Tare da liyafar liyafa da kuma ibada, Cibiyar Ma'aikatar Susquehanna Valley (SVMC) ta yi bikin cika shekaru 25 na Nuwamba 3 a Chambersburg (Pa.) Church of Brothers.
Kimanin mutane 85 ne suka halarci taron, wanda ya mamaye gundumomi biyar da SVMC—Atlantic Northeast, Southern Pennsylvania, Middle Pennsylvania, Western Pennsylvania, da Mid-Atlantic—tare da ma’aikatan coci-coci.
SVMC, wanda ya fara a matsayin tauraron dan adam na Susquehanna Valley tare da abokan haɗin gwiwa guda biyu a cikin 1993, an ƙirƙira shi don samar da ingantaccen ilimin hidimar 'yan'uwa a yankin ƙasar tare da mafi yawan jama'a. Ya zuwa yau, ta yi hidima fiye da ɗalibai 2,900 a ci gaba da ilimi, TRIM da shirye-shiryen horar da ma'aikatar ACTS, da kwasa-kwasan digiri.
Warren Eshbach, wanda ya yi aiki a matsayin shugaban jami’a daga 1997 zuwa 2006, ya ba da cikakken bayani na tarihi, yana mai lura cewa SVMC “ɗaya ne daga cikin ƙungiyoyin yanki kaɗan a cikin Cocin ’yan’uwa.”
Eshbach ya ce: “Ubangiji ya ba wa wannan ƙungiyar girma, kuma Allah ya ba da jagoranci mai yawa.” "Har yanzu tartsatsin yana nan."
An sami sauye-sauye da ƙari da yawa a cikin ƙarni na huɗu da suka gabata, amma darektan SVMC na yanzu Donna Rhodes ta ce manufar ƙungiyar “ya yi ƙarfi a yau kamar shekaru 25 da suka gabata.” Wannan ƙarfin, in ji ta, ya kasance saboda kyakkyawan haɗin gwiwa da SVMC ya haɓaka tare da abokan haɗin gwiwarsa, musamman gundumomi masu haɗin gwiwa da Bethany Theological Seminary da Cibiyar 'Yan'uwa don Jagorancin Minista.
Shugaban Bethany Steven Schweitzer ya yi hidima a matsayin fitaccen mai ba da jawabi don ibadar maraice, inda ya zana jigo na ranar tunawa, “Growing in Knowledge, Rooted in Christ.”
Schweitzer ya ce "Don samun tushe cikin Almasihu da girma cikin ilimi - irin wannan sana'ar tana buƙatar mu duka, tare, yayin da muke samun haɗin kai cikin Kristi." Irin wannan aikin yana bukatar “haƙuri, ƙuduri, da farin ciki,” in ji shi.
Rhodes da mijinta, Loren, sun ba da piano guda huɗu masu ban sha'awa masu ban sha'awa don hidimar ibada, wanda kuma ya haɗa da "al'ada ta albarka" inda wakilan abokan hulɗa daban-daban na SVMC suka haɗa ƙananan kwantena na ƙasa a cikin tukunyar da za ta riƙe furen salama. a ofishin SVMC, dake Kwalejin Elizabethtown (Pa.)
Sauran abubuwan da suka fi jan hankali a maraicen sun hada da gwanjon zanen da ’yan’uwa mai zane kuma Fasto David Weiss ya yi a yayin taron (wanda ya tara dala $300), gabatarwar PowerPoint na tarihin SVMC, da kuma wakar bude baki da Eshbach ya jagoranta.
A cikin addu'arsa gabanin liyafa, Fasto na Chambersburg Joel Nogle ya bayyana fatansa ga ma'aikatar SVMC da ke gudana.
"Mun ba ku daukaka don wannan maraice mai ban mamaki," in ji shi. "Muna ci gaba da yin imani cewa mafi kyawun aikinmu - mafi kyawun aikinku - yana gabanmu a cikin shekaru 25 masu zuwa."
