Its headquarters, Kohima, is the second station of the American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society in Nagaland, India.
However, in 1887, Mrs. Hattie and Dr. Sidney W. Rivenburg transferred from Molung, Assam, Nagaland to Kohima to restart the work.
[3] As of 2023, the Council has 111 Churches with about 42,880 baptized members and 57 ordained ministers and 118 licentiate pastors.
The Council has 6 Departments- Women, Youth, Men, Christian Education & Literature, Missions, Property & Socio-Economic Development.
[citation needed] The ABCC celebrated its 125 years[5] of ministry at Kohima in February 2010.
During the four-day celebration (3 to 7 February 2010), the Council donated $8,744[6] towards Haiti earthquake relief.
The Angami Baptist Youth Department (ABYD) was officially established in 1932 with the missionary Rev.
The objective of ABYD is to help and equip the Youth members to share their faith with others as well as to develop second line leadership for evangelism.
Currently, the department is emphasizing on Sports Ministry and True Love Waits (TLW) seminars in order to reach the youth members even outside the Church.
Towards this, there are three (3) institutions: Bible Translation works happened to be one of the priorities of the American missionaries.
The long expected Tenyidie Bible of the Angami Nagas was finally released and presented on 20 December 1970, with a huge congregation of thanksgiving, held at Kohima Local Baptist Church.