Clark Center celebrates peace with a festival in Tuli

Mokokchung, Feb. 6: The Clark Centre for Peace Research and Action (CCPRA) under Clark Theological College in Mokokchung collaborated with Tuli Town Baptist Church to organize a festival they dubbed the ‘Peace Festival’ on February 5.

The Peace Festival was held at Tuli Town Baptist Church. The event featured an evening of music, dance and drama based on the theme “Celebrating Peace, God’s Greatest Gift.”

The CCPRA’s coordinator Pursenla Ozukum, said in her introductory note that the programs and functions of the CCPRA were corruption, injustice and social evils. Every individual should engage in fighting against them and to participate in the quest for peace, she said.

The principal of CTC, Rev. Dr. Marnungsang Pongen also said in his address that the people ‘should love peace.’ Referring to John 14:27, he said that peace should not be based on lies; not forsaking truth and that peace should come from ‘deep within the heart.’

Further, he said that peace was needed everywhere by everyone. The current situation in the state of Nagaland is a witness to the thirst for peace, he said.

Members of the host church, faculty, staff members and students of the CTC and members from various other churches in Tuli attended the festival. The festival was marked by music and dance performances from CTC students, besides special presentations from the Tuli Lenden Baptist Church, Tzudikong Baptist Church and Tuli Town Baptist church.

The CTC students also enacted a play ‘Sabi, Sabi’ telling about the corruption in the society.