"Bikin cikar Cocin 'yan'uwa shekara 300 a shekara ta 2008"
(Jan. 15, 2008) — Cocin da ke Drive, wata shukar cocin New Life Christian Fellowship a Dutsen Pleasant, Mich., tana bikin cika shekara ɗaya na taron addu'a na farko na hukuma. Wannan taron addu'a, wanda aka yi a watan Janairu 2007, ya ƙunshi fasto Nate Polzin tare da Jeannie Kaufmen, Vanessa Palmer, da Jessica Herron, waɗanda suka tuka mota a cikin Saginaw, Mich., suna addu'a ga mabukata.
Polzin ya fara aikinsa a hidimar harabar a Cocin New Life Christian Fellowship. A wurin ya ja-goranci shirin “Tsaya cikin Rata,” wanda aka shirya don kusantar da ɗaliban koleji kusa da Kristi. Shirin ya fara ne a Jami'ar Michigan ta Tsakiya a Dutsen Pleasant, kuma ya ƙunshi nazarin Littafi Mai-Tsarki na mako-mako, ayyukan hidima, dare na wasanni, kide-kide, raye-raye, da wasan ƙwallon ƙafa. "Cibiyar koleji na ɗaya daga cikin filayen mishan mafi girma kuma mun ga ɗalibai da yawa sun zo wurin Kristi," in ji Polzin.
Bayan an kira shi zuwa hidima yayin aiki a Sabuwar Rayuwa, Polzin ya yi imanin cewa lokaci ya yi da za a kai ga sabuwar al'umma. "Na ji da gaske Allah ya fara magana da ni game da kafa sabuwar coci," in ji shi. Wannan kiran ya sami goyon bayan New Life Christian Fellowship da kuma Hukumar Gundumar Michigan. "Mutanen gundumar Michigan sun yi matukar farin ciki da Cocin da ke Drive da duk abin da Nate Polzin ke yi," in ji ministar zartarwar gundumar Marie Willoughby.
An zabi Saginaw ne a matsayin wurin da za a kafa sabuwar ma’aikatar saboda matsalolin tattalin arziki da al’umma ke fuskanta, wanda wani bangare na sana’ar kera motoci a yankin ya haddasa. Wurin yana kusa da Jami'ar Jihar Saginaw Valley, inda Polzin ya fara babi na biyu na Tsaya a cikin Gap, shi ma wani abu ne a cikin shawarar.
Polzin ya ce "Kamfanonin kera motoci suna raguwa a cikin tanki kuma al'umma na fama da tabarbarewar tattalin arziki." Tasirin masana'antar kera motoci a cikin al'umma yana ɗaya daga cikin manyan abubuwan da suka haifar da zabar sunan "Coci a cikin Drive" don sabon shuka. Sunan duka alama ce ta ci gaba mai bege ga al’umma, da kuma nuni ga Irmiya 29:7. A cewar sanarwar mishan na Coci a cikin Drive, sashin Irmiya ya ba da labarin yadda “Allah ya gaya wa mutanensa su nemi zaman lafiyar birnin da suke zaune a ciki, domin yayin da birnin ya ci gaba, su ma za su ci gaba.”
Polzin yana fatan kawo ma'anar al'umma da aminci ga 'yan ƙasa na Saginaw ta hanyar ƙirƙirar wurin da ba kawai wurin ibada ba, amma wurin abubuwan da ke faruwa da kuma hanyar da za ta ba da da'irar tallafi. A halin yanzu ana ajiye Cocin a Drive a cikin kantin kayan ado da aka gyara. Polzin yana fatan ƙara kwanan nan na gidan talabijin na USB da shiga Intanet zai ba da damar samun wuri mai daɗi da kuma ayyuka iri-iri a cikin mako.
Cocin da ke Drive kuma ya dogara da addu'a sosai. “Ƙungiyoyin Addu’a,” wani shiri ta gidan yanar gizon cocin, yana neman masu sa kai da suka sadaukar don yin addu’a a kullum don Ikilisiya cikin nasarar Drive. Polzin ya ci gaba da taken addu'a a cikin al'ummar Saginaw ta hanyar neman 'yan kasuwa don buƙatunsu na addu'a.
Dangane da Tsaye a Gap, ya kuma fadada, tare da babi na biyu a Jami'ar Jihar Saginaw Valley ya zana halartar ɗalibai 10-15 akai-akai don nazarin Littafi Mai Tsarki da taron addu'a. Polzin yana fatan samun makoma mai haske don ci gaba da hidimar harabar, kuma yana shirin taimakawa wajen samar da wasu babi tara a cibiyoyin da ke kewaye da su ciki har da makarantu kamar Jami'ar Jihar Michigan.
–Brethren Press intern Jamie Denlinger babban jami’in Ingilishi ne a Jami’ar Ohio, kuma ya kasance ƙwararren malami a cocin Prince of Peace Church of the Brothers a Kettering, Ohio.
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