Newsline Church of Brother
Disamba 4, 2017
Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a Najeriya (EYN, Cocin ’yan’uwa a Nijeriya) ta samo asali ne daga ayyukan masu wa’azi a ƙasashen waje da Cocin ’yan’uwa ta aika tun daga 1923. Mijina, Don Shankster, limamin cocin Papago Buttes na ’yan’uwa. a Scottsdale, Ariz., Yana ɗaya daga cikin ’ya’yan masu wa’azi a ƙasashen waje da suka taimaka wajen ba EYN ta soma. An haife shi kuma ya girma a Najeriya. Iyayensa, Owen da Celia Shankster, sun kasance a Najeriya fiye da shekaru 40.
Tun a shekarar 2014, EYN ta fada cikin rikici, sakamakon ayyukan kungiyar ta'addanci ta Boko Haram. A cikin 2015, wasu membobin EYN, ciki har da membobin ƙungiyar mawaƙa ta mata, sun halarci taron shekara-shekara a Tampa, Fla. Jajayen masana'anta da ƙungiyar mawaƙa ke sanyawa ya keɓanta ga ƙungiyar Mata. Sauran wakilai daga EYN suna sa masana'anta iri ɗaya, amma a cikin wasu launuka. Wasu masana'anta na Najeriya sun sayar da kungiyar don taimaka musu da kokarin farfado da su, amma ba jajayen kayan hadin gwiwar mata ba.
Na yi tambaya game da samuwar jajayen kayan da kungiyar Mata ke sanyawa, kuma Carl da Roxane Hill sun aika da wasu yadudduka don biyan kuɗi ga Asusun Rikicin Najeriya. Tun daga wancan lokacin nake ta kokarin samar da wani abu na musamman da shi, don tallafa wa abubuwan da ke faruwa a Nijeriya ta hanyar Asusun Rikicin Najeriya da Ma’aikatun Bala’i na ’yan’uwa.
Sakamakon haka shine wannan bangon da aka rataye. Ƙungiyar Mata ta Papago Buttes ta ba da amsa da goyan baya a hanya. A wannan lokacin rani, Suzie Evenstad ta kira ni zuwa ga wani quilter a Chandler wanda ya yi mashin ɗin. Yanzu an kammala "Nigeria Quilt"!
- Karen Shankster memba ne na Papago Buttes Church of the Brother a Scottsdale, Ariz.
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