Newsline Church of Brother
Oktoba 25, 2017
“Ya faɗa maka, ya mutum, abin da yake mai kyau; Me Ubangiji yake bukata a gare ku, sai dai ku yi adalci, ku ƙaunaci alheri, ku yi tafiya cikin tawali’u tare da Allahnku?” (Mikah 6:8)
Maganar mako:
“An san mu a matsayin coci mai hidima da hannunta. An san mu a matsayin coci mai nauyi da tausayi…. An san mu a matsayin coci mai rayuwa a sauƙaƙe…. Me ya sa ba za mu bi kiran Mika kawai ba?”
- Samuel Kefas Sarpiya, mai gudanarwa na Cocin 'yan'uwa, wanda ya jagoranci taron rufe ibada na taron Hukumar Mishan da Ma'aikatar.
Ofishin Jakadancin da Hukumar Ma'aikatar sun karɓi "Vision for Global Church of the Brothers," kuma sun ba da shawarar wannan sabon falsafar falsafar zuwa taron shekara-shekara, a taronta na Oktoba 20-23 a Cocin of the Brother General Offices a Elgin, Ill. Haka kuma hukumar ta zartas da kasafin kudin shekarar 2018, inda ta amince da kaso mai tsoka guda biyu daga asusun bala’in gaggawa, sannan ta yi aiki da shawarwarin kwamitin nazari da tantancewa wanda taron shekara-shekara ya jagoranta ga hukumar, da dai sauransu.
Hukumar ta ɗauki ɗan lokaci kaɗan don sauraron jawabin da wakilai daga “Taron Moorefield,” taron “Yan’uwa da suka damu” da aka shirya a Cocin Moorefield na ’yan’uwa a gundumar Marva ta Yamma.
Taron faduwar hukumar ya kasance karkashin jagorancin shugaba Connie Burk Davis, wanda zababben shugaba Patrick Starkey da babban sakatare David Steele suka taimaka. Kamar yadda yake a kowane taro na Hukumar Mishan da Hidima, an ɓata lokaci a cikin ibada, waƙa, da addu’a. An gayyaci farfesa na Makarantar Bethany Dan Ulrich don ya jagoranci taron ci gaban hukumar, yana ba da nazarin Littafi Mai Tsarki mai zurfi na Romawa 12-13 mai taken “A Pauline Appeal for Peace in Christ.” (Nemo hanyar haɗi zuwa kundin hoto daga taron hukumar a www.brethren.org/album .)
Ra'ayi don Ikilisiyar 'Yan'uwa ta Duniya
Jay Wittmeyer, babban darektan Ofishin Jakadancin Duniya da Sabis ne ya gabatar da sabuwar takardar falsafar manufa. An dade ana aiwatar da takardar. Kwamitin Ba da Shawarwari na Ofishin Jakadancin ya shiga cikin ci gabansa, a tsakanin sauran kungiyoyi, kuma an tuntubi shugabannin Cocin na 'yan'uwa a kasashe da dama - ciki har da Brazil da Najeriya.
Ƙaddamar da sabuwar falsafar manufa ta zo ne daga rashin alaƙa tsakanin siyasa da aiki, Wittmeyer ya gaya wa hukumar. Ya kawo misali da wa'adin taron shekara-shekara na Ikilisiyar 'Yan'uwa ta Duniya a cikin bayanan taron da ya gabata game da manufa da aka yi a 1981, 1989, da 1998. Duk da haka, tsarin mulkin a halin yanzu yana kira ga gundumomi na duniya. A aikace, ƙungiyoyin Cocin ’yan’uwa masu zaman kansu sun girma a ƙasashe dabam-dabam.
"Ikkilisiya na iya yin bikin cewa, a zahiri, ta zama duniya," in ji jaridar, a wani bangare. “An kafa Cocin ‘Yan’uwa a Brazil, Jamhuriyar Dominican, Haiti, Indiya, Najeriya, Spain, da Amurka, kuma tana tasowa a wasu yankuna na duniya. Mutane suna zaɓe su zama ’yan’uwa kuma suna zaɓa su dasa cocin da suke. Kowace mako, fiye da rabin miliyan a faɗin duniya suna yin ibada a cikin ikilisiyar ’yan’uwa.”
An bayyana zuciyar hangen nesa na Cocin ’yan’uwa na duniya a sashen “Zama cocin duniya.” Sashin yana wakiltar gagarumin canji a fahimtar yanayin dangantakar manufa:
“Cocin ’Yan’uwa da ke Amurka tana tunanin Ikilisiyar ’Yan’uwa ta Duniya a matsayin ƙungiyar masu cin gashin kansu, al’umma ta ruhaniya da aka haɗa tare da sha’awar zama mabiyan Kristi, tauhidin Sabon Alkawari gama gari na salama da hidima, da kuma alƙawarin gamayya na kasancewa cikin alaƙa da juna. Daidai da fifikon firist na dukan masu bi, ba za a ɗauki cocin yanki ko na ƙasa a matsayin mai iko akan sauran ƙungiyoyi ba. Babu wani ’yan’uwa a cikin Majami’ar Duniya ta ‘Yan’uwa, gami da Ikilisiyar ‘mahaifiyar’ a Amurka, da za ta ɗauka cewa tana da tunanin Kristi ga majami’un ‘yan’uwanta…. Za a yanke shawara game da matsayi da nauyin da ke kan Cocin Duniya na ’Yan’uwa, gami da yarda da sabbin ungiyoyin ’yan’uwa cikin wannan zumunci, tare da shawarwarin juna tare da Ikilisiyar ’Yan’uwa ta ƙasa da ke akwai.”
Takardar ta kuma ƙunshi sashe kan “Ruɓar Ikklisiya ta asali,” “Tabbatar da ‘yancin kai,” “Karfafa alaƙa,” “Rayuwa ga juna,” “Bayyana ainihin ’yan’uwa na duniya,” “Yi hidima,” “Bridging barriers,” da “ Cin nasara kan iyakoki."
Za a raba cikakken rubutun daftarin kafin taron shekara-shekara.
Tallafin bala'i
An amince da shawarwarin Ma’aikatun Bala’i na ’yan’uwa na manyan kaso biyu daga Asusun Bala’i na Gaggawa (EDF).
An amince da bayar da tallafi na biyu na dala 75,000 don agajin bala'i a yankin Caribbean bayan bala'in guguwa na wannan faɗuwar. Wannan kari ne ga tallafin da aka bayar a baya na $25,000. Yawancin kuɗin za a yi amfani da su don ayyukan agaji a Puerto Rico, tare da wasu daga cikin su don tallafawa ayyukan agaji a Haiti. Aikin da ake yi a Puerto Rico zai kasance haɗin gwiwar Ma’aikatar Bala’i ta ’yan’uwa tare da gundumar Puerto Rico na Cocin ’yan’uwa.
Bayar da tallafin dala 400,000 na ci gaba da tallafawa rikicin Najeriya, hadin gwiwar Cocin Brethren's Global Mission and Service da Brethren Disaster Ministries tare da Ekklesiyar Yan'uwa a Najeriya (EYN, Church of the Brothers in Nigeria). Rabon yana wakiltar gudummawar da aka keɓe don Rikicin Rikicin Najeriya. Rabon da aka ware zai biya kudin shirin har zuwa karshen shekara.
Hukumar ta amince da cikakken tsarin kasafin kudi na 2018 wanda ma’aikata suka ba da shawarar kuma ma’aji da CFO Brian Bultman da mataimakin ma’aji Ed Woolf suka gabatar. Hukumar ta amince da daidaitaccen kasafin kudi na $5,192,000 ga Ma'aikatun Ma'aikatun darikar.
Hukumar ta kuma amince da babban kasafin kudin ga dukkan ma'aikatun darika na $8,809,160 da ake hasashen samun kudin shiga, dala 8,824,280 da aka yi tsammani, don asarar dala 15,120 da ake tsammani. Babban jimillar kasafin kuɗi ya haɗa da Manyan Ma'aikatu da Ma'aikatun Bala'i na 'Yan'uwa, 'Yan Jarida, Shirin Abinci na Duniya, Albarkatun Kaya, da Ofishin Taro.
Bultman ya bayyana cewa ma'aikatan sun yi aiki don ƙirƙirar kusa da kasafin kudin "hutu ko da" mai yiwuwa. Shi da Woolf sun yi musayar bayanan baya, gami da canja wurin $510,000 daga Cibiyar Sabis ta Brothers Quasi-Endowment zuwa kasafin kuɗi na Ministries. Wannan yana wakiltar wani yanki na siyar da kadarori na babban harabar a cikin New Windsor, Md., kuma ya ci gaba da "gada" kasafin kuɗi na 2016 na Ofishin Jakadancin da Hukumar Ma'aikatar da ta amince da shi a cikin tsammanin yaƙin neman tattara kuɗi da ake la'akari da shi nan gaba.
Kasafin kudin 2018 ya hada da karin kashi 1.5 cikin 2018 na tsadar rayuwa a albashi, ci gaba da ba da gudummawar da ma’aikata ke bayarwa ga asusun ajiyar lafiya ga ma’aikatan da suka shiga fa’idar inshorar likitanci, da kuma raguwa fiye da yadda ake sa ran za a samu na kuɗaɗen inshorar likita na XNUMX kamar yadda Brethren Benefit ya ambata. Amincewa.
A cikin sauran kasuwancin
Hukumar ta yi aiki da shawarwari da yawa da taron shekara-shekara ya gabatar. lokacin da taron ya amince da shawarwari daga kwamitin nazari da tantancewa a wannan bazarar da ta gabata. Yawancin an tura su hukumar ne domin suna bukatar a yi canje-canje ga dokokin Cocin ’yan’uwa. Canje-canjen da kwamitin ya yi a kan dokokin zai zo taron shekara-shekara don amincewa a shekara ta 2018, tare da wasu ƙarin sauye-sauyen dokokin da za su kawo ƙamus na hukumar har zuwa yau.
Hukumar ba ta yi aiki da shawarwarin da suka shafi kula da kadarorin Babban ofisoshi ba a wannan taron. Davis ya sanar da cewa an kafa Rukunin Gudanarwa na Ƙirar Dukiya don ƙirƙirar tsari don binciken. Ƙungiyar aiki tana ƙarƙashin jagorancin memba na kwamitin gudanarwa Carl Fike kuma ya haɗa da mambobin kwamitin Colin Scott da David Stauffer da babban sakatare David Steele.
Davis ya jagoranci wani taro na tunani don neman dabaru masu mahimmanci don "Rayuwa Tare kamar yadda Kiristi ke Kira," ci gaba da aikin da aka ba hukumar ta taron shekara-shekara. An sanya sunan ƙungiyar aiki don aiwatar da shawarwarin tunani da kuma kawo shawara ga hukumar a cikin Maris. Kungiyar ta hada da dan kwamitin zartarwa Jonathan Prater, mambobin kwamitin Lois Grove da Diane Mason, da ma'aikacin da har yanzu ba a bayyana sunansa ba.
Steele ya jagoranci zaman saurare kwatankwacin wadanda yake rike da shi a gundumomin da ke fadin darikar. Zaman ya ƙunshi ƙaramin rukuni na "magana game da abin da shirin ɗarika ke samun daidai, da kuma inda ya rasa alamar.
Rahotanni masu yawa wanda aka samu a yayin taron ya hada da rahoton kudi kan kasafin kudi na shekara da bayar da rahoto, da rahoto kan zuba jari na kungiyar, ayyukan agajin bala’o’i na baya-bayan nan, da tsare-tsare na abubuwan da ke tafe ciki har da taron matasa na kasa na 2018, da sabbin bayanai daga sassa daban-daban na ma’aikatar, da dai sauransu. .
Tawagar Moorefield
Hukumar ta saurari gabatarwar maza biyar da suka kasance a wurin taron a Moorefield: Grover Duling, shugaban hukumar gundumar Marva ta Yamma da kuma wakilin gunduma a kwamitin dindindin; Scott Kinnick, babban jami'in gundumar kudu maso gabas; Jim Myer da Craig Alan Myers na Ƙungiyar Revival Fellowship (BRF); da Musa Mambula, wanda ke limamin cocin Good Shepherd Church of the Brothers a birnin Tipp, Ohio.
A lokacin gabatar da nasu, hukumar ba ta mayar da martani ga kungiyar ba, ko da yake daya daga cikin mambobin kwamitin sun tattauna da su bayan an tashi taron la’asar da kuma lokacin cin abincin dare da ya biyo baya. Daga baya a karshen mako, hukumar ta tattauna batun gabatarwa a cikin rufaffiyar zama.
Hukumar ta amince da martani ga tawagar da shugaban hukumar ya aika a matsayin sakon e-mail ga Duling. Wasikar martanin hukumar ta bayyana a kasa, a kasan wannan Special Newsline.
Da yake maraba da tawagar, Davis ya sanar da cewa manufar hukumar ita ce saurare. "Wannan ji ne," in ji ta, tana mai jaddada cewa ba lokacin yanke shawara ko muhawara ba ne. Ta kara da cewa, tare da isassun sanarwa, hukumar za ta yi maraba da duk wata kungiya daga cikin darikar da ke neman irin wannan dama.
Kowane memba na tawagar ya yi magana, karkashin jagorancin Duling. Ya shirya taron Moorefield bayan ya ji damuwa game da gabatarwar a taron shekara-shekara na fasto wanda ke cikin auren jinsi. Ya shaida wa hukumar cewa ‘yan cocin sun zo wurinsa ne domin su ce sun damu, a shirye suke su bar darikar.
Duling ya kwatanta yanayin ɓangaren ƙungiyar da ake wakilta a Moorefield a matsayin "mai rauni." Mutane 58 da suka halarci taron gayyata kawai sun fito ne daga gundumomi 14 cikin 24 na Cocin ’yan’uwa, kuma sun haɗa da wasu shugabannin gundumomi da aƙalla mamba ɗaya na Hukumar Mishan da Hidima. Mai gudanar da taron shekara-shekara da zaɓaɓɓun masu gudanarwa sun kasance a matsayin masu sa ido.
Taron ya gabatar da tambayoyin, "Ina muke a matsayin ƙungiya?" "A ina muke so mu kasance a matsayin ƙungiya?" da "Yaya zamu isa can?" Fahimtar da ke biyowa suna cikin sakamakon tattaunawar, Duling ya ce: Dole ne taron shekara-shekara ya "yi aiki daidai" tare da matsayinsa; damuwa game da jima'i batu ne na koyarwa; yarda da “sauran salon rayuwa” yana haifar da “ikilisiya ta ridda.”
Ƙungiyar ba ta da shekaru biyu don jiran hangen nesa mai ƙarfi da aka kira taron shekara-shekara na 2017, in ji Duling. Mutanen da suka kasance a taron Moorefield suna mamakin ko wannan hangen nesa zai zama karbabbe, in ji shi. " Gundumominmu suna buƙatar tabbaci cewa shugabancin darika ya fahimci gaskiyar da ake ciki yanzu," in ji shi, yana maimaita da'awar cewa ikilisiyoyin da yawa a shirye suke su bar ƙungiyar, kuma "da zarar an fara, zai zama tasirin domino."
Wani memba na tawagar, Jim Myer, ya siffanta Majalisar Mennonite na Mennonite don sha'awar LGBT (BMC) a matsayin cutarwa ga ikon ɗarikar na bin bayanan taron shekara-shekara. Ya ce hanya ɗaya ta fahimtar abin da mutane a Moorefield suke ji game da BMC ita ce tunanin yadda za a ji idan wata ƙungiya ta farar fata ta taso a cikin Cocin ’yan’uwa.
Taro na Moorefield "daya ne kawai daga cikin dalilai masu yawa" a cikin darikar, ya gaya wa hukumar, yayin da ya zayyana zabin uku da yake gani ga darikar: don "ja da baya" daga rikici da kuma "tsaya kan" maganganun taron shekara-shekara; don ci gaba da rikici game da jima'i; ko kuma yanke shawara cewa “bikin bambancin” ɗarikar ba yana kawo haɗin kai ba a maimakon haka a zaɓi yanki na abokantaka na coci.
Ko da yake Duling ya ce taron Moorefield bai nemi rarrabuwa ba, Myer ya ce zaɓin rarrabuwa na iya zama kyakkyawan ƙarshen cocin zaman lafiya…. Ina son Cocin ’Yan’uwa,” in ji shi, “amma muna a ƙarshen tafiyar da muke yi, ina jin tsoro.”
Cikakkun bayanan wasiƙar Hukumar Miƙa da Ma'aikatar da ke mayar da martani ga tawagar Moorefield:
Brother Grover,
A Madadin Ofishin Jakadanci da Hukumar Ma’aikatar Ikilisiya ta ’Yan’uwa, ina sake gode muku, Jim Myer, Craig Alan Myers, Scott Kinnick, da Musa Mambula da kuka zo wurin taronmu a Elgin a ranar Asabar da ta gabata don raba mu da kaina. da kuma isar da sa hannun bayanai daga wasu zuwa gare mu. Mun sami abubuwan gabatar da ku kamar yadda kuka nuna za su kasance: na zuci, marasa rigima, da mai da hankali kan kiyaye jiki tare. Kuna da cikakkiyar kulawarmu, kuma mun ji damuwar ku.
Gabatar da sabbin abokan tarayya a taron shekara-shekara na wannan bazara bai kamata ya faru kamar yadda ya faru ba. Manufar Ofishin Jakadancin da Hukumar Ma'aikatar a koyaushe ita ce ta bi da kuma tabbatar da maganganun taron shekara-shekara, kuma mun gane cewa ba a yi hakan ba a cikin yanayi guda. Wannan kuskure ne. Babban Sakatare da ma’aikatan Cocin ’yan’uwa sun ɗauki matakai don ganin hakan bai sake faruwa ba. Bayan taron shekara-shekara, Babban Sakatare ya aika da wasiƙa zuwa ga shugabannin gundumar inda ya bayyana halin da ake ciki, matakan da aka ɗauka, da kuma neman gafara daga ma'aikacin da ya gabatar da gabatarwar. Wasu Shugabannin Gundumar sun raba wannan bayanin a cikin gundumomin su fiye da sauran. Bugu da ƙari, Ƙungiyar Jagoranci ta ba da amsa ga ƙungiyar. An haɗe martanin Ƙungiyar Jagoranci kuma ana iya samun su a gidan yanar gizon Taron Shekara-shekara a: http://www.brethren.org/ac/leadership-team-statement-to.html. An makala saƙon imel ɗin Babban Sakatare zuwa ga shuwagabannin gunduma.
Bayan waɗannan ayyukan, ba a ƙara bayyana abin da za mu iya yi ba. Ba ze zama Cocin ’yan’uwa yana da bayani game da lokacin da gundumomi suka ƙi yarda da ayyukan Taron Taron Shekara-shekara ba, kamar takarda ta 2004 da ke magana lokacin da ikilisiya ta ƙi yarda da ayyukan taron shekara-shekara. Yiwuwar takardar 2004 za a iya daidaita ta don taimakawa a wannan misalin. Muna sane da cewa ƙoƙarin da Ƙungiyar Jagoran ta yi na fassara tsarin mulkinmu da Bayanin taron shekara-shekara yana ci gaba da alaka da wannan batu. A halin yanzu, jami'an taron shekara-shekara sun tsara shirye-shiryen zuwa Gundumar Arewa maso Yamma na Pacific kamar yadda aka lura a cikin martanin ƙungiyar jagoranci.
Taron shekara-shekara na 2017 ya ba Hukumar Mishan da Ma'aikatar don "ayyukan aiwatarwa akai-akai kuma cikakke ƙudurin taron shekara-shekara na 2008 'Urging Haƙuri' a cikin rayuwar coci." Kamar yadda muka fara aiki a kan wannan, an tunatar da mu cewa Ikilisiyar ’Yan’uwa jiki ce dabam-dabam tare da sadaukar da kai ga bin Yesu kuma tare da ra’ayoyi daban-daban da hanyoyin kasancewa (kuma kusan za su ƙara zama kamar yadda muke hango Ikilisiya ta duniya). . Hanya ta ’yan’uwa na ƙyale basira mai girma a ikilisiyoyi da gundumomi, sa’ad da muke hidima da kuma yin hidima tare da juna, ya taimaka mana da kyau. Wataƙila babu ɗayanmu da zai so hukumarmu, alal misali, ta sanya fastoci a cikin ikilisiyoyi, kamar yadda wasu ƙungiyoyin Kirista suke yi. Dole ne mu yi aiki don nemo ma'auni mai kyau, mu tuna cewa yanke shawara da aka ɗauka daga wasu za a karɓa daga kowa.
Abin da ke bayyana a sarari shi ne cewa waɗanda mu a halin yanzu da ke shugabanci a cikin Cocin ’yan’uwa suna son ikilisiya kuma muna son ganin ta kasance da haɗin kai. Kun bayyana cewa wannan kuma shine burin ku da kuma waɗanda kuke aiki tare da su. Addu'armu tana tare da ku da dukkan wadanda kuke wakilta, kuma muna neman addu'ar ku a gare mu yayin da muke neman mu kasance da aminci ga daukacin darika.
Tare da sahihiyar fata da godiya.
Connie Burk Davis, Shugaba,
a madadin Hukumar Mishan da Ma’aikatar,
bayan tattaunawa da albarkar su.
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Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford, darektan Sabis na Labarai na Cocin ’yan’uwa ne ya samar da kuma edita Newsline. Za a iya sake buga labaran labarai idan an ambaci Newsline a matsayin tushen. Da fatan za a aika da shawarwarin labarai da ƙaddamarwa ga edita a cobnews@brethren.org .
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