S. Anungla is the first full-time female pastor amongst the

Chang Naga The Changs are a Naga ethnic group inhabiting the Northeast Indian state of Nagaland. They were also known as Mazung in British India. Other Naga ethnic groups know the Changs by different names including ''Changhai'' ( Khiamniungan), ''Chang ...

tribes in Nagaland. In 2011, she was appointed to the position at Chang Baptist Church in Kohima.

Education

She completed her Bachelor in Theology and Bachelor in Divinity from the

Union Biblical Seminary Union Biblical Seminary (UBS) is a theological seminary founded by Wesleyan and Methodist denominations in Pune, India. UBS started as a Marathi-medium Bible School opened by the Free Methodist Church and was finally established in 1953 and i ...

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Pastoral life

After her theology studies, she worked at the Eleutheros Christian Society (ECS) in

Tuensang Tuensang () is a town located in the northeastern part of the Indian state of Nagaland. It is the headquarters of the Tuensang District and has a population of 36,774. The town was founded in 1947 for the purpose of administrating the erstwhile ...

with drug addicts in rehabilitation for three months. Prior to her appointed as pastor, she had already worked for ten years as the secretary of the women department of the Chang Baptist Lashoung Thangyen (CBLT).

References

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