THE BIRTH OF EBCC EVANGELICAL BAPTIST CONVENTION CHURCH

THE BIRTH OF EBCC: 

The Paite speaking groups were not keen on the idea of division. They even
requested the resident missionary Paul Rostard not to divide the
Assembly. (Jayaselyn 1996, 96). Their main concern was that there were
too many Paites yet to be evangelized, and they had too few workers and
no money at all! Luaizakham expressed, "they feel that they could not
be able to stand alone"! The Paites speaking group then called for an
emergency meeting at Sialbu from 5-7 march, 1948, to consider the
matter of the church. This was the birth of the present EBCC. They had
their own conference at Kaihlam in 1949, here they were still known as
the Paite presbytery or south eastern area presbytery. In
1950, they had their conference at Songtal and took the name Manipur
Christian Convention (MCC). (Jayaselyn, 1996, 96). In 1950, the Paite
Christian is only 2000, but in 1998, the Executive secretary reports on
annual convention shows there were 43,788 members among the Paite
Christian. It shows Paite were Gods own tribe, God's own people, truly
Christians and separated from the world. In the year 1972, MCC was
changed into Evangelical Convention church (ECC). It was resounding in
the ears, the John.R.Stott once says, "We need to become global Christian with a global vision, for we have a global God"!
(John. R. Stott. 21). The global missions mindedly the Evangelical
Convention Church has been added Baptist after Evangelical, now
officially the Evangelical Baptist Convention church is accepted and
affiliated by Baptist world Alliance (BWA) Member on 1999 at Dresen,
Germany. The EBCC also member as Asian Baptist Federation (ABF) too. (A) The administration process of EBCC:
The Evangelical Baptist Convention Church administration process is
closely connected to governing system in the countries. The Executive
secretary or General Secretary will be an only chief functionary and
overall controller but Board of trusties (BOT) who represents
Directors, Division and field superintendents; anointed elders
including him decision will be the supreme power. Under Executive
secretary, the Directors like missions, Ministries, and Institutions;
they can't serve more than two terms continuously. The Principal Grace Bible College
will serve Secretary and board of Governors in the college; his
progress should report to Executive secretary. The Divisional
Superintendent and field Superintendents was also one of the executive
officers in Evangelical Baptist Convention Church, their progress report should directed to concerned Directors and General Secretary The
Pastors and Teachers will be executive officers the place where they
served, and the Tualsung Baptist Saptuam Upa committee (TBSUC) will be
church officers in all the Administration affairs on a particular
church. The Evangelical Baptist Convention Church ultimate purpose is, "Praise and worship God". The
missionary work is their priority their goal and plan too. The evangelical Baptist Conventional Church
always welcome the one who wish to get recognition or affiliation and
particular denomination or institution. More over, there is a great
widely open to serve with our God's kingdom expansion Ministries.