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churches convention based in

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, with more than 52,000 members and 354 congregations as of 2014. The Boro Baptist Convention was established in 1914 and completed its centenary celebrations in 2014. It has its headquarters at

Harisinga Harisinga is a town in the Udalguri district in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam. The district was formed when the administration of boro dominated areas came under the B.T.A.D. It falls on the Bhergaon subdivision of Udalguri district; ...

Udalguri District Udalguri district (Pron:ˌʊdʌlˈgʊəri), also known as Odalguri, is a district in the Bodoland Territorial Region of the state of Assam in Northeastern India. Udalguri town is the headquarters of the district. Etymology The name Udalguri, deno ...

Bodoland The Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR), informally Bodoland, is an autonomous region and a proposed state in Assam, Northeast India. It is made up of five districts on the north bank of the Brahmaputra river below the foothills of Bhutan and A ...

, Assam. It is affiliated to the

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. The Union is made primarily of

Bodo people Boro (बर'/बड़ो ), also called Bodo, is the largest ethnolinguistic group in the Assam state of India. They are a part of the greater Bodo-Kachari people, Bodo-Kachari family of ethnolinguistic groups and are spread across northeast ...

, an indigenous ethnic group of Assam.

History

In 1914 Rev. George Richard Kampfer of the

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(ABFMS) who was stationed in Guwahati came to Borigaon and established the first Baptist church. It was in the year 1914 under the guidance of Rev. Kampfer, the Baptist churches of

Udalguri Odalguri (; also spelt Udalguri) is a town and the headquarters of Udalguri district under the jurisdiction of Bodoland Territorial Council which controls the Bodoland Territorial Area Districts in the state of Assam. Geography Odalguri is l ...

district (then Mangaldai Sub division) of Assam came together unitedly and formed a Christian Organization called "Mangaldai Baptist Christian Association". At the time of formation there were only 5 churches. In the year 1983 when Darrang district was divided into two districts by the government it was in that pattern the association was renamed as "Darrang Baptist Christian Association". Again while the Bodoland Territorial Council was created by the Central government as separate administration for the Boros it was then called "Boro Baptist Convention" in 2003.The Canaan, Souvenir, Centenary Jubilee Celebration, Boro Baptist Convention, 2014 The American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (ABFMS) missionaries were in charge of the "Mangaldai Baptist Christian Association" (MBCA) till 1945 when they handed over the MBCA to the

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, USA. Rev. Johnson of the Baptist General Conference built the present mission center at Harisinga. The Harisinga Mission school was developed and the Baptist Christian Hospital was constructed. The missionaries left in 1969 and handed over the administration of the association to the locals. As of 2014, the convention had 92 full-time workers including departmental secretaries.

Organization

The Boro Baptist Convention has a General Council and an Executive Committee. They oversee the work of the other departments of the convention which are: * Church Growth Department * Mission and Evangelism Department * Christian Education Department *Women Department * Youth Department * Prayer Department * General Education Department * Zion Bible College * Relief and Development

Education

Diamond English School

Diamon English School, Udalguri was established in 1989 in commemoration of the Diamond jubilee of the then Darrang Baptist Christian association.

Zion Bible College

Zion Bible college has been offering G.Th and B.Th courses over the years.

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