Kohima, July 5 (MExN): The Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC) observed Youth Week and Youth Sunday from June 28-July 4 in all the local Churches under the Council.
According the an NBCC release, the week long program included (i) Chain of Prayers (ii) daily Family Prayers at 7 pm and (iii) Sanitation Day with Tree/Fruit Tree plantations, Cleaning the Church and public footpaths, helping the old and needy people by cutting hair, fetching waters, chopping firewood, cutting nails, washing dishes and cleaning household chores etc.
Youth Day worship on Sunday on July 4 also witnessed song competition, creative worship, and few sports activities, informed the release from Rev Vikuo Rhi, Secretary, Youth Department, NBCC.
The event culminated with a virtual worship by all the NBCC Youth Committee Members and Association Youth Secretaries/Director/Coordinators on Sunday with the General Secretary, Asia Pacific Baptist Federation (APBF) Rev Dr Vesekhoyi (Vee) Tetseo as its Speaker, it said.
Dwelling on topic “Stronger Together – Hope” (Romans 8:24), he noted that the COVID-19 pandemic has affected almost everyone globally.
“But the one word that continued to resonate amongst believers was ‘Hope’,” he said.
As followers of Jesus, believers must not get frustrated in the face of suffering and pain as they have a savior and the current suffering temporary and it will one day give way to eternal glory, he note, saying, “Christ Jesus is our Hope!”
Tsenbemo Ngullie, the Youth Secretary, Nagaland Police Baptist Churches Association shared on the challenges during pandemic of how he along with his wife and two children got infected with COVID-19 but were healed by God’s grace, the release said. The virtual worship was led by Rev. Vikuo Rhi.
The NBCC Youth Week and Youth Sunday has been a regular calendar of events which usually observed during the first week and on first Sunday of July every year. It was first observed in on July 4, 1982.
The Youth Department, an apex body of the NBCC, ministers to 2, 12,306 baptised members and was established in 1972, 35 years of the Council’s establishment in 1937, the release added.
