council (ABCC) Rev Dr Rachulie Vihienuo, Managing Director of Baptist High Rev Dr Mechiehol Savi, and Senior Pastor of Koinonia Baptist Church (KBC) Rev Dr Zotuo Kiewhuo.
On January 3, a monolith commemorating the Golden Jubilee was unveiled, with Senior Pastor of Jakhama Baptist Church Rev Zapovil Sophie ministering the act.
During the culmination service held on Sunday evening, Rev Dr Zotuo Kiewhuo delivered the message from the scripture “My House Shall Be Called a House of Prayer” (Luke 19:46). He said God has ordained three divine institutions — the Church, Marriage and Government — and maintained that the Church stands as the highest institution ordained by God.
He said the establishment and foundation of the Church was first pronounced by Jesus in Matthew 16:18, where Jesus declared that He would build His church upon the confession of faith made by Peter. The speaker stated that Peter’s declaration of Jesus as the Son of God and the Messiah forms the primary essence of church ordination. He added that the Church is not an ordinary place of gathering but is meant to be a house of prayer, a place where people meet God, the lost find hope and repentant sinners attain salvation, citing Isaiah 56:7 and Luke 19:46.
Rev Dr Kiewhuo said the rise of the Church following the ascension of Jesus is recorded in Acts 2, where conversion began through the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost. He noted that Peter’s sermon on repentance brought more than three thousand people to faith, and that the Church continued to grow through prayer, witness and the power of the Holy Spirit, as recorded in Acts 2:41–42.
He stated that had American missionaries not brought the gospel of Christ to the Nagas around 150 years ago, the people would have continued living in a dark and barbaric state. Referring to the past, he said Nagas were once headhunters who took lives mercilessly, describing them as socially worse than animals, mentally uncivilised and spiritually sons and daughters of Lucifer.
He said that neither government nor religion could bring change to the Nagas, but that the gospel of grace and truth — the message of salvation offered by Jesus Christ — transformed the land. “Today we have become soul hunters for Jesus Christ as legitimate sons and daughters of God,” he said.
Maintaining that the gospel has spread to every part of the state, Rev Dr Kiewhuo said Jakha Town Baptist Church is also a recipient of God’s grace. He invoked the church to grow as a praying church interceding for all people and nations, citing 1 Timothy 2:1–6, and stressed the need for the church to produce and send disciples to preach the gospel to the ends of the earth.
Special songs during the service were presented by the Jubilee Choir, Shieshülie Kro-u and Dr Watinaro Kiewhuo. A memory verse was recited by Sunday School students, while the programme was led by Meyiengonu Tetso.
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