"Bikin cikar Cocin 'yan'uwa shekara 300 a shekara ta 2008"
(Mayu 6, 2008) — Makarantar tauhidi ta Bethany ta yi bikin somawarta na 103 a ranar 3 ga Mayu. Biki biyu ne aka yi bikin. An gudanar da bikin bayar da digiri a Bethany's Nicarry Chapel da ke harabar jami'ar Richmond, Ind. An gudanar da bikin baje kolin jama'a a Cocin Richmond na 'yan'uwa.
Dalibai goma sha shida sun sami digiri ko satifiket. Dalibai goma sha ɗaya sun sami babban digiri na allahntaka, ɗaya tare da mai da hankali kan karatun zaman lafiya. Dalibai biyu sun sami digiri na biyu na fasaha a digirin tauhidi, uku kuma sun sami takardar shedar karatun tauhidi.
Steven L. Longenecker, farfesa kuma shugaban sashen tarihi da kimiyyar siyasa a Kwalejin Bridgewater (Va.), ya yi magana a bikin ba da digiri. A cikin adireshinsa mai suna "The Useful Dunker Past," ya ba da labarin Howard Sollenberger, wanda nan da nan bayan kammala karatunsa daga Kwalejin Manchester a 1938 ya tilasta wa Cocin of the Brothers General Mission Board ta tura shi Sin, yana ba da taimako ga Sinawa a lokacin yakin. da Japan. "Hakika, Allah ya kira 'yan kaɗan ne kawai don yin lalata da haɗari a nahiya mai nisa ko a yankin yaƙi," in ji Longenecker, "amma Allah yana kiran kowa zuwa aminci."
Dawn Ottoni Wilhelm, mataimakin farfesa na wa’azi da kuma bauta a Bethany, shi ne mai jawabin hidimar ibadar la’asar. A cikin saƙonta, “Inda kogin ya tafi,” bisa ga Ezekiyel 47:1-12, ta kuma yi maganar Bikin Cika Shekaru 300 na ’Yan’uwa. “Lokacin da mutane takwas suka shiga cikin Kogin Eder shekaru 300 da suka gabata, sun ƙidaya da kyau don ba da rayukansu ga Yesu Kristi, na ba da gidajensu da dukiyoyinsu don taimakon juna, na ƙaura zuwa cikin ruwa da ba su da ruwa. Amma ba su san inda ruwan baftisma na Eder zai kai su ba,” in ji Wilhelm. "Za ku iya ƙidaya kuɗin duk yadda kuke so, amma ba za ku taɓa sanin inda ruwan zai kai ku ba."
Waɗanda suka sami babban digiri na allahntaka sun haɗa da David Beebe na Cocin Bear Creek na Brothers, Dayton, Ohio; Nan Lynn Alley Erbaugh na Lower Miami Church of the Brother, Dayton; Stephen Carl Hershberger na Roaring Spring (Pa.) Cocin 'Yan'uwa; Elizabeth Jacqueline Keller na Richmond (Ind.) Church of the Brother; Jason Michael Kreighbaum na Nettle Creek Church of the Brother, Hagerstown, Ind.; Matthew Eugene McKimmy na Cocin Makiyayi mai kyau na 'Yan'uwa, Blacksburg, Va.; V. Christina Singh na Cocin Richmond; Karl Edward Stone na Cocin Richmond; Paula Ziegler Ulrich na Cocin Richmond; da Douglas Eugene Osborne Veal na Cocin Richmond. Brandon Grady na Madison Avenue Church of the Brothers a York, Pa., ya sami babban digiri na allahntaka tare da jaddada karatun zaman lafiya.
Karɓar babban malamin fasaha a digirin tauhidi sune Marla Bieber Abe na Cocin Farko na 'Yan'uwa, Akron, Ohio; da Susan Marie Ross na Churubusco (Ind.) United Methodist Church.
Takaddun shaida na nasara a cikin karatun tauhidi sun tafi Mildred F. Baker na Diehls Cross Roads Church of the Brothers, Martinsburg, Pa.; Nicholas Edward Beam na Pleasant Hill (Ohio) Church of the Brother; da Jerry M. Sales of Peoria (Ill.) Church of the Brothers.
Nan Erbaugh ta sami bambanci don aikinta na ilimi a cikin karatun Littafi Mai Tsarki. Matthew McKimmy ya sami bambanci don aikinsa a cikin karatun hidima. Karl Stone ya sami bambanci don aikinsa a cikin nazarin Littafi Mai Tsarki da nazarin hidima. Paula Ulrich ta sami bambanci don aikinta a karatun tauhidi da na tarihi, da kuma karatun hidima.
Ƙoƙarin ɗaliban da suka kammala digiri na gaba sun haɗa da sana'o'i a ma'aikatar makiyaya da ikilisiya da kuma matsayin ma'aikatan ƙungiyoyin ilimi da masu zaman kansu.
–Marcia Shetler darektan hulda da jama'a na Bethany Theological Seminary.
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