By Wendy McFadden
An ba da lambar yabo ta Roof ga Cocin Oakton na 'Yan'uwa. An ba da kyautar ne a taron Hukumar Mishan da Ma’aikatar da aka yi a ranar Asabar, 2 ga Yuli, 2011. Ma’aikatan Ma’aikatar Kulawa suna ba da lambar yabo a kowace shekara ga ikilisiyar da ke samun ci gaba wajen maraba da nakasassu. Daga hagu: Shugaban hukumar Dale Minnich, babban sakatare Stan Noffsinger, wakilan Oakton Grady da Paula Mendenhall, Heidi Sumner na Cibiyar Nakasassu, da Jonathan Shively, babban darektan Ma'aikatun Rayuwa na Congregational Life.
A wani taron kwana-kwana da aka yi a ranar 2 ga watan Yuli, Cocin of the Brethren Mission and Ministry Board ya amince da wani kuduri kan kasar Afghanistan, da rage kasafin kudin shekarar 2012 sosai, da jin rahotanni da dama, tare da halartar ba da lambar yabo ta Budaddiyar Roof na bana.
An mika kudurin kan Afganistan zuwa ga zaunannen kwamitin kula da taron shekara-shekara. Lokaci na ƙarshe da Cocin ’yan’uwa ya yi magana game da Afganistan shi ne lokacin da Babban Hukumar (a yanzu ake kira Hukumar Mishan da Hidima) ta ba da ƙuduri bayan harin ta’addanci na 11 ga Satumba, 2001.
Kudirin ya yi kira ga shugaban kasa da mambobin majalisar da su fara janye sojojin da ke yaki nan take, a maimakon haka su sanya hannun jari don ci gaban al'ummar Afghanistan da ababen more rayuwa. Wasu shawarwari guda shida sun bukaci cocin ’yan’uwa da su kara tsunduma cikin fannoni kamar agajin jin kai, hanyoyin samun tashin hankali, hidima ga wadanda yakin ya shafa, da tattaunawa tsakanin addinai da al’adu, da nazari, da addu’a, da aiki da suka shafi samar da zaman lafiya kawai.
Hukumar ta amince da wani ma'auni na kasafin kudin 2012 wanda ke buƙatar rage dala 638,000 don cimma daidaiton kasafin kuɗi a cikin Asusun Ma'aikatu. Amincewa da dalla-dalla, kasafin kuɗin layi na dala miliyan 4.9 za a jinkirta shi fiye da lokacin da aka saba a watan Oktoba domin cimma ragi. Ma’aikata da hukumar da ke tsara kudi sun yi hasashen bukatar rage kasafin 2012 a cikin shekarar da ta gabata.
Daga cikin sauran abubuwan kasuwanci, hukumar:
- ya ji rahotanni daga Ruthann Knechel Johansen, wanda ya wakilci Cocin ’yan’uwa a taron zaman lafiya na Ecumenical na duniya a Kingston, Jamaica; da kuma memba na hukumar Andy Hamilton, wanda ya halarci wata tawaga don bikin kammala gidaje 100 a Haiti;
- samu sabuntawa game da ci gaban takardar Jagorancin Minista;
- ya shiga cikin girmama Oakton (Va.) Cocin Brothers, wanda ya sami lambar yabo ta Bude Rufin Rufin na bana saboda ƙoƙarinsa a fannin nakasa.
Ben Barlow ya fara wa'adin shekaru biyu a matsayin shugaban hukumar, tare da Becky Ball-Miller a matsayin zababben shugaba. Sauran mambobin da aka zaba don kwamitin zartarwa sune Andy Hamilton da Pam Reist.