AIZAWL: Decks have been cleared for the ordination of Dr RL Hnuni as Mizoram's first-ever woman pastor after the assembly executive committee, the top decision-making body of the Baptist Church of Mizoram (BCM), gave its approval.
Sources in the BCM said Hnuni, the principal of the Academy of Integrated Christian Studies (AICS) and a dedicated theologian, would be ordained on March 11 at the Assembly of the BCM in south Mizoram's Lunglei town.
Earlier, the recommendations of the pastoral committee of the Church was rejected by the executive committee of the assembly and Hnuni's hopes to become an ordained priest were dashed. Besides being a graduate from secular college and also from Theological College (Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Divinity), Hnuni completed her Masters and doctorate in theology from UTC, Bangalore.
After working as a lecturer in the Aizawl Theological College and Eastern Theological College, she was the treasurer of the Senate of Serampore College before becoming the principal of AICS in 2001, the post she held till date.