(Yuni 5, 2007) — Kasancewar Memba a Cocin ’Yan’uwa ya ragu da 1,814 a shekara ta 2006, bisa ga rahotannin da ƙungiyar ta samu. Wannan yana wakiltar raguwar 1.4 bisa dari daga shekarar da ta gabata, kusan daidai da raguwar 2005. Jimlar kasancewa memba a Amurka da Puerto Rico yanzu ya kai 127,526.
Kasancewar memba na ɗarika yana kan koma baya tun farkon shekarun 1960, kamar yadda ya kasance ga yawancin ƙungiyoyin "masu layi" a cikin Amurka. Ana tattara kididdigar kowace shekara ta “Book of the Brothers Yearbook” da Brothers Press ta buga. Adadin bai hada da membobin Cocin 'yan'uwa a wasu kasashe da suka hada da Najeriya, Brazil, Indiya, Jamhuriyar Dominican, da Haiti ba. Cocin Najeriya ita ce kungiyar 'yan'uwa mafi girma a duniya.
Goma sha shida daga cikin gundumomi 23 na Amurka sun ba da rahoton raguwar yawan mambobi a bara, yayin da bakwai aka ruwaito sun karu. Wasu dabi'un sun koma baya daga shekarar da ta gabata: Gundumar Pacific ta Kudu maso Yamma, wacce ta sami raguwa mafi girma a cikin 2005, ta sami karuwa mafi girma a cikin 2006, mambobi 84, ko kusan kashi 3.5. A zahiri, yawancin ci gaban ya kasance yamma da Kogin Mississippi, tare da gundumomin Idaho, Kudancin Filaye, da filayen Yamma kuma suna ba da rahoton karuwar yawan membobin. Illinois da Wisconsin, Shenandoah, da kudu maso gabas su ne sauran gundumomin da ke ba da rahoton nasarori. Gundumar Shenandoah tana da mafi girman haɓakar lambobi, sama da membobi 89.
A halin yanzu, Gundumar Kudu maso Gabas ta Atlantika - wacce ta sami karuwa mafi girma a cikin 2005 - ta ba da rahoton asarar kashi mafi girma a cikin 2006, ƙasa da kashi 8.9 cikin ɗari (raguwar membobi 178). Gundumomi biyar sun sami raguwa aƙalla kashi uku. Gundumar Kudancin Ohio ta ba da rahoton mafi girman raguwar lambobi, tare da asarar mambobi 371.
Atlantic Northeast ya kasance yanki mafi girma, tare da mambobi 14,860 a karshen 2006, sai Shenandoah da Virlina. Gundumar Missouri/Arkansas ita ce mafi ƙanƙantar ɗarikar, tare da jimlar 549.
Yawan cikakken ikilisiyoyin sun ragu da biyar, zuwa 1,010, kuma adadin abokan hulɗa ya ragu daga 42 zuwa 39. Duk da haka, dashen dashen coci ya haifar da karuwar sabbin ayyuka guda biyar, na jimlar 15.
Jimlar yawan adadin yawan halartar ibadar mako-mako ya ragu da 1,572 daga shekarar da ta gabata, zuwa 63,571. Kuma adadin masu yin baftisma ya kasance mafi ƙanƙanta a cikin shekarun da suka gabata, tare da rahoton 1,657 kawai.
Bayar da aka cakude, tare da ba da gudummawa ga Babban Asusun Ma’aikatun Majalisar da Aminci a Duniya ya ɗan tashi kaɗan, yayin da ba da gudummawa ga Makarantar Koyar da Tauhidi ta Bethany da Ƙungiyar Masu Kula da ’Yan’uwa ta ragu. Matsakaicin bayarwa ga kowane mutum $41.
Ƙididdigar “Littafin Shekara” da aka sabunta sun dogara ne akan bayanan da ikilisiyoyin suka bayar waɗanda ke juya rahotannin ƙididdiga. A cikin 2005, kashi 68.7 cikin ɗari na ikilisiyoyin sun ba da rahoto, daidaitaccen martani ga shekarun baya; Kashi 69 cikin 2004 an ruwaito a XNUMX.
Littafin “Yearbook” ya kuma ba da jerin bayanan tuntuɓar mutane da ƙididdiga na ikilisiyoyi, gundumomi, da hukumomin ƙungiyar, da kuma ƙungiyoyin ’yan’uwa da ke da alaƙa. Ana samun bugu na 2007 daga Brotheran Jarida; don yin oda kira 800-441-3712.
–Walt Wiltschek editan Mujallar “Manzo” na Cocin ’yan’uwa ne.