Labaran labarai na Yuni 4, 2008

“Bikin Cika Shekaru 300 na Cocin ’Yan’uwa a 2008”

"Ina jiran Ubangiji, kuma a cikin maganarsa ina sa zuciya" (Zabura 130:5).

LABARAI

1) Cocin ’yan’uwa na ci gaba da raguwar yawan membobin kowace shekara.
2) Shugaban taron shekara-shekara yana ziyartar 'yan uwa a Najeriya.
3) Gundumar Virlina ta haɗu da taƙaitaccen bayanin aboki na kotu akan kadarorin coci.
4) United Church of Canada ta amince da Gather 'Truund Curriculum.
5) Rage yawan kuɗin da ake samu na kyauta na sadaka.
6) Yan'uwa: Tunawa, ma'aikata, amsa bala'i, da sauransu.

BAYANAI

7) Rahoton 'Portrait of a People' akan Bayanan 'Yan'uwa na 2006.

Abubuwa masu yawa

8) BVS na shirin bikin cika shekaru 60 na Satumba.
9) Shekaru 300 da gutsuttsura.

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1) Cocin ’yan’uwa na ci gaba da raguwar yawan membobin kowace shekara.

Da farko labari mai daɗi: Memba a cikin Cocin ’yan’uwa ya ragu da ɗan ƙaramin kuɗi a cikin 2007 cewa a cikin ko wanne cikin shekaru biyu da suka gabata, an sami mambobi 1,562 zuwa jimlar 125,964 a Amurka da Puerto Rico. 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.

2) Shugaban taron shekara-shekara yana ziyartar 'yan uwa a Najeriya.

James Beckwith, mai gudanar da taron shekara-shekara na Cocin na 2008, ya dawo ne a ranar 12 ga watan Mayu daga ziyarar kwanaki 12 da ya yi a Najeriya inda ya ziyarci Ekklesiyar Yan'uwa a Najeriya (EYN–The Church of the Brothers in Nigeria).

A Najeriya, Beckwith ya yi tafiya tare da David da Judith Whitten. David Whitten yana aiki a matsayin kodinetan mishan na Cocin 'yan'uwa a Najeriya. Kungiyar ta ziyarci tare da wasu manyan shugabanni a EYN. A halin yanzu, Filibus Gwama ya zama shugaban EYN, Samuel Shinggu a matsayin mataimakin shugaban kasa, da Jinatu Wamdeo a matsayin babban sakatare.

Beckwith ya je wurare dabam-dabam masu muhimmanci ga ’yan’uwa a Nijeriya, ciki har da babban birnin ƙasar, Abuja, inda EYN ke da babban taro; hedkwatar EYN da Kulp Bible College da Comprehensive Secondary School kusa da birnin Mubi; birnin Jos, da kuma Kwalejin Tauhidi na Arewacin Najeriya; da kuma kauyen Garkida, inda shekaru da dama da suka gabata aka gudanar da ibadar ’yan’uwa na farko a Najeriya a waje a karkashin bishiyar tamarind. Beckwith ya gabatar da kalandar Anniversary na 300th, mai ladabi na Gundumar Michigan, a duk inda ya je a Najeriya, in ji shi.

A Garkida, ya sami zarafin yin wa’azi a cocin da ya yi bauta sa’ad da yake matashi, sa’ad da iyayensa suka yi hidima a matsayin masu wa’azi na Cocin ’yan’uwa a ƙasashen waje. Ya yi magana da wani mai fassara a kan Yohanna 12 da jigon Bikin Ciki na 300. “Hakan na musamman ne,” in ji shi, ya daɗa cewa ya yi amfani da lokaci tare da ’ya’yan ikilisiya a azuzuwan makarantar Lahadi. Ya kuma yi wa'azi a Abuja. Kowace hidima ta ɗauki kimanin sa’o’i uku da rabi, kuma ɗaruruwan mutane sun halarci taron, kuma ikilisiyar da ke Abuja ta kai kusan 1,000.

A Najeriya, Beckwith ya sami wata majami'a da ke fuskantar "gagarumin gwagwarmaya tare da matsalar kudi," gami da babban bambanci tsakanin membobin da ke da arziki da waɗanda ke cikin talauci. Ikilisiya kuma tana fuskantar aikin shawo kan kabilanci–EYN ya hada da membobin kabilu daban-daban – da kuma batutuwan da suka shafi ilimi da tarbiyyar shugabannin coci.

A Kulp Bible College, ya ji cewa makarantar na iya sanya kaso ga adadin daliban, saboda EYN tana da ƙwararrun fastoci fiye da matsayi da ake da su. Aikin tiyoloji “dama ce mai ban sha’awa” a Najeriya, in ji Beckwith. Haka kuma, an yi watanni da coci ba ta iya biyan albashin malamai. Kuma karuwar adadin wuraren wa'azi a EYN shima yana raguwa, in ji Beckwith. Fastoci da masu koyar da Littafi Mai Tsarki a Najeriya dole ne su kasance “a cikinta domin aikin Ubangiji,” in ji shi.

EYN na tsara wani tsari na bai daya don biyan fastoci albashi, maimakon a rika biyan majami’un limaman cocin su kai tsaye, domin yin aiki a kan banbance-banbance tsakanin majami’u masu wadata da talakawa. Ikilisiya na fatan sanya shirin ya yi aiki ta hanyar sabon buƙatu na kashi 70 na sadaukarwa ga ikilisiyoyin da za a ba da su ga ƙungiyar. Wani fata na shirin shine samun damar ba da kudaden fansho ga fastoci da suka yi ritaya. EYN kuma tana aiwatar da wani kyakkyawan shirin raya makiyaya, in ji Beckwith.

A lokacin da Beckwith yake kasar, shugabannin EYN sun shiga wani babban taro na shugabannin addini a arewacin Najeriya, wanda aka gudanar a Maiduguri inda rikicin addini tsakanin Musulmi da Kirista ya yi sanadiyar mutuwar mutane da dama tare da ruguza coci-coci. Shugaban da mataimakin shugaban EYN sun halarci tare da sarakunan musulmi da shugabannin sauran kungiyoyin kiristoci.

A cikin ziyarar da ma'aikatan Ofishin Jakadancin 21, wata hukumar turawa ta turawa da ta yi aiki tare da EYN da Cocin Brothers na tsawon shekaru, Beckwith ya ji wani kyakkyawan rahoto game da aikin hakar rijiyoyi masu amfani da hasken rana da tsarin bututun ruwa na hedkwatar EYN. Ofishin Jakadancin 21 yana aiki tare da Ilimin Tauhidi ta Tsawaitawa da aikin HIV/AIDS.

Ya kuma shiga ziyarar fastoci da ma’aikatan mishan suka kai don yin addu’a don lafiya ga wani jariri mai suna Mikah – sabon yaron wani majami’a wanda ya rasa manyan ‘ya’yansa biyar saboda rashin lafiya.

Beckwith ya ce: "Yana da mahimmanci a ci gaba da dangata ta 'yan uwantaka da EYN." "Ina sha'awar rayuwa da bangaskiya da suke da ita a tsakiyar mutuwa akai-akai." Kyakkyawan mutunta juna ne, in ji shi. Sakatare Janar na EYN Jinatu Wamdeo “ta yi addu’a a gare ni da kuma Cocin ’yan’uwa, cewa za mu sami salama, tsabta, ci gaba, da kuma iko.”

3) Gundumar Virlina ta haɗu da taƙaitaccen bayanin aboki na kotu akan kadarorin coci.

Cocin of the Brother's Virlina District ya haɗu da taƙaitaccen “abokin kotu” tare da wasu ƙungiyoyi, game da hukunce-hukuncen kotu na baya-bayan nan a Virginia da suka shafi mallakar kadarorin coci. Hukumar gundumar ta yanke shawarar shiga cikin taƙaitaccen bayanin aboki na kotu a taronta na ranar 10 ga Mayu. Majalisar Cocin Virginia ta gabatar da batun ga gundumar.

Ana amfani da dokar lokacin yakin basasa don ba da damar gungun Episcopalians masu ra'ayin mazan jiya su bar Diocese na Episcopal na Virginia tare da dukiya ta miliyoyin daloli, in ji rahoton "Washington Times". Majami’ar Diocese, da Cocin Episcopal, da wasu darikoki da gundumomi na Kirista suna jayayya cewa dokar ta sabawa kundin tsarin mulki. Rarraba tsakanin Episcopalians game da zaben Bishop gay a fili, da ikon Littafi Mai-Tsarki, kuma waɗanda ke barin Cocin Episcopal suna shiga sabuwar ƙungiyar Anglican.

An fara muhawarar baka a cikin shari'ar a ranar 28 ga Mayu a gidan kotun Fairfax County. Ba a sa ran kammala shari'ar na wani lokaci ba.

Idan kotun gundumar Fairfax ta amince da dokar zamanin yakin basasa, za ta kafa tarihi ga daukacin jihar Virginia, a cewar ministan zartarwa na gundumar Virlina David Shumate. Wasu Cocin guda uku na gundumomin Yan'uwa tare da ikilisiyoyi a gundumar Virginia-Shenandoah, Gundumar Kudu maso Gabas, da Gundumar Mid-Atlantic - za a shafa tare da Virlina.

Shari’ar na iya yin tasiri ga ikilisiyoyin ikilisiyoyi na ’yan’uwa da ke Virginia domin a ƙarƙashin tsarin mulkin Cocin ’yan’uwa, ana riƙe dukiyar ikilisiyoyin a cikin aminci don amfani da fa’idar ɗarikar.

The Annual Conference Polity Manual ya ce, “Idan har an daina amfani da kadarorin bisa ga tanadin da aka gindaya [a cikin kundin tsarin mulki], ko kuma a lokuta da aka rufe ikilisiya ko kuma aka watsar da kadarorin, taron gunduma zai iya, bisa shawarar hukumar gundumomi, ku tabbatar da mallakar mallakar kuma ku kasance da irin wannan hannun jari ga hukumar gundumomi, a cikin amana, ga gundumar.”

Idan ikilisiya ta yi ƙoƙari ta bar ƙungiyar, tsarin mulkin Cocin ’yan’uwa ya ce: “Duk wata dukiya da za ta mallaka za ta kasance a hannun hukumar gundumar kuma ana iya riƙe ta don abin da aka keɓe ko sayar da shi ko kuma a jefar da ita a hanyar da ta dace. hukumar gunduma, bisa ga ra'ayinta, na iya yin umarni."

Sai dai dokar ta Virginia da ake magana a kai, wadda aka zartar a shekara ta 1867 bayan yakin basasa, a lokacin da ake samun sabani a cikin majami'u kan bauta da al'amuran Arewa-Kudu, ta yi nuni da cewa "lokacin da wata mazhaba ko ikilisiya ta rabu, yawancin za su iya kada kuri'a kan wanene ikilisiyar da ke ci gaba. kuma wane ne ya mallaki dukiyar,” in ji Cathy Huffman, shugabar Hukumar gundumar Virlina. Ta ce: “Ba shakka ba haka muka yi ba” a cikin Cocin ’yan’uwa.

"Dokar da ake magana a kai a cikin shari'o'in a cikin gundumar Fairfax ta ce ba kome ba ne abin da tsarin cocin yake," in ji Shumate.

Takaitaccen abokin kotun ya yi ikirarin cewa dokar ba ta bisa ka'ida ba domin ta shigar da jihar cikin dangantakar coci, in ji Huffman. Idan an kiyaye doka, "jihar za ta iya yanke shawarar menene cocin," in ji ta. "Ƙungiyoyin da suka gabatar da taƙaitaccen bayanin suna da ban sha'awa sosai, amma suna da ra'ayin cewa cocin ya fi ikilisiya girma."

"Ba zai taɓa jin daɗi ba idan kuna fada a cikin iyali," in ji Huffman. Rikici na baya-bayan nan a wata ikilisiya a gundumar Virlina ya kasance “misali mai haske” na matsalolin da Cocin Episcopal ke fuskanta, in ji ta. Sa’ad da yawancin ikilisiyar suka tsai da shawarar barin, rukunin da ke ci gaba da dangantaka da Cocin ’yan’uwa sun fahimci gunduma, ko da yake ƙanƙanta ce. Hukumar gundumar ta “yi taka-tsan-tsan don tabbatar da cewa muna bin tsarin mulkin Coci na ’yan’uwa,” wanda ya sa shari’ar kotun Episcopal ta daɗa damun kai, in ji Huffman.

Huffman ya jaddada cewa, a yayin da suke yanke shawarar shiga tattaunawar aminin kotun, a kalla wani memba ya tunatar da hukumar gunduma cewa manufarsu ba ita ce nuna cewa kotuna ce hanyar da za ta bi a rigingimun cocin ba.

A cikin 1970s sa’ad da Cocin ’yan’uwa da ke gundumar Botetourt, Va., ta yi ƙoƙari ta bar ƙungiyar, kotuna sun ba da kadarorin ga gunduma domin tsarin mulkin Cocin ’yan’uwa ya fito fili sosai, in ji Shumate. Ya taƙaita siyasa ta Church of the Brothers a taƙaice: “Idan ka bar coci, ka bar kome a baya.”

4) United Church of Canada ta amince da Gather 'Truund Curriculum.

Cocin United Church of Canada ya zama sabon mai amfani da haɗin gwiwar manhaja na Gather 'Round Curriculum, yana ambaton darajarta ga ikilisiyoyin da ke son haɗawa da iyalai. Tattauna 'Zagaye: Ji da Rarraba Bisharar Allah shiri ne na 'Yan'uwa Press da Cibiyar Bugawa ta Mennonite. Tsarin karatun yana hidima ga yara, matasa, da iyaye da masu kulawa.

“Iyali, da kuma iyaye musamman, suna taka muhimmiyar rawa wajen haɓaka ruhaniya da kafa bangaskiyar ’ya’yansu,” in ji Amy Crawford, mai tsara shirye-shiryen yara, matasa, da matasa. "Iyayen Cocin United da ikilisiyoyi za su yaba da Talkabout, muhimmin sashi na Gather 'Round, wanda ke ba iyaye hanyoyi masu kyau don yin magana game da bangaskiya tare da yaransu, kuma yana taimaka wa ikilisiyoyi da iyalai su kasance da haɗin kai."

Crawford ya kuma bayyana yadda Tattauna 'Round ke taimaka wa yara su fuskanci labarun Littafi Mai Tsarki. “Labarun Littafi Mai Tsarki sun yi magana da ƙarfi game da wanene Allah da yadda Allah yake alaƙa da mutane da kuma dukan halitta. Tattauna 'Round yana ba wa yara dama don saduwa da labarun Littafi Mai Tsarki, fassara ma'anarsu, da yin haɗin gwiwa don su iya rayuwa da labarin a duniya."

Masu amfani da haɗin gwiwar ƙungiyoyin ƙungiyoyi ne waɗanda suka amince da tsarin koyarwa ga ikilisiyoyinsu a hukumance, ajiyar kaya da haɓaka kayan a matsayin ɗaya daga cikin tsarin karatunsu. Sauran Masu amfani da Haɗin gwiwar Zagaye su ne Mennonite Brothers, Cocin Moravian a Amurka, da Ikilisiyar United Church of Christ. Har ila yau, an ba da shawarar Gather 'Round zuwa ikilisiyoyin Cocin Presbyterian Cumberland, 'Yan'uwa a cikin Kristi, Taron Hadin Kan Abokai, da yankunan Ikilisiyar Episcopal.

Don ƙarin je zuwa http://www.gatherround.org/ ko kuma a kira Brethren Press a 800-441-3712.

5) Rage yawan kuɗin da ake samu na kyauta na sadaka.

Kwamitin Majalisar Dokokin Amirka kan Gift Annuities ya zaɓe don rage shawarar da aka ba da shawarar ba da kyauta na shekara-shekara, wanda zai fara aiki a ranar 1 ga Yuli, a cewar Brethren Benefit Trust (BBT). Rage ƙimar kuɗin tallafin sadaka da aka jinkirta, mai tasiri ga Yuli 1, ACGA kuma ta ba da shawarar a bita ta shekara-shekara.

Waɗannan ƙimar suna da alaƙa da shekarun abubuwan da ake amfani da su kuma an bayyana su a cikin kaso na adadin kyauta na asali, kuma suna ayyana adadin kuɗin da ake biya ga masu tara kuɗi kowace shekara. BBT tana ba da shawara ga waɗanda ke shirin ba da kyauta na kyauta don yin aiki kafin canjin kuɗin ya fara aiki a ranar 1 ga Yuli.

Steve Mason, darektan gidauniyar Brethren Foundation ya ce: “An ƙididdige adadin kuɗin kuɗin shekara na kyauta na kyauta a lokacin da aka ba da shi, kuma ba za a iya canza wannan adadin ba da zarar an kafa shi.” "Saboda biyan kuɗi na iya tsawaita tsawon shekaru masu yawa, amfanin yin aiki kafin canjin ƙimar ya kamata a yi la'akari da shi."

BBT ya ba da kwatankwacin ƙimar halin yanzu zuwa sabbin ƙima da aka ba da shawarar, don kwatanta yadda canjin zai iya shafar abubuwan da suka ci abinci. A halin yanzu, mai biyan kuɗi na "Kyautata Kyauta ta Rayuwa ɗaya" yana da shekaru 60 yana karɓar kashi 5.7 cikin ɗari, amma ga kuɗin da aka bayar bayan canjin kuɗin mutum zai karɓi kashi 5.5 kawai. A shekaru 75, a karkashin rates na yanzu, annuitant yana karɓar kashi 7.1, amma ga kudaden da aka bayar bayan Yuli 1 sabon adadin zai zama kashi 6.7. Masu biyan kuɗi na "Kyautata Kyauta ta Rayuwa Biyu" a shekaru 60 a halin yanzu suna karɓar kashi 5.4 cikin 5.2, amma ga kuɗin da aka bayar a sabon ƙimar za su sami kashi XNUMX kawai.

"Don sanya wannan a cikin hangen nesa, kyautar kyautar kyautar dala $10,000 da aka bayar kafin 1 ga Yuli ga mai shekaru 60 zai samar da biyan kuɗin shekara na $570. Amma, da a ce an bayar da irin wannan kyautar ta sadaka bayan 30 ga Yuni, biyan kuɗin zai zama $550 kawai, "in ji Mason.

Waɗanda suke yin la’akari da kuɗaɗen kyautar kyauta ya kamata su tuntuɓi ƙungiyar agaji inda za a ba da kuɗin. Don ƙarin bayani tuntuɓi Steve Mason, Daraktan Gidauniyar Yan'uwa, a smason_bbt@brethren.org ko 888-311-6530.

6) Yan'uwa: Tunawa, ma'aikata, amsa bala'i, da sauransu.

• John Rodney Davis, mai shekaru 80, ya mutu a ranar 25 ga Mayu. Ya kasance tsohon darektan ayyukan sa kai na Cocin of the Brother General Board 1960-64, lokacin da yake gudanar da hidimar sa kai na 'yan'uwa (BVS) da shirye-shiryen Sabis na Alternative, kuma ya taimaka wajen sanyawa. Ma'aikatan Sabis na Yan'uwa. A baya ya kasance darektan horarwa na BVS a 1951. Ya kasance memba na sa kai na rukunin BVS na farko a 1948 kuma ya yi aiki a matsayin "mai safarar zaman lafiya" a yankunan Kudu maso Gabas da Gabas na darikar. Ayyukansa na Jami'ar La Verne (ULV) a California sun shafe shekaru talatin, kuma sun haɗa da matsayi a sashen hulɗar jama'a da kuma matsayin farfesa a fannin ilimin halin dan Adam. A lokacin aikinsa a ULV ya kuma haɓaka kuma ya jagoranci LV CAPA, shirin digiri na gaggawa don manya masu aiki. Ya yi aikin ilimin halin mutum mai zaman kansa kuma ya yi aiki a Tri City Mental Health a Pomona, Calif., A matsayin masanin ilimin halayyar dan adam. Ya kuma koyar a Cibiyar Fielding da ke Santa Barbara, Calif., A cikin shirye-shiryen digiri na gaba a cikin ilimin halin dan Adam. An haife shi a Wenatchee, Wash., A cikin 1927, kuma ya sami digiri daga Kwalejin La Verne da Jami'ar Arewa maso Yamma a Evanston, Ill. Davis ya kasance mai son zaman lafiya, kuma a lokacin yakin Koriya ya yi aiki a madadin sabis a asibitin Bethany a Chicago. Ya yi tafiya a cikin 1963 na 'Yancin Jama'a, kuma ya shaida Martin Luther King Jr. ya ba da "I Have A Dream." Ya kasance memba na rayuwa na Cocin La Verne na 'Yan'uwa. Ya rasu ya bar matarsa ​​na shekaru 58, Dorothy (Brandt) Davis–wanda kuma yana cikin rukunin BVS na farko; da ‘ya’yansu hudu da jikoki 13. An gudanar da taron tunawa da ranar 28 ga Mayu a Cocin La Verne na ’yan’uwa. Ana iya ba da gudummawar tunawa ga Amincin Duniya ko zuwa Cocin La Verne.
• Susan Chapman ta yi murabus a matsayin shugabar shirye-shirye na cikakken lokaci na Camp Bethel, bayan kammala shirin zangon bazara na wannan bazara. Camp Bethel shiri ne na gundumar Virlina, da ke kusa da Fincastle, Va. Chapman ya yi hidima na shekaru bakwai. A lokacin aikinta, halartar sansanonin bazara ya karu da kashi 48 cikin ɗari. Ta fara karatun digiri na farko na aikin jinya a wannan kaka.
• Kendra Flory ta fara horon bazara tare da Ƙungiyar Masu Kula da 'Yan'uwa (ABC). Ita daliba ce a Bethany Theological Seminary. A cikin hidimar sa kai da ta gabata a Cocin of the Brothers General Offices a Elgin, Ill., Ta yi hidima a Sabis na bazara tare da Brotheran Jarida a 2000, kuma a matsayin mai ba da agajin shirin a 2001, da farko tare da mujallar “Manzon Allah” sannan tare da ABC. Kwanan nan ta kasance editan wucin gadi na “Caregiving” na ABC duk kwata-kwata, yayin da kuma take hidimar horarwa a Cocin Farko na Yan’uwa a Wichita, Kan.
• Sabuwar Kungiyar Ba da Shawarwari ta Yan'uwa an shirya za ta gana da Ofishin Jakadancin Duniya a ranar 16 ga Yuni a Cibiyar Matasa a Kwalejin Elizabethtown (Pa.). Bayan wannan taron, ƙungiyar ta shirya ci gaba da zama don ƙarin tarurruka tare da Stan Noffsinger, babban sakatare na Cocin of the Brothers General Board, da R. Jan Thompson, babban darektan riko na Ƙungiyoyin Ofishin Jakadancin Duniya. Ƙungiya za ta duba yawan ma'aikata na yanzu don manufa, za ta taimaka wajen samar da bayanin matsayi ga babban darektan Ƙungiyoyin Ƙungiyoyin Ƙungiyoyin Ƙungiyoyin Duniya, kuma za su karbi rahotanni daga ayyukan 'yan'uwa a duniya. Membobin kungiyar sune Bob Kettering, Dale Minnich, James F. Myer, Louise Baldwin Rieman, Roger Schrock, Carol Spicher Waggy, da Earl K. Ziegler.
• Somerset (Pa.) Cocin ’Yan’uwa ta sami kyauta ta musamman daga wani memba na coci, in ji wani rahoto a jaridar “Daily American”. Warren Enfield ya ba da $500,000 don taimakawa wajen biyan jinginar gida na sabon ginin coci. “Na yi wani abu da zan tuna da shi har tsawon rayuwata, kuma abin farin ciki ne sosai,” ya gaya wa jaridar. Je zuwa www.dailyamerican.com/articles/2008/05/18/news/news/news936.txt don cikakken labarin.
• Gundumar Pacific ta Kudu maso Yamma tana neman addu’a ga Cocin Principe de Paz na ’Yan’uwa da ke Santa Ana, Calif., wadda aka yi wa fashi a daren ranar 29 ga Mayu. An sace yawancin na’urorin sauti na cocin da kayan kade-kade. Gundumar ta bukaci bayanan addu'a da tallafi da za a aika ta wurin fasto Mercedes Zapata, Fasto mai wayar da kan al'umma Richard Zapata, ko ministan rayuwar iyali Becky Zapata, a Principe de Paz Church of the Brothers, 502 S. Ross St., Santa Ana, CA 92701 -5598.
• Za a gudanar da Cibiyar Littafi Mai Tsarki ta Brotheran'uwa ta Shekara-shekara na 35 ga Yuli 21-25 a harabar Kwalejin Elizabethtown (Pa.). Don ƙarin bayani, tuntuɓi Cibiyar Albarkatun Gundumar Virlina a virlinasecretary@gmail.com don cikakken bayanin kwas ɗin ƙasida, malamai, farashi, da bayanan tallafin karatu. Dole ne a kammala aikin aikace-aikacen zuwa ranar 25 ga Yuni.
• York Center Church of the Brothers a Lombard, rashin lafiya .; Cocin Beacon Heights na 'Yan'uwa a Fort Wayne, Ind.; da Masu Maraba na Cocin Turkiyya Creek na Brothers a Nappanee, Ind., kwanan nan sun shiga Ƙungiyar Ƙungiyoyin Ƙungiyoyin Ƙwararrun Ƙwararrun Ƙwararrun Ƙwararrun Ƙwararru na LGBT (BMC). Cibiyar sadarwar ta haɗa da al'ummomin da ke tabbatar da madigo, 'yan luwaɗi, bisexual, da masu canza jinsi. Sanarwar da BMC ta fitar ta kara da cewa dukkan ikilisiyoyi uku suna da dadadden tarihi na shigar da al’umma da kuma jajircewa wajen tabbatar da zaman lafiya da ma’aikatun shari’a.
• A lokacin bukukuwan farawa, Kwalejin Manchester ta ba da digiri na biyu na girmamawa, ga Donald Miller, farfesa na farko na Bethany Theological Seminary wanda kuma ya yi hidima ga Cocin Brothers a matsayin babban sakatare; kuma zuwa Loren Finnell, wanda ya kammala karatun digiri na 1964 kuma ya kafa wata kungiya mai zaman kanta ta New York City wacce ke neman kudade don ayyukan sabis na zamantakewa a Latin Amurka - shi ne kwanan nan wanda ya karɓi lambar yabo ta Sergeant Shriver Award daga Peace Corps.
• Kwamitin yunwa na duniya na gundumar Virlina ya sanar da cikakken jadawalin abubuwan da zasu faru a wannan shekara. Kungiyar ta tara kudade da wayar da kan matsalolin yunwa a duniya. Abubuwan da suka faru sun haɗa da hawan keke a ranar 7 ga Yuni, farawa a Cocin Antakiya na 'Yan'uwa; wani taron gayya a ranar 8 ga Yuni a Cocin Antakiya; Ranar Nishaɗin Iyali akan Yuli 19 a Monte Vista Acres; da Yunwar Auction, taron “taron tuta” na ƙungiyar a ranar 9 ga Agusta a Cocin Antakiya. Wannan zai zama Hawan Bike na Yunwa na Shekara-shekara na 19 na Duniya. Tuntuɓi Ron Jamison a 540-721-2361 don ƙarin game da hawan. Je zuwa http://www.worldhungerauction.org/ don ƙarin bayani game da hidimar Kwamitin Yunwar Duniya.
• Kungiyoyin samar da zaman lafiya na Kirista (CPT) sun sanar da tawagarta ta farko zuwa yankin Kurdawa na Iraki, a ranar 31 ga Yuli zuwa Agusta. 14. CPT ta kasance a Iraki tun Oktoba 2002, na farko a Baghdad, kuma tun Nuwamba 2006 a Kurdawa arewacin kasar. Don ƙarin bayani ko don nema, tuntuɓi CPT a wakilai@cpt.org ko duba http://www.cpt.org/. Dole ne a karɓi aikace-aikacen nan da 9 ga Yuni.
• New Community Project, wata Coci na 'yan'uwa da ke da alaƙa, ta sanar da ƙarin $12,000 a matsayin tallafi ga kudancin Sudan, musamman don ci gaban mata da sake dazuzzuka da aka mayar da hankali kan al'ummomin Maridi da Nimule. "Wannan ya kawo sama da $30,000 tallafinmu a 2008 zuwa yanzu," in ji darekta David Radcliff. Har ila yau, aikin ya sanya matasa shida a Sudan a wannan bazarar, don yin aiki a matsayin "ma'aikatan haɗin gwiwa" a makarantu da kuma aikin sake dazuzzuka. Masu aikin sa kai su ne Marie Bowman na Bally, Pa.; Jana Burtner da Emily Young na Harrisonburg, Va., waɗanda membobi ne na Cocin Farko na 'Yan'uwa a Harrisonburg; Sarah Durnbaugh na Indianapolis, Ind., Kuma memba na Northview Church of the Brother; Julie Sears na Gabashin Sandwich, Mass.; da Larisa Zehr na Pittsburgh, Pa. Jeka http://www.newcommunityproject.org/ don ƙarin.
• Hadaddiyar kungiyar ma'aikatan Immokalee (CIW) da Burger King Corp sun sanar da shirin yin aiki tare don inganta albashi da yanayin aiki ga ma'aikatan gona da ke girbi tumatir a Florida. Daga cikin wasu yarjejeniyoyin, Burger King Corp. za ta biya karin dinari na fam a kowace fam na tumatir Florida, don kara albashi ga ma'aikatan gona. Don ƙarfafa haɗin gwiwar manoma a cikin wannan ƙarin shirin albashi, Burger King Corp. zai ba da kuɗin ƙarin harajin biyan albashi da farashin gudanarwa da masu noman suka jawo, ko jimillar centi 1.5 a kowace fam na tumatir. "Idan masana'antar tumatur ta Florida za ta kasance mai dorewa na dogon lokaci, dole ne ta zama mafi alhakin zamantakewa. Mu, tare da sauran shugabannin masana'antu, mun gane cewa masu girbin tumatir na Florida suna buƙatar ƙarin albashi, yanayin aiki, da mutunta aikin da suke yi, "in ji mai magana da yawun Burger King Corp. Yum! Brands da McDonald's sun riga sun yi irin wannan yarjejeniya. Majalisar Ikklisiya ta ƙasa da ƙungiyoyin Kirista da yawa sun sami goyon bayan yaƙin neman zaɓe na CIW. "Wannan haɗin gwiwar ma'aikatan gona sun yi aiki tuƙuru a cikin wannan yunƙurin kuma muna murna tare da su a cikin wannan babbar nasara," in ji Phil Jones, darektan 'yan'uwa Shaida/Washington Office kuma mamba a hukumar Ma'aikatar Gona ta Ƙasa. A taron shekara-shekara na 2008, Ikilisiyar 'Yan'uwa za ta magance ƙarin al'amurra ga ma'aikatan gona ta hanyar ƙuduri game da bautar zamani, kuma Baldemar Valesquez, shugaban Kwamitin Tsara Ayyuka na Aikin Noma, zai yi magana a Dinner Partnerships of Mission Global Mission Partnerships.
• Madalyn Metzger na Cocin Elkhart Valley na 'Yan'uwa kuma manajan sadarwa na Mennonite Mutual Aid, an karɓe shi da lambar yabo ta "Forty Under 40" daga ɗakunan kasuwanci na yankin Michiana, "Gaskiya Elkhart," "South Bend Tribune," da Bethel. Kwalejin. Kyautar ta karrama ƙwararrun matasa 40 waɗanda ba su kai shekaru 40 ba don gudummawar ƙwararru a wuraren aiki, sadaukar da kai ga sabis na al'umma, da aikin sa kai. Metzger kuma memba ne na kwamitin gudanarwa na Zaman Lafiya a Duniya kuma ya kammala karatun digiri na 1999 a Kwalejin Manchester.
• "Springs of Living Water: Christ-Centered Church Renewal," Littafin da memba na Church of the Brother David S. Young ya buga, Herald Press ne ya buga. Matashi fasto ne kuma shugaban sabunta coci wanda ya yi amfani da misalin da aka bayyana a cikin littafin wajen jagorantar ikilisiyoyin da gundumomi don ɗaukar sabuntawar coci. Littafin yana aiki azaman jagora ne don taimakawa coci ta haɓaka rayuwarta ta ruhaniya, horar da shugabanni, da ƙoƙarin mai da hankali a cikin ma'aikatun da ke bayyana ainihinta da kiranta, ta hanyar ƙungiyar sabuntawa da aka horar don shigar da ikilisiya duka.

7) Rahoton 'Portrait of a People' akan Bayanan 'Yan'uwa na 2006.

"Portrait of a People: The Church of the Brothers at 300" na Carl Desportes Bowman yanzu yana samuwa daga Brotheran Jarida. Littafin ya ba da rahoton sakamakon Bayanan Membobin ’Yan’uwa na 2006, babban binciken zamantakewa na Church of the Brothers. Bowman ya kasance farfesa a Kwalejin Bridgewater (Va.), kuma a baya ya gudanar da bincike kan darikar a 1985. Shi ne kuma marubucin "Brethren Society: The Cultural Transformation of a Peculiar People."

A cikin “Portrait of a People,” masu karatu za su gano sabbin bayanai game da imani da ayyukan ’yan’uwa, waɗanda bayanin ’yan jarida na iya ba da mamaki, don Allah, ko ma ban haushi. Binciken ya shafi imanin ’yan’uwa game da Allah da kuma lahira; halaye game da aikin soja, zubar da ciki, da siyasa; ayyuka a fannin nazarin Littafi Mai Tsarki da kai, bauta, da liyafar ƙauna; da dai sauransu.

Yi odar littafin akan $15.95 da jigilar kaya da sarrafawa, ko odar fakitin kwafi biyar don ƙaramin rukunin rukunin akan $60 da jigilar kaya da sarrafawa; Kira 800-441-3712.

8) BVS na shirin bikin cika shekaru 60 na Satumba.

Sabis na Sa-kai na 'Yan'uwa (BVS) yana shirin bikin cika shekaru 60 na Satumba a ranar 26-28 ga Satumba a Cibiyar Hidima ta 'Yan'uwa a New Windsor, Md. Taken zai kasance, "Imani a Aiki: BVS Jiya, Yau, Gobe."

Jadawalin bikin ya fara ne da abincin dare a ranar Juma'a, 26 ga Satumba, sannan a bude maraba da ibada. Maraice na BVS na yanzu zai karbi bakuncin Unit 282 na yanzu. A ranar Asabar, Satumba 27, abubuwan da suka faru sun ci gaba da ci gaba da jerin abubuwan da suka faru a kan batutuwa irin su "Sabis na 'Yan'uwa a Turai," "Rayuwar Labari: Shekaru 60 na BVS," da kuma "The Art of Acompaniment and Volunteering." A yammacin ranar 27 ga Satumba, za a yi tarukan bayar da labari da rabawa ta sassan BVS daga shekarun 1940-50, 1960-70s, da 1980-2000s. Wani liyafa na yamma zai ƙunshi babban mai magana Jeff Carter, Fasto na Manassas (Va.) Church of the Brothers.

A ranar 28 ga Satumba, hidimar rufewa za ta ƙunshi adireshin aikawa ta Stan Noffsinger, babban sakatare na Hukumar, da keɓewa na BVS Unit 282. Za a sami rajistar kan layi nan ba da jimawa ba a http://www.brethren.org/.

9) Shekaru 300 da gutsuttsura.

(An karɓi waɗannan abubuwan don amsa gayyatar da aka yi wa masu karatu su gabatar da bukukuwan cika shekaru 2008 na cocin a shekara ta 300. E-mail cobnews@brethren.org don gabatar da gagarumin bukukuwan tunawa da wasu cibiyoyi da suka shafi Cocin ’yan’uwa.)

• Cocin Spring Creek Church of the Brothers a Hershey, Pa., tana bikin shekara ta 160 tare da bikin cika shekaru 300 na Cocin 'yan'uwa. Dukansu biyu za a yi su ne a cikin ibada a ranar 3 ga Agusta.
• A watan Mayu ne aka yi bikin cika shekaru 100 da fara gina ginin cocin ‘yan uwa da ke Valsad na kasar Indiya, inda mutane dari da dama suka halarta, in ji Asha Solanky, wadda ba da jimawa ba ta dawo daga ziyarar kasar Indiya inda ta halarci bikin. An soma tattaunawa game da gina coci a can a shekara ta 1906. ’Yan’uwa sun yanke shawarar gina cocin bulo da gudummawar kuɗi ta farko daga DL Miller. An fara ginin a cikin 1908 kuma babban kakan Solanky Valji Govindji Solanky nee Mistry (Masassaƙi) ne ya kula da shi. Shi dan kwangila ne kuma ya yi gini da yawa don aikin, kuma ya kula da gyara da kula da cocin Valsad a tsawon rayuwarsa. "Babban biki ne wanda ya fara da hidimar ibada a ranar Lahadi, 12 ga Mayu, kuma ya kai ga shirin kade-kade a yammacin Litinin," in ji ta. “Dukan ajujuwa na Makarantar Littafi Mai Tsarki na Hutu suna da nasu ayyukan, kamar yadda ƙungiyar mata, ƙungiyar mawaƙa, da kuma dattawa suka yi. Babban baƙon ita ce Anandiben Satvedi Solomon, ɗan’uwa mafi girma a ikilisiyar Valsad da kuma ’yan’uwa Indiya a shekara 94. Ita ’yar ƙwaya ce kuma mai kaifi da ta rubuta kuma ta karanta labarinta na Cocin Brothers.”
• Herman Kauffman, ministan zartarwa na gundumar Arewacin Indiana, ya ba da gudummawar wannan bayanin: “Duk da cewa ba daidai ba ne cibiyar ’yan’uwa, Chicago Cubs ta ƙarshe ta ci gasar Duniya a cikin 1908 a cikin shekara ta Brethren Bicentennial. Wannan ya sa shekarar 2008 ta zama bikin cika shekaru 100 na Gasar Cin Kofin Duniya ta Ƙarshe. Wataƙila Cubs za su iya ba da gudummawa ga shekara ta Tricentennial kamar yadda suka yi ga shekara ta Bicentennial!”

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