Visitors were seen thronging the NBCC’s Miqlat ministry’s stall located at the secretariat’s driveway. The stall is displaying many products including greetings cards for any occasions, soaps, candles, designer lanterns, tea coasters, and handloom and silk products, household draperies and so on.
Miqlat ministry, an undertaking of the NBCC’s women department, is a social ministry that seeks to reach out to downtrodden women. Miqlat ministry came into existence in 2004 and officially launched in 2005. Miqlat is a Hebrew word meaning ‘shelter’ or ‘refuge.’
“Miqlat is there to listen to the brokenness of the broken women and stand with them through prayers, counselling and encouragement,” a brochure received here said. Miqlat is a holistic social ministry dealing not only with the physical, social and emotional well being but also spiritual well being, a registered organization and also a business set up focusing on “business as mission” with the aim to train, empower and offer better alternatives to girls and women and thus give them a chance to live a better, hopeful and dignified life.
The vision of the Ministry is to share the love of Jesus to those who are living a life of shame, guilt, fear and dejection, to impart quality life by providing alternatives through various means and ways, to bring them to the knowledge of their maker and to strongly advocate against modern day slavery. Its mission is to reach out, to touch, to share, to embrace, to empower and to transform to transform. The ministry offers counselling, prayers, vocational trainings, better alternatives, retreats, seminars, bible studies, sports etc.
