PBC -Tangrei is the Mother Church

 

Phungyo Baptist Church the Mother Church of Manipur need no further altercation

( God choosen and blessed PBC  Mother Church name should not be misuse by might of human egoistic:  BoD )

The Dawn Tantak

      ( PBC board of trustees & Deacons)

UKHRUL,5th Dec'23:     PHUNGYO Baptist Church( PBC) , Ukhrul strongly resented and disown the unsolicited and irrational misuse of PBC name,PBC logo, letterhead and unreasonably claiming the  name  of  Mother Church of Manipur by a breakaway Christian fellow members.

In a Press Conference held at PBC conference hall, Tangrei on Tuesday represented by Board of Deacons ( BoD), Phungyo Baptist Church expressed their shock and dalima for availing the name of PBC by some few vested and unscrupulous persons stating that it  is indeed unfortunate and profoundly misleading the fellow Christians who hear, see and adhere the Christianity since it's establishment in 1901 which is boldly and clearly written at PBC building  located at Tangrei, Hunphun/Ukhrul.

The Board of trustees further informed that using of PBC logo, and letterhead of PBC is illigal and uncalled for so they ask in good faith and in good terms to refrain from using from here after as it may tarnish and distort the history they exhibited.

(Ashong Siro, PBC secretary)

The name Phungyo itself depict and signifies the location and originality where it stands tall from 1901 till today and God forbid the sinster motive.

It is for the gratification of all that PBC is the Mother Church of Manipur and it is neither the mother church of TBCA or TNBC but the one and only geniune Mother Church of the whole of Manipur state the BoD asserts.

UNTIL the beginning of the twentieth century, the Tangkhul Naga Community, like other cognate tribes, were being left much to their ignorant wills and ways. There were no written language, every village has its own dialect; and not a soul in the whole tribe knew anything of even the rudiment of the alphabet. Although the villagers were independent and democratic, clannishness, the fear of evil spirit, a blind belief in the efficacy of monthly and annual feast, ignorance, superstition, sin all these held the people in bondage.

At such a time, one Mr. Pettigrew came to Manipur. At the sight of a white man, the people of Ukhrul took him for a spy or an agent of government. They were ready to kill him. But it was God’s plan that there was a man who could talk to the Missionary in Manipuri. The man whom the missionary called “an influential man” saved him and his wife not less than three times in different occasions. This influential man was no other than Raihao, the Chief of Ukhrul village itself. 

The dreadful Christians who were ceaselessly tortured by the pagan parents also purchased a piece of land in the proximity of the mission bungalow and the school. There they settled down with R. Hollei as the Headman. This new Christian village was given a name PHUNGYO (BEAUTIFUL HILL) by the missionary, thus the name till today where the
'Kingdom of God' was firmly established in Hunphun/ Ukhrul Manipur, BoD added.

It is pertinent to mentioned that Manipur Baptist Convention ( MBC) has already given their consent and acknowledgement recognising PBC Tangrei,Ukl as the Mother Church of Manipur.