Rajabari & Yajang-C Baptist Church members at the Advent Christmas celebrations held today at Rajabari Baptist Church.
Dimapur, December 18 (MExN): Ushering the true spirit of Christmas, two warring villages along the Assam-Nagaland border, Rajabari in Assam and Yajang-C in Nagaland, jointly celebrated Advent Christmas today at Rajabari Baptist Church.
This joint fellowship is significance as the two villages were not in good terms for quite sometime due to damage inflicted on rubber plantation belonging to Yajang-C village at the border of Yajang-C and Rajabari area, allegedly by the Assam forest personals assisted by Assam armed police and civil administration from Teok revenue circle on October 28 which triggered tension amongst the border peace loving people.
This joint fellowship is significance as the two villages were not in good terms for quite sometime due to damage inflicted on rubber plantation belonging to Yajang-C village at the border of Yajang-C and Rajabari area, allegedly by the Assam forest personals assisted by Assam armed police and civil administration from Teok revenue circle on October 28 which triggered tension amongst the border peace loving people.
Warring villages celebrate pre-Christmas together Later, the incident led to misunderstanding and mistrust amongst the people of Yajang and Rajabari, creating more uneasy situations. To ease the situation and bring relations back to normalcy, the Assam Valley Baptist Mission in association with the Border Peace Coordination Committee (Assam-Nagaland) initiated a joint pre-Christmas prayer service between Yajang and Rajabari Church members today at Rajabari Baptist Church.
In his key note address, Temsu Wathi Ao, President of Assam Valley Baptist Mission welcomed the congregation and thanked the Church functionaries and members of both the churches for extending meaningful support to the joint coordination prayer fellowship. He called upon all members present for ushering peace during the Christmas season especially in the Assam Nagaland border areas. He welcomed all peace loving people who attended the celebration and for ushering love and understanding thus creating lasting peace and glorifying the meaning of Christmas.
T. Kora Jamir, Deacon from Yajang-C village while welcoming the congregation hoped that the people of these two villages will take this peace initiative further. He thanked the Assam Valley Baptist Mission for the good initiative taken for uniting them and also the Border Peace Coordination Committee’s untiring support and effort to resolve the issue.
The President of the Central Assam Baptist Association (Golaghat), Deben Purty thanked the AVBM for meaningfully initiating today’s function which concerns not only the people of two states but also the Christians at large. The Rajabari Baptist Church is affiliated with the Central Assam Baptist Association (Golaghat). Rajabari was earlier known as “Leprosy Camp” since this isolated area was first developed by the authorities of the Jorhat Christian Medical Centre (JCMC) to keep and treat the Leprosy patients and their families in an isolated location and hence they sought a plot of land from the then Government of Assam in the undivided Sibsagar District authorities HQ: Jorhat in the year 1950. Later, some of the American missionaries from JCMC had also volunteered to settle with the patients and founded a Baptist Church there in the year 1955.
In his key note address, Temsu Wathi Ao, President of Assam Valley Baptist Mission welcomed the congregation and thanked the Church functionaries and members of both the churches for extending meaningful support to the joint coordination prayer fellowship. He called upon all members present for ushering peace during the Christmas season especially in the Assam Nagaland border areas. He welcomed all peace loving people who attended the celebration and for ushering love and understanding thus creating lasting peace and glorifying the meaning of Christmas.
T. Kora Jamir, Deacon from Yajang-C village while welcoming the congregation hoped that the people of these two villages will take this peace initiative further. He thanked the Assam Valley Baptist Mission for the good initiative taken for uniting them and also the Border Peace Coordination Committee’s untiring support and effort to resolve the issue.
The President of the Central Assam Baptist Association (Golaghat), Deben Purty thanked the AVBM for meaningfully initiating today’s function which concerns not only the people of two states but also the Christians at large. The Rajabari Baptist Church is affiliated with the Central Assam Baptist Association (Golaghat). Rajabari was earlier known as “Leprosy Camp” since this isolated area was first developed by the authorities of the Jorhat Christian Medical Centre (JCMC) to keep and treat the Leprosy patients and their families in an isolated location and hence they sought a plot of land from the then Government of Assam in the undivided Sibsagar District authorities HQ: Jorhat in the year 1950. Later, some of the American missionaries from JCMC had also volunteered to settle with the patients and founded a Baptist Church there in the year 1955.
