Nagaland Baptist Church Council


The Nagaland Baptist Church Council is a Baptist Christian denomination in India. It is affiliated with the Council of Baptist Churches in Northeast India and the Baptist World Alliance. The headquarters is in Kohima, in Nagaland.

History

The Nagaland Baptist Church Council has its origins in an American mission of the American Baptist Mission in 1839.
In the late 19th century, various Baptist congregations in the Naga Hills were organised into associations on tribe and linguistic lines. A broader fellowship of the Baptist churches in the Naga Hills first took the forms of the Naga Hills Baptist Church Advisory Board in Kohima. It was renamed as the Naga Hills Baptist Church Council in 1937.
In 1953, it took the name of Nagaland Baptist Church Council. In 2007, there were 1,347 churches and 454,349 members. In 2016, it has 1,615 churches and 610,825 members.

Resolutions

The Third Convention of the NBCC was held at Wokha from 31 January to 2 February 1964. An important resolution passed welcomed the 'proposed Peace Talk between the Government of India and Mr. Phizo.' Another resolution at the convention stated,

Statistics

The statistics for the NBCC is given below with the number of churches and number of Baptized Church members only as on 2011.
Communicant members including children and non-baptized family members are not included in the statistics.

Associations

Associate Members