“Bikin Cika Shekaru 300 na Cocin ’Yan’uwa a 2008”
“Yaya kyawawan ƙafafun manzo ne a kan duwatsu… mai shelar ceto” (Ishaya 52:7a).
SABBIN NUFIN
1) Ofishin Jakadancin Alive 2008 yana murna da aikin manufa na baya da na yanzu.
2) Ana gudanar da tarurruka akan manufa Haiti.
3) Babban Sakatare ya kira sabon rukunin shawarwari don shirin manufa.
SANARWA MUTUM
4) Reid yayi murabus a matsayin shugaban ilimi a Bethany Theological Seminary.
5) Jagorancin Ƙungiyar Taimakon Mutual don canja hannu.
6) Shari McCabe don yin aiki tare da Fellowship of Brethren Homes.
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1) Ofishin Jakadancin Alive 2008 yana murna da aikin manufa na baya da na yanzu.
Taron Mission Alive na Afrilu 4-6 a Bridgewater, Va., Biki ne na ayyukan mishan na baya da na yanzu a cikin Cocin ’yan’uwa. Fiye da mutane 125 ne suka halarta. (Je zuwa www.brethren.org/pjournal/2008/MissionAlive don mujallar hoto daga taron.)
Majami’ar Babban Hukumar ‘Yan’uwa ta dauki nauyin gudanar da taron tare da goyon bayan kungiyar Revival Fellowship da Brethren World Missions, Cocin Bridgewater Church of the Brothers ne ya dauki nauyin taron. Tawagar tsare-tsaren sun hada da tsohon darektan zartarwa na Hadin gwiwar Ofishin Jakadancin Duniya Mervin Keeney da kwamitin gudanarwa na Linetta SA Ballew, darektan shirye-shirye na Camp Brethren Woods; Carl Brubaker, abokin limamin cocin Midway Church of the Brother a Lebanon, Pa.; Carol Spicher Waggy, tsohon ma'aikacin mishan kuma memba na Rock Run Church of the Brother a Goshen, Ind.; da Larry Dentler, limamin Cocin Bermudian Church of the Brother a Gabashin Berlin, Pa.
Taron ya kasance haɗaɗɗiyar bayanai masu tada hankali da kuma tarurrukan bita masu dacewa, waɗanda aka gudanar tare ta lokutan ibada. Taron ya gudana cikin jerin jigogi: kiraye-kirayen Littafi Mai Tsarki zuwa ga manufa, bikin da ya gabata mai amfani, duban jagoranci don kawo sauyi, haɓaka ikilisiyoyi masu aminci, ƙalubalen da ke fuskantar Ikilisiya a cikin manufa, da haɓaka amintaccen makoma. Sau biyar na ibada an ƙirƙira su kuma daidaita su ta hanyar Tara Hornbacker, mataimakin farfesa na Ma'aikatar Formation a Bethany Theological Seminary, da Paul Roth, fasto na Linville Creek Church of the Brothers in Broadway, Va. Taron ya buɗe tare da bauta, kuma ya koma kai tsaye zuwa cikin bincike na tushen Littafi Mai Tsarki don manufa. Stephen Breck Reid, shugaban ilimi na Bethany Seminary, gabatar da gabatarwa ta Eugene Roop, tsohon shugaban makarantar hauza kuma farfesa na Tsohon Alkawari, da Dorothy Jean Weaver, masanin Sabon Alkawari daga Jami'ar Mennonite ta Gabas.
Roop ya bayyana kiran Allah a cikin Tsohon Alkawari, yana mai cewa duk da cewa irin wannan kiran ba shi da aminci ko jin daɗi, duk da haka ana samun albarka a wurin. Ya kuma bayyana Zabura a matsayin addu'o'in da ke magana game da kwarewar ɗan adam, kuma ya bukaci masu halarta su gane cewa mutanen da ke cikin manufa mutane ne cikin addu'a. Kiran a raba bishara, almajirtar da dukan al’ummai, an ba da suna a fili a matsayin babban jigo a Sabon Alkawari ta Weaver, wanda ya kwatanta Allah a matsayin Allah mai aikowa kuma marubucin manufa. Galen Hackman, tsohon ɗan mishan kuma fasto na Ephrata (Pa.) Church of the Brother, sa'an nan ya raba "katin rahoton" na yadda 'yan'uwa suka amsa da waɗannan kira zuwa mishan. Bikin na baya mai albarka ya haɗa da gabatarwa ta Ted & Trent; Rebecca Baile Crouse, tsohuwar mai kula da mishan a Jamhuriyar Dominican kuma memba na kungiyar fastoci a Warrensburg (Mo.) Cocin 'Yan'uwa; da kuma kyakkyawan bita na multimedia na aikin manufa ta David Sollenberger da A. Mack (Larry Glick ya buga). Wakilai daga Cocin Brethren da Cocin Dunkard Brethren suma sun ba da wasu labarin manufa. Paul ER Mundey, babban Fasto a Cocin Frederick (Md.) Church of the Brother, ya jagoranci wani zama game da jagoranci na cocin mishan, kuma rahotanni uku sun fito daga mutanen da ke rayuwa a wannan hangen nesa a cikin yankunansu.
Tattaunawar ƙalubalen da cocin ke fuskanta shi ne jagoran taron shekara-shekara Jim Beckwith da Noffsinger. Tare da ƙalubalen, an ba da wasu labarai masu ƙarfafawa, kamar yadda ayyuka na yau da kullun a gida da waje suke almajirantarwa da zurfafa almajirai, da kuma yadda Cocin ’yan’uwa ta kai ziyara Koriya ta Arewa ya haifar da gayyatar ’yan’uwa su shiga wata sabuwar jami’a a can. .
Har ila yau, taron ya gano wuraren da za a sauya tsarin shirin ƙungiyar. An shigar da wani zama na musamman a cikin jadawalin taron bayan sanarwar murabus din ma'aikatan manufa. Zaman ya ba da lokacin ganawa da babban sakatare Stan Noffsinger da ƙungiyar jagoranci na Babban Hukumar.
An kammala taron da duban gaba. Wani jawabi mai karfi da Mano Rumalshah, bishop na Diocese na Peshawar a Cocin Pakistan ya yi, ya binciko halin danniya na cocin Kirista a waccan kasar ta Musulmi. Wani faifan bidiyo, “Nauyi na Bangaskiya da Taimakon Pakistan,” ya nuna mummunan yanayi ga Kiristoci da yawa, waɗanda su ne mafi ƙanƙanta a ƙasar kuma galibi ba su da aikin yi. Jama'a a Pakistan har yanzu suna bakin cikin kashe kiristoci 17 na baya-bayan nan a cocin St. Dominic. Rumalshah ya yi maganar godiya sosai ga Allah da yake shan wahala tare da mutane. Ya ce akwai matsananciyar matsin lamba don zama musulmi, kuma a kullum ana neman kiristoci su musulunta.
Samuel Dali, wani bako daga Ekklesiyar Yan'uwa a Najeriya (EYN–Cocin Brethren in Nigeria) ya ce ya gano kalubalen Pakistan na rayuwa da Musulmai masu tsattsauran ra'ayi. Ya bayyana yadda aka lalata majami'u na EYN a birnin Kano da ke arewacin Najeriya, a lokacin rikicin musulmi da kiristoci. Tambayar taron ta bayyana sarai: Menene muke yi don mu nuna goyon bayanmu ga Kiristocin da suke shan wahala? An ba da shawarar cewa suna buƙatar fiye da juyayinmu: idan mutum ya sha wahala, dukanmu muna shan wahala, kuma dole ne mu yi aiki tare.
Ofishin Jakadancin Alive 2008 ya ƙare da bauta, wanda Robert Alley, fasto na ikilisiyar Bridgewater, ya jagoranta, wanda ya yi wa’azi a kan jigon, “Ga Duk Duniya.” Waɗanda suka halarci taron sun ji kira mai ƙarfi na ci gaba da manufa. Wani abin da aka faɗa daga Emil Brunner, da kuma martanin da wani mai magana ya faɗa, ya taƙaita wannan jin: “An yi nufin coci don manufa kamar yadda ake nufi da ƙonewa.” Ka gafarta mana don ɗaukar lokaci mai tsawo don yanke shawarar yadda za a tara itace.–Enten Eller darekta ne na Ilimin Rarrabawa da Sadarwar Lantarki na Makarantar Koyarwar Tiyoloji ta Bethany, kuma ya yi aiki a ƙungiyar tantancewa don ƙaddamar da manufar Sudan. Mary Eller da Louise Rieman sun ba da gudummawa ga wannan rahoton.
2) Ana gudanar da tarurruka akan manufa Haiti.
Shirye-shirye na gaba sun yi nisa ga mishan na Cocin ’Yan’uwa da ke Haiti, wanda ya kai majami’u uku da wuraren wa’azi shida, tare da kiyasin mutane 500-600 za su halarta. Kwamitin Ba da Shawarwari na Ofishin Jakadancin Haiti ya gana na sa'o'i shida a l'Eglise des Freres (Church of the Brother) a Miami, Fla., A ranar 12 ga Afrilu don haɓaka manyan shawarwari, shawarwari masu tsayi don ci gaba da hidima. A wani taron wayar tarho da aka yi a ranar 21 ga Afrilu, mambobin kwamitin sun yi aiki tare da Babban Jami'an Hukumar don fara aiwatar da sabbin tsare-tsare.
Mahimmin hangen nesa mai zurfi shine aikin Haiti ya kai alamar shekaru biyar. Merle Crouse, shugabar taron, ta ce, “Muna ganin ci gaba mai ban mamaki wajen isa ga sabbin mutane da kuma bunkasa jagoranci. Mun yi imanin cewa manufa a Haiti yana da kyakkyawan farawa. Matakin na shekaru biyar masu zuwa yana farawa, kuma zai buƙaci hikima mai yawa, horo da dabarun ciyar da sabuwar cocin Haiti gaba ta hanyar lafiya."
Kwamitin ba da shawara ya haɗa da Ludovic St. Fleur, fasto, da Mary Ridores na l'Eglise des Freres; Jeff Boshart, tsohon ma'aikatan bunkasa tattalin arzikin Jamhuriyar Dominican; Jonathan Cadette da Wayne Sutton na Cocin Farko na 'Yan'uwa a Miami; Merle Crouse, tsohon ma'aikacin mishan kuma ma'aikacin Janar Janar mai ritaya; da R. Jan Thompson, babban darektan riko na Babban Darakta na Haɗin gwiwar Ofishin Jakadancin Duniya.
Shawarwari daga taron na ranar 12 ga Afrilu sun yi magana game da matsalar karancin abinci a Haiti da kuma bukatar shirin noma na dogon lokaci. Kwamitin ya ci gaba da ganin bukatar sayen filaye; ikon mallakar dukiya da kafa shirye-shiryen sabis na zamantakewa sun zama dole don ƙungiyar da za ta ba da cikakken matsayin doka ta gwamnatin Haiti. Sauran batutuwan sun haɗa da ba da shawara ga Babban Hukumar ba da lasisi ga ma'aikatar shugabannin ikilisiya tara. Kungiyar ta kuma bukaci taimakon kudi don taron horas da jagoranci a Haiti na shekarar 2008, bayan nasarar da aka samu a bara.
A cikin kiran taron na Afrilu 21, mambobin kwamitin sun gana da babban sakatare Stan Noffsinger da Thompson don fara aiwatar da shawarwarin. An sami ci gaba a kan batutuwa masu zuwa:
Matsalar abinci a Haiti a halin yanzu. Za a tuntuɓi abokan haɗin gwiwar Ecumenical don raba martani game da rikicin, idan zai yiwu ta hanyar Cocin Haiti na ikilisiyoyin ’yan’uwa. Mutane a Haiti suna mutuwa saboda yunwa, in ji St. Fleur. "A matsayinmu na coci, muna sha'awar ba kawai ga rai na har abada ga mutanenmu ba, har ma da yadda suke rayuwa a yanzu," ya gaya wa kwamitin.
Taron Horon Jagoranci na 2008. Babban hukumar za ta ba da tallafin kuɗi don wani taron horar da jagoranci na biyu da za a yi a watan Agusta a Haiti. Bayan wani taron nasara na farko a bara, tare da mahalarta 61 da 42 sun kammala kwas, har ma da ƙarin masu rajista ana sa ran a wannan shekara. Masu tsarawa za su gayyaci mutanen da suka fito daga wasu shirye-shirye na ƙungiyoyin ƙetare don kasancewa cikin ƙungiyar masu koyarwa.
Ba da lasisin shugabannin jama'a. Babban ma’aikatan hukumar za su tantance matakai da hanyoyin yin hira da ’yan takara don ba da lasisi zuwa hidima a taron horar da jagoranci, suna tsammanin za a gabatar da su don amincewa ga sabuwar Cocin Ofishin Jakadancin ’yan’uwa da Hukumar Ma’aikatar a watan Oktoba.
Sayen dukiya. An tuhumi St. Fleur da aikin ci gaba da bincike kan wata kadara a babban birnin Port au Prince.
An shirya taron na gaba na Kwamitin Ba da Shawarwari na Ofishin Jakadancin Haiti a ranar 22 ga Nuwamba.
–Janis Pyle shine mai gudanarwa don haɗin gwiwar manufa don Abokan Hulɗa na Duniya.
3) Babban Sakatare ya kira sabon rukunin shawarwari don shirin manufa.
An kira sabuwar ƙungiya mai ba da shawara don taimakawa jagorar shirin manufofin ƙungiyar. Stan Noffsinger, babban sakatare na kungiyar ‘yan uwantaka, ya sanar da nadin kungiyar, wanda zai yi taron farko a ranar 2 ga Mayu ta hanyar kiran taro.
Waɗanda aka ambata cikin ƙungiyar masu ba da shawara su ne Bob Kettering, babban fasto na Lititz (Pa.) Church of the Brother; Dale Minnich, memba na Babban Hukumar kuma tsohon ma'aikaci; James F. Myer, mataimakin shugaban kungiyar Revival Fellowship; Louise Baldwin Rieman, babban limamin cocin Northview Church of the Brethren a Indianapolis, kuma memba na tawagar kima ga shirin Sudan; Carol Spicher Waggy, wadda ta kasance ma'aikaciyar mishan a Najeriya da Jamhuriyar Dominican; Earl K. Ziegler, minista mai ritaya kuma tsohon mai gudanarwa na taron shekara-shekara; da Mary Jo Flory-Steury, babban darektan ma'aikatar ga Babban Hukumar. R. Jan Thompson zai shiga cikin taron farko na kungiyar, a matsayin babban darektan riko na kungiyar hadin gwiwa ta Ofishin Jakadancin Duniya.
4) Reid yayi murabus a matsayin shugaban ilimi a Bethany Theological Seminary.
Stephen Breck Reid, shugaban ilimi a makarantar tauhidin tauhidi na Bethany, ya karɓi matsayi a matsayin farfesa na Littafi Mai Tsarki na Ibrananci a Makarantar tauhidin tauhidi ta George W. Truett a Waco, Texas, daga Agusta 1. Ya yi aiki a matsayinsa na yanzu a Seminary na Bethany tun 2003.
A matsayinsa na shugaban ilimi, Reid ya jagoranci aikin koyarwa na makarantar hauza da gudanar da kungiyar 'yan jarida ta 'yan'uwa. Ya ba da kulawa ga haɗin gwiwa tare da Cibiyar Ma'aikatar Susquehanna Valley da Cocin of the Brother General Board don ba da damar samun digiri na biyu da na karatun digiri ta hanyar darussa na waje da Kwalejin 'Yan'uwa don Jagorancin Minista.
Har ila yau, ya sauƙaƙa da yawa daga cikin aiwatar da bita na shekaru 10 tare da Ƙungiyar Makarantun Tauhidi da Hukumar Koyon Ilimi ta Arewa ta Tsakiya na Kwalejoji da Makarantun Sakandare, wanda aka kammala a 2006.
Reid ya sauke karatu daga Bethany a 1976 kuma ya sami Ph.D. daga Jami'ar Emory a Atlanta, Ga., A cikin 1981. Ya kasance farfesa na Nazarin Tsohon Alkawari a Kwalejin tauhidin tauhidi na Presbyterian na Austin kafin ya shiga makarantar Bethany. Ya kuma yi aiki a matsayin babban farfesa a Bethany na shekaru da yawa, kuma ya kasance memba na Kwamitin Amintattu daga 1990-98.
Shugaban Bethany Ruthann Knechel Johansen ya ce: "Abin takaici ne na amince da murabus din Stephen Breck Reid." "A matsayinsa na shugaban ilimi, Steve ya yi hidima ga baiwar Bethany, ɗalibai, da ɗarikar da ya fi dacewa ta wurin sha'awar wa'azi da koyarwa, musamman harshen Ibrananci da Littafi Mai-Tsarki na Ibrananci, sadaukarwarsa ga Bisharar Yesu Almasihu, da sadaukarwarsa ga Coci. na Yan'uwa. Ga baiwar ya kasance mai ba da jagoranci mai kyau ga koyarwar kirkire-kirkire da kuma ƙwaƙƙwaran mai goyan bayan binciken ƙwararrun malamai da wallafawa. Ya kasance muryar annabci a cikin darikar.”
5) Jagorancin Ƙungiyar Taimakon Mutual don canja hannu.
Shugaba Jean L. Hendricks ta sanar da cewa za ta yi ritaya daga kungiyar agaji ta Mutual Aid Association (MAA). Ta yi aiki a matsayin shugabar kamfanin inshora da ke da alaƙa da coci, wanda ke da hedkwata a Abilene, Kan., tun 2001.
Hukumar Gudanarwar Taimakon Mutual ta zaɓi Eric K. Lamer, shugaban MarketAide Services, Inc., don maye gurbin Hendricks. Lamer zai yi murabus daga mukaminsa tare da kamfanin sadarwa na tallace-tallace da ke Salina, Kan., domin ya zama shugaban MAA a ranar 1 ga Mayu.
Hendricks ya shiga MAA a 1995 a matsayin memba na hukumar kuma ya zama shugaban hukumar a shekara ta 2000. A lokacin aikinta, ta jagoranci MAA ta lokacin canji, ta taimaka wajen daidaita ka'idodin kamfanoni da yawa, kuma ta ci gaba da aikin kungiyar a cikin Cocin of Brothers. Hendricks yana da digiri daga McPherson (Kan.) College, Bethany Theological Seminary, da Jami'ar Kansas. Ta rike ƙwararrun ayyuka a matsayin malami, fasto, mai kula da ma'aikatar layuka, da darektan hulɗar coci. A cikin ritaya, ta sa ido don neman kiɗa da sauran abubuwan da suka dace, da kuma ba da lokaci tare da jikoki.
Lamer ya fara ne a MarketAide a cikin 1986 a matsayin samarwa da manajan zirga-zirga, kuma daga baya ya yi aiki a matsayin mai gudanarwa na asusun kuma mai kula da asusun, mataimakin shugaban tallace-tallace, kuma babban jami'in gudanarwa. Ya zama shugaban kasa a 1999 lokacin da wanda ya kafa MarketAide kuma shugaban farko ya yi ritaya. A cikin shekarun da ya yi a MarketAide, ya yi aiki a matsayin babban mai gudanar da asusu na manyan asusu. Ya shiga kai tsaye wajen samar da tsare-tsare na tallace-tallace da tallan tallace-tallace da tallan tallace-tallace kai tsaye, da kuma sarrafa kamfani da sabbin ci gaban kasuwanci. Bugu da kari, ya kula da samar da bidiyoyi na kamfanoni, tallan rediyo da talabijin, sa ido kan jagora da shirye-shiryen sa ido, nunin nunin kasuwanci, da sauran ayyuka.
A baya can, ya kasance manajan sadarwa na samfur na Premier Pneumatics, Inc. a Salina, kuma shine darektan hulda da jama'a na Cibiyar Fasaha ta Kansas, yanzu Jami'ar Jihar Kansas-Salina. Shi ɗan asalin Salina ne, kuma ya kammala karatunsa a 1979 daga Makarantar Aikin Jarida ta William Allen a Jami'ar Kansas. Ya taba zama memba na Kwamitin Taro da Yawon shakatawa na Salina, Memba na YMCA da Kwamitin Tallace-tallace, da Kwamitin Hulda da Jama'a/Tallafi na Musamman na Salina United Way, kuma tsohon shugaban kwamitin gudanarwa na gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Salina. Shi memba ne mai ƙwazo na Cocin Salina's Trinity Lutheran, inda a halin yanzu yake aiki a matsayin mataimakin babban darakta.
6) Shari McCabe don yin aiki tare da Fellowship of Brethren Homes.
Fellowship of Brethren Homes ya sanar da haɗin gwiwa tare da Shari McCabe, mai ritaya Shugaba na The Cedars na McPherson, Kan. Ta kasance mai aiki a cikin masana'antar kulawa na dogon lokaci fiye da shekaru 30, ciki har da shekaru a matsayin mai kula da ilimi, mai wallafa masana'antu, kiwon lafiya. shugaba, kuma babban jami'in gudanarwa.
McCabe ya shiga Don Fecher, darektan Fellowship of Brethren Homes, wanda aikinsa zai ci gaba da mayar da hankali kan harkokin kudi da inshora na aikin haɗin gwiwa. Ayyukan McCabe zai haɗa da ziyartar wuraren haɗin gwiwar 20-plus, shirya tarurrukan Forum na shekara-shekara, da kuma kiyaye hanyoyin sadarwa mai ƙarfi tsakanin shugabannin ƙungiyoyi. Ta yi tsammanin kafa kasancewar a cikin ayyuka daban-daban na babban cocin da kuma wakilcin zumunci a tarurruka da ayyuka da aka riga aka kafa, irin su Ƙungiyar Inshorar Rikicin Rikicin Ikilisiya, tarurrukan ƙawance tare da sauran ƙungiyoyi, da taron 'yan'uwa. Ana iya tuntubar ta a pmccabe3@cox.net ko 620-669-0840.
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