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Cocin ’Yan’uwa ya samo asali ne tun fiye da shekaru 300 zuwa 1708. Turai ta ƙarni na sha takwas lokaci ne na ikon gwamnati mai ƙarfi ga coci da rashin haƙuri ga bambancin addini. Duk da haka, akwai masu adawa da addini da suka yi imani da imaninsu duk da barazanar tsanantawa. Wasu daga cikin wadannan ’yan adawa sun samu mafaka a garin Schwarzenau na kasar Jamus. Daga cikinsu har da Alexander Mack, wani mai miƙewa wanda Pietism da Anabaptism suka rinjaye shi.
A watan Agusta 1708 maza biyar da mata uku sun taru a Kogin Eder a Schwarzenau don yin baftisma, haramun ne tun da dukansu sun yi baftisma a matsayin jarirai. Sun fahimci wannan baftisma alama ce ta waje ta sabon bangaskiyarsu kuma a matsayin sadaukarwa ga rayuwa wannan bangaskiya cikin al'umma. Wani memba na ƙungiyar da ba a bayyana ba ya fara yi wa Mack baftisma. Shi kuma ya yi wa sauran bakwai baftisma. Wannan sabon rukunin ya kira kansu “’yan’uwa” kawai.
Ko da yake ’Yan’uwa na farko sun yi tarayya da wasu ’yan Furotesta da yawa, batutuwa da yawa sun raba su da majami’un gwamnati. Dogaro da Sabon Alkawari a matsayin ja-gora, waɗannan maza da mata sun gaskata cewa Yesu ya yi nufin mabiyansa rayuwa dabam-dabam—ta bisa aikin salama, rayuwa ta zahiri da tausayi, da kuma neman gaskiya tare. Sun kuma gaya wa wasu game da imaninsu da ƙwazo, suna aika masu bishara zuwa wasu sassa na Jamus, Switzerland, da Netherlands.
Tafiya zuwa Amurka
Saboda tsananin tsanantawa da matsalolin tattalin arziki, ’yan’uwa sun fara ƙaura zuwa Arewacin Amirka a shekara ta 1719 a ƙarƙashin jagorancin Peter Becker. Yawancin ’Yan’uwa sun bar Turai a shekara ta 1740, har da Mack, wanda ya kawo rukuni a shekara ta 1729. An kafa ikilisiya ta farko a Sabuwar Duniya a Germantown, Pa., a shekara ta 1723. Ba da daɗewa ba bayan an kafa ta, ikilisiyar Germantown ta aika da masu wa’azi a ƙasashen waje zuwa ƙauyuka da ke kewaye. Philadelphia. Waɗannan masu wa’azi a ƙasashen waje sun yi wa’azi, sun yi baftisma, kuma sun kafa sababbin ikilisiyoyi.
Ƙaunar su, gaskiya, da aiki tuƙuru sun jawo sabbin membobi zuwa cikin ƙungiyar bangaskiya ta ’yan’uwa a cikin 1700s. An kafa sababbin ikilisiyoyi a New Jersey, Maryland, da Virginia. Tare da alkawarin ƙasa mara tsada, sun ƙaura zuwa Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, da Missouri bayan Yaƙin Juyin Juya Hali. A tsakiyar 1800s 'yan'uwa sun zauna a Kansas da Iowa kuma a ƙarshe West Coast.
Fadada fadin Nahiyar da sauye-sauyen da aka samu sakamakon juyin juya halin masana'antu ya haifar da kunci da rikici a tsakanin 'yan'uwa. A farkon shekarun 1880 wani babban rikici ya faru wanda ya haifar da rabuwa ta hanyoyi uku. Babban reshe bayan schism shine ’yan’uwa Baptist na Jamus, waɗanda suka canza suna zuwa Cocin ’yan’uwa a 1908.
Karni na 20 da bayan haka
A cikin ƙarni na 20, wuraren mayar da hankali na Cocin ’yan’uwa sun haɗa da ilmantar da matasanta ta hanyar haɓaka makarantun Lahadi, zango, da shirye-shiryen matasa; yana mai da hankali kan hidima, ayyuka, da samar da zaman lafiya; ƙara yawan shigar da ecumenical; da haɓaka sabon tsarin ɗarika.
’Yan’uwa sun fara haɗin gwiwar mishan a Indiya, Sin, Najeriya, Ecuador, Sudan, Koriya ta Kudu, da kuma—a kwanan nan—a Brazil da Jamhuriyar Dominican. Ma'aikatan Ofishin Jakadancin da Ma'aikatan Sa-kai na 'Yan'uwa ana sanya su a ko'ina cikin Amurka da fiye da ƙasashe goma a duniya.
A ƙarni na 21, Cocin ’Yan’uwa tana da kusan mutane 100,000 a cikin ikilisiyoyi 1,000 a Amurka da Puerto Rico; kusan mutane miliyan daya da ke halartar hidima a Ekklesiyar Yan'uwa a Nigeria (Church of the Brother in Nigeria); da ƙarin ɗaruruwa a Indiya, Brazil, Jamhuriyar Dominican, da Haiti.
Yayin da lokatai suka canza, Cocin ’Yan’uwa a yau tana riƙe da ainihin imani na ’yan’uwa na farko kuma suna neman samun sababbin hanyoyin ci gaba da aikin Yesu a duniya.