About the fellowship · 1975 aṭangin
A non-denominational church for every Mizo in and around Karnataka, worshipping in our own tongue since 1975. The story below is the fellowship’s own, kept in Mizo as it was written.
Kan chanchin
Part 01 · Who we are
Bangalore Mizo Christian Fellowship (BMCF) — “The Bangalore Mizo Church” hi Bangalore Mizote tan kan hnam mil leh keimahni ṭawng ngei a Pathian kan biak hona huapzo Kohhran ni turin kum 1975 khan din a ni a, Bangalore Mizote ṭhuikhawmtu Pâwl/Kohhran ding hmasa bêr a ni.
Part 02 · How it started
Bangalore khawpuia Mizo awm hmasa te chuan Mizo kan nihna leh Krista ringtu kan nihna chawi nungin, kan pipute inpumkhatna thu hlu, “Dam leh tlang khatah, thih leh ruam khatah” an lo tih ang khan tlang khata khawsa a, Pathian chibai bukho turin Denomination leh Hnam bil indaidanna an ṭhiat a, min ṭhenhrang theitu aiin min tipumkhattu an chawisang a, hmun khatah Pathian be ho turin bul an lo ṭan a ni.
Part 03 · How we evolved
Bangalore a Mizo tute pawh, Mizo inpumkhatna leh Krista ringtu nihna vawng nungtute kalkhawmna chu BMCF a ni ta zel a ni. Karnataka Society Registration Act hnuaiah kum 1993 khan in ziahluh a ni a, sawrkar dãn zawmin rawngbâwlna leh khawtlang tana ṭangkai theihna apiangah hma a la ṭhîn.
Part 04 · How we worship
Pathianni Inkhâwm (Sunday Worship Service) puitling leh naupang tan, Chawlhkar Inkhâwm (Weekdays Fellowship), Annual Gospel Camping/Retreat leh a dangte hmangin memberte tan Pathian biakna hun pawimawh a siam ṭhîn.
Kan thiltumte
Ten aims, as the fellowship sets them out.
Pathianni-a Pathian Biak inkhâwm buatsaih.
Kristaa nunthar nei türa mite hruai.
Hun puma Pathian rawngbâwl türa infuih.
Member tinte theihna leh thiamna Pathian tana buatsaih leh inhmantir.
Kristian nun dãn ṭha leh awm dãn mawi lantir leh zirtîr.
Hnam, chi leh sakhua thliar lova tanpui ngaite tanpui.
Ram leh hnam tana rinawm tür leh ṭangkai türa infuih.
Chanchin ṭha la hre lote hnena rawngbâwl.
A tul dãn ang zêla Kohhran leh Pâwl thawhpui.
BMCF hmalakna leh rawngbâwlna atana project siam leh tihhlawhtlin.
Founders · Upa · Chaplains
Inkaihhruaina
Every role is voluntary and rotates each April, so the work never rests on one pair of hands.
Hun kal
The first fellowship of Mizo Christians in Bangalore. It met on the UTC campus until 1985.
Karnataka Societies Registration Act, 1960 · Regd. No. 427/93–94.
Worship returns to the UTC campus, and the first of three Chaplains is called.
Four elders are ordained.
Fifty years, marked with the Golden Jubilee Souvenir.
Twenty-one bodies, four Area Fellowships, Sunday worship at Ranson Hall.
Visit
3:00 PM · Charles Ranson Hall, The United Theological College, 63 Miller’s Road, Benson Town, Bengaluru. Sunday School at the same time.
The photograph behind the masthead is BMCF Sunday 2024, the fellowship’s forty-ninth anniversary, 28 July 2024, from the photo archive.
