Leader
Mr. Jongshimanen Jamir
Director, Mission
Annual Mission Programme
April
Since its inception in 1958 the church has been involved in missions, which shows that it is a living church. Its active involvement in God’s mission started in 1979, on 29 April, when the church made the decision and declared that DABA would be a Missionary Church. This was a God-given vision that came after a week-long Bible study (23 to 29 April 1979), when the church members asked God for a vision for the church’s ministry.
To glorify God through bringing people to Christ and planting biblically sound, self-supporting local churches through evangelism and discipleship.
To take the gospel to people of other cultures, the church has started two mission field projects: one in Naogon District, Assam, among the Plain Karbis, and the other in Lower Dibang Valley and Upper Dibang Valley Districts, Arunachal Pradesh, among the Idu Mishmis.
The church seeks to glorify God through bringing people to Christ and planting biblically sound, self-supporting local churches through evangelism and discipleship. In practice, we:
The field is in the districts of Lower Dibang Valley and Upper Dibang Valley, among the Idu Mishmi tribes of Arunachal Pradesh. After the declaration that DABA would be a Missionary Church, the church decided to do mission work in Arunachal Pradesh.
In 1984 the church sent a three-member survey team to Tezu, the district headquarters of Lohit District. The team brought back encouraging news that mission could start among the Mishmis with Tezu as the mission centre, and the same year the church decided to work among the Mishmis. The mission at Tezu ran until 1994. Because of differences among the Mishmis (Tekaro Mishmi, Idu Mishmi and Mizo Mishmi), the mission centre was moved to Roing Town, in Lower Dibang Valley. The first missionary to work there was Mr. L. M. Yanger Thonga.
The local churches have formed an association called the Idu Mishmi Baptist Khumu Keba Embo (IMBKKE). It has four office bearers, appointed for a five-year term, who carry out the association’s work together with the Field Director.
Rev. K. Imtiwati Jamir, Field Director, Idu Mishmi Mission Field
This field is in Naogon District, Assam, among the Plain Karbis. In 1984 a four-member committee was sent to Pokaigaon, one of the Plain Karbi villages, to survey the place. DABA then approached CBCNEI and the Naogon District Baptist Churches Association about taking over the area for mission. After agreement between DABA and that association, DABA took over the mission work with Pokaigaon as the mission centre. Today there are local churches sponsored by the church in the areas of Rangaloo, Kundoli, Jaklapanda, Sabanala, Salona, Kaliviti, and Barokwhoa, all under Naogon District.
Mr. I. Sensen was the first missionary sent by DABA to the Plain Karbis, in 1986, and he served there for six years. Four missionaries have worked in the field so far. The current field staff are:
In 1993, through the initiative of Mr. C. S. Milik, a school was opened under the name Rev. Mills Bronson English School. In 1997 the proprietor handed it over to DABA, and in 1999 it was renamed Plain Karbi Mission English School (PKMES), under the motto Learn to Serve. Mrs. Temsütola Longchar is the Head Mistress.
The school follows the SEBA syllabus and has around 403 students, with a residential hostel for 170 of them. Eight batches of Class 10 students have passed out, and the 2013 and 2014 batches each had a 100 percent pass record. Students from the Karbi, Muslim, Hindu, and other communities study there.
“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
Matthew 28:19–20
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