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188real and definite stumbling block to total unity of thepeople.The wounds caused by this problem need to be healedby spiritual power. The K.C.C. has been able to help thereconciliation process between the opposing groups forbetter and healthier understandiny of the problem.It isno~, of course, the direct problem of the K.C.C.; it is theproblem of the Kuki people as awhole, which indirectlyaffects the church.Challenges for the FutureThe Kuki Christian Churr.h is the fruit of God'smighty works among the Kukis.It is a unique history in thesense that the pagan, head-hunter Kukis of the nineteenthcentury have become Christians in such large numbers in thetwentieth century that the whole tribe is now at leastnominally Christian.What made them Christians, or why did they becomeChristians? Dr. T. Lunkim gives three reasons for thetribals of Manipur becoming Christians which reasons applyperfectly to the Kuki situation also. They are: 1) peacea~ong the warLing tribes was needed for their survival, 2)education was a force that attracted the people, 3) theydesired freedom from the fear of evil spirits and ~emons.These reasons are no doubt true, but they would be too rationalwithout considering the more important spiritualaspect.The Kukis became Christians because that is whatGod in Christ had destined them to be a t a certain point oftime in their history.And the beginning of the twentieth