Before the advent of Christianity, women are confined at home and in agricultural fields. They are illiterate and ignorant. Missionaries gave great importance to the education of women. It was the vision of two missionaries—Dr. Marcus Clark Mason and Dr. Elnathan Gooding Phillips that “if the girls would be educated, they would be killing two birds with one stone, because through girls who later on become mothers, they would be able to educate as well as pass on Christian faith on the family.”
Schools exclusively opened for women by women missionaries, trained them not only to be good mothers and homemakers but also prepared them to take active roles in the leadership of the church. They began to help missionaries in their own capacity.
1966 Onwards
Before forming an organized body of women wing in GBC, it was reported that women had separate service during “Soba” (General Assembly of Convention). Still, only in 1966, during the 92nd Soba of GBC at Silkigre village, women’s wing was officially recognized as one of the departments in GBC under the leadership of Mrs. Emogene K. Marak and Mrs. Nillie G. Momin. In 1972 the women wing named themselves Achik Baptist Mechikrangni Dalgipa Krima commonly known as ABMDK.
