On May 15, 2021, at St Andrew’s Church, Haluaghat Ms Bani Ghagra took the vows as a sister through the Lord’s Supper worship. The Most Respected Moderator Rt Rev’d Samuel S. Mankhin blessed Sister Bani as a Sister. The vows were attended by the Priests, Catechist and Parish Secretary from various parishes of Haluaghat Deanery and dignitaries of the local parish.
Due to the outbreak of coronavirus in the country, the ceremony was shortened. After the vows, a reception is held. At the end of the reception, the vows end with a fellowship lunch.
Sister Bani Ghagra was born on 15th October 1999 in a family at Baghaitala village. She is the second of three sisters in their family. Father Alpon Ritchil and mother Eva Ghagra of the Sister Bani died at an early age. She later grew up with her grandmother. But Grandma is still alive. Sister Bani studied at the St. Mary’s Hostel. She passed Secondary School Certificate -SSC from the hostel. After passing SSC she joined St. Mary’s Sisterhood at Haluaghat. Sister Bani entered the St. Mary’s Sisters Society on May 17, 2016. She took the vows as a Novice on 23rd November 2017 and finally she took the vow as a sister on 15th May 2021.
It is noted that at present there are five sisters in the St. Mary’s Sisterhood. Sister Mira Mankhin (Sister Superior), Sister Anita Raksam, Sister Beauty Doffo, Sister Mala Chisim and Sister Bani Ghagra. Their daily routine is to keep the altars and other places of worship clean, to provide religious education to the children in the schools and hostel nearby, to assist the priest in worship, to visit the family and to attend any prayer meeting. We pray for their lives.
Church of Bangladesh Partners Consultation has held from 1-2nd November 2012 at at CCDB Hope Foundation, Savar, Dhaka. First day for Church evangelical activities and Second day for social development programmes of the COB. The discussions of both days were around specific themes. To give more focus on the points of the thematic discussions the participants sat in small groups and put forward recommendations to meet the needs and finding scopes and roles of Church and partners.
A two-day long consultation of Church of Bangladesh took place from 31 May – 1 June, 2013 at Savar Conference Center of COB. The Theme of the consultation was “Education for enriching the life”, and Principal Rina Das, Martin Luther College, Dhaka spoke on the Theme. A total of 20 teachers from major schools of COB attended the consultation. Moderator of COB, Bishop Paul S Sarker and the Synod Education Coordinator Mrs. Janet Sarker were present the total period of the consultation.