"Bikin cikar Cocin 'yan'uwa shekara 300 a shekara ta 2008"
(Mayu 28, 2008) — Da farko albishir: Kasancewa cikin Cocin ’yan’uwa ya ragu da ɗan ƙaramin kuɗi a shekara ta 2007 cewa a cikin kowane cikin shekaru biyu da suka shige, an sami mambobi 1,562 zuwa jimlar 125,964 a Amurka da Puerto. Riko. Kuma ƙaramar gundumar, Missouri/Arkansas, ta sami riba mafi girma, ta ƙara yawan sabbin mambobi shida don girma zuwa 555 ( sama da kashi 1.09).
Wasu gundumomi uku – Shenandoah (raba na membobi 46), Middle Pennsylvania (31), da West Marva (22) – sun ba da rahoton ƙananan nasarori a cikin shekarar da ta gabata.
Gabaɗayan raguwar kashi 1.22, duk da haka, yana ci gaba da kasancewa a farkon shekarun 1960. Yawancin ƙungiyoyin “mainline” a cikin Amurka sun sami irin wannan yanayin.
An ƙididdige ƙididdiga daga bayanan da “Church of the Brethren Yearbook” ke tattarawa kowace shekara ta ’yan jarida. Alkaluman ba su hada da membobin Cocin 'yan'uwa a wasu kasashe ba, ciki har da Najeriya, Jamhuriyar Dominican, Haiti, Brazil, da Indiya.
Daga cikin sauran gundumomi 19 na Amurka, asarar mafi girma ta zo a wasu wurare a Pennsylvania da yamma. Western Plains yana da mafi girman raguwar lambobi, tare da asarar mambobi 307. Sauran gundumomi biyar – Yammacin Pennsylvania (ƙasa 182), Oregon/Washington (174), Illinois/Wisconsin (172), Atlantic Northeast (149), da Kudancin Pennsylvania (121) – sun sami asarar tara lambobi uku.
A matsayin kaso, raguwar Oregon/Washington ita ce mafi girma, a kashi 13.4, sannan wasu gundumomi uku na yamma suka biyo baya: Western Plains (asara mai kashi 8.53), Idaho (kashi 6.92), da filayen Arewa (3.11%).
Atlantic Northeast, wanda ke rufe gabashin Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York City, da Maine, ita ce gundumomi mafi girma a cikin darikar, tare da mambobi 14,711 a karshen 2007, sai gundumar Shenandoah da gundumar Virlina.
Adadin ikilisiyoyi, abokan tarayya, da ayyuka sun yi ƙasa sosai a ƙarshen shekara ta 2007. Ikilisiyoyi sun ragu da huɗu, zuwa 1,006; zumunci ya ragu daga 39 zuwa 37; da ayyuka daga 15 zuwa 12. Jimillar adadin waɗanda suka halarci ibada na mako-mako ya faɗi da kusan 2,500 daga shekarar da ta gabata, zuwa 61,125, kuma adadin masu baftisma a 2007 ya ragu sosai, zuwa 1,380.
Amma a wani labarin mai dadi, an bayar da rahoton bayar da tallafi ga yawancin hukumomi da shirye-shirye, tare da matsakaicin bayar da kowane mutum $43. Daga cikin manyan kuɗaɗen, Asusun Babban Ma'aikatun Babban Kwamitin ne kawai ya ɗan sami raguwa a ainihin bayarwa; gudummawa ga Bethany Theological Seminary, A Duniya Zaman Lafiya, Ƙungiyar Masu Kula da 'Yan'uwa, da kudade na musamman duk sun karu.
Ƙididdigar “Littafin Shekara” da aka sabunta sun dogara ne akan bayanan da ikilisiyoyin suka bayar waɗanda ke juya rahotannin ƙididdiga. A shekara ta 2007, kashi 64.5 cikin ɗari na ikilisiyoyin sun ba da rahoto, ƙasa kaɗan fiye da na yawancin shekarun baya; 68.7 bisa dari ya ruwaito a cikin 2006.
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 2008 daga Brotheran Jarida; don yin oda kira 800-441-3712.
–Walt Wiltschek editan Mujallar “Manzo” na Cocin ’yan’uwa ne.
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Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford, darektan sabis na labarai na Cocin of the Brother General Board ne ya samar da Cocin of the Brothers Newsline. Za a iya sake buga labaran labarai idan an ambaci Newsline a matsayin tushen. Don karɓar Layin Labarai ta e-mail je zuwa http://listserver.emountain.net/mailman/listinfo/newsline. Aika labarai ga editan a cobnews@brethren.org. Don ƙarin labarai da fasali na Ikilisiya na ’yan’uwa, ku yi rajista ga mujallar “Manzo”; kira 800-323-8039 ext. 247.