- Tunatarwa: Clyde R. Shallenberger, tsohon shugaban Cocin of the Brother General Board, ya rasu a ranar Dec. 2 a Broadmead Retirement Community a Baltimore, Md. Ya yi aiki a Babban Hukumar 1968-71 da 1973-81, ya zama shugaban hukumar 1974-81. Wani minista da aka nada wanda kuma ya sami digiri a fannin ba da shawara na asibiti da ilimin halin dan Adam, ya yi ritaya a cikin 1993 daga aiki na shekaru 30 a matsayin darekta na farko na hidimar limamin asibiti a Asibitin Johns Hopkins da ke Baltimore. Bayan ya yi ritaya asibitin ya ba shi lakcara a fannin ilimin likitanci don karrama shi. Shallenberger ya yi aiki a kan aƙalla kwamitocin nazarin Taro na Shekara-shekara guda biyu, yana taimakawa wajen rubuta bayanin “Shugabancin Rayuwa” na 1975 (www.brethren.org/ac/statements/1975-life-stewardship) da kuma "Kirista Ethics and Law and Order" na 1977 (www.brethren.org/ac/statements/1977-christian-ethics-and-law-and-order). An haife shi a Connellsville, Pa., zuwa Belle da Nathaniel Shallenberger, yana da shekaru 3 ya ƙaura zuwa Uniontown, Pa., Inda ya girma a Cocin Uniontown na 'yan'uwa. Ya yi karatu a Kwalejin Elizabethtown (Pa.), inda ya sami digirinsa na farko; Bethany tauhidin Seminary a Chicago, inda ya sami gwanin allahntaka; da Jami'ar Johns Hopkins, inda ya sami digiri na biyu a fannin ba da shawara na asibiti da ilimin halayyar dan adam da kuma takardar shaidar ci gaba da karatu. Ya kammala horon aikin likitanci a asibitin jihar Western dake Staunton, Va. Kolejin Elizabethtown da Kwalejin Bridgewater (Va.) sun ba shi digirin girmamawa. Ya kasance memba na ƙwararrun ƙwararrun ƙwararrun ƙwararru da ƙungiyoyi masu ba da shawara ciki har da Ƙungiyar Ilimin Kiwon Lafiyar Kiwon Lafiya da Kwamitin Addini da Kiwon Lafiya, Likita da Faculty of Chiurgical na Jihar Maryland. "Allah Ya Bani Lafiya. Zai Iya Kare Kansa” shine taken ɗaya daga cikin labarai da yawa game da ma'aikatar Limamin Asibiti na Shallenberger, wanda jaridar ta buga. Johns Hopkins Magazine. Kiransa na farko zuwa hidima ya zo ne a lokacin babban shekararsa a Elizabethtown, lokacin da ya fara a Cocin Reading na Brothers a matsayin fasto na wucin gadi. A lokacin ne ya sadu kuma ya auri Helen Louise Kaucher a shekara ta 1950. Ya ci gaba da zuwa ikilisiyoyin limamai a Virginia da Maryland kafin ya tafi aiki a Asibitin Johns Hopkins a shekara ta 1963. Ya daɗe a Cocin Columbia United Christian Church (CUCC). a cikin Church of the Brother's Mid-Atlantic District. Fasto Philip Curran ya rubuta a cikin wani abin tunawa daga gundumar: “Clyde ya kasance mai ƙwazo a fannin kula da makiyaya a Asibitin Johns Hopkins kuma ya jagoranci rayuwa ta salama da alheri. Ga al'ummar CUCC, Clyde abin koyi ne na almajirancin Kirista da sadaukarwa. Ga danginsa, ya kasance mijin shekara 70 ga ƙaunataccensa Helen kuma mahaifinsa mai girman kai ga Karen, Nancy, da Rick. Duk wanda ya san Clyde yana son shi kuma za a yi kewarsa da gaske. " Za a yi hidimar tunawa a ƙarshen bazara ko lokacin rani na shekara mai zuwa.
- Terry Goodger ya yi murabus a matsayin mataimaki na shirye-shirye na Ma'aikatun Bala'i na Brethren, har zuwa Dec. 31. Ta tafi don ɗaukar wani aiki. Ta kasance mataimakiyar shirin don shirin sake gina bala'i fiye da shekaru uku, tun daga Yuni 2017. Ayyukanta sun haɗa da tsarawa da yin hulɗa tare da kungiyoyin sa kai na mako-mako da masu kula da bala'i na gundumomi, bin diddigin da sabunta bayanan shirin sake ginawa, a tsakanin sauran ayyuka masu yawa don taimakawa. ci gaba da aikin sake gina wuraren aikin. A baya Goodger ya yi aiki da shirin Albarkatun Material na Cocin na ’yan’uwa na tsawon shekaru 10, wanda ya fara a watan Satumba 2006 kuma ya ƙare a cikin Satumba 2016, yana aiki a matsayin mai kula da ofis. Ayyukanta na Cocin 'yan'uwa ya kasance a Cibiyar Hidima ta 'Yan'uwa a New Windsor, Md.
- Ma'aikatun Shari'a na Ƙirƙira, takwararta ta shari'ar muhalli ga Majalisar Ikklisiya ta ƙasa, a halin yanzu tana ɗaukar ma'aikata uku: Wani sabon Mai ba da shawara na tushen Washington, DC don taimakawa sauƙaƙe ayyukan al'ummomin imani na yanayin teku, haɗawa a cikin Kwamitin Ma'aikatan Addini na Washington da kafa dangantaka mai ƙarfi a cikin Gwamnatin Biden-Harris da kuma tare da manyan ma'aikatan kwamitin a Majalisa (duba www.creationjustice.org/join-our-team-public-witness-advocate.html). Abokan hulɗa guda biyu bisa California; idan mai nema ya fito wanda ya cancanta don kammala aikin aiki a cikin bayanan aikin biyu, Ma'aikatun Shari'a na Halitta a buɗe suke don ɗaukar mutum ɗaya aiki don yin duka har zuwa jimlar sa'o'i 1,000: Abokin Kare Haɗin Kai na California zuwa tsakiyar labarun Baƙar fata da ƴan asali a California, suna taimakawa wajen samar da hanyar sadarwa tare da masu ruwa da tsaki na California don daidaito a cikin filaye da ruwa na jama'a na Amurka, tare da mai da hankali na musamman ga shugabannin 'yan asalin da baƙar fata, a tsakanin sauran ayyuka (duba). www.creationjustice.org/join-our-team-conservation-equity-fellowship.html). A California Gaskiya da Waraka Fellow don bin aikin Majalisar Gaskiya da Warkarwa ta California, da kuma Ƙungiyar Taimako, a tsakanin sauran ayyuka (duba www.creationjustice.org/join-our-team-truth-and-healing-fellowship.html).
- Har yanzu akwai buda-baki na sashin daidaitawa na lokacin sanyi na hidimar sa kai na 'yan'uwa (BVS). Dec. 14 shine ranar ƙarshe na aikace-aikacen wannan horo na kama-da-wane don masu sa kai a cikin Unit 328, wanda zai gudana daga Janairu 31-Feb. 12, 2021. Biyan tsari iri ɗaya na raka'o'in rani da faɗuwar rana, za a yi tsawon makonni biyu na lokacin sanyi kuma za a yi yayin da masu aikin sa kai ke zuwa wuraren aikinsu. Wannan yana ginawa a cikin lokacin keɓe na makonni biyu domin masu sa kai su shirya don fara hidima da zarar an kammala ƙaddamarwa. Ma'aikatan BVS suna aiki tuƙuru don haɗa abubuwa da yawa na al'ada na al'ada kamar yadda zai yiwu ciki har da girma cikin bangaskiya; koyo game da tarihin ’yan’uwa, hidima, da al’amuran zamantakewa; ginin al'umma; yin aiki tare don cimma ayyukan gama gari; da jin daɗi. Saboda wannan sabon tsari, ma'aikata za su yi aiki tare da masu sa kai don gane wuraren aikin su kafin daidaitawa. Fom ɗin aikace-aikacen yana kan layi a www.brethren.org/bvs/volunteer/apply. Don bayyana sha'awa da neman ƙarin bayani aika imel zuwa ga BVS@brethren.org.
- Sabis na Sa-kai na Yan'uwa yana gayyatar Cocin ikilisiyoyin 'yan'uwa da membobin don taimakawa masu sa kai na BVS wannan Kirsimeti ta hanyar aika katunan da gaisuwa. “Masu ba da agaji suna son karɓar kati da gaisuwa daga ikilisiyoyi ’yan’uwa!” In ji sanarwar. Don jerin sunayen BVSers na yanzu da adiresoshin saƙonsu, da aka tsara don bugu akan lakabi, tuntuɓi bvs@brethren.org.
- TOfishin samar da zaman lafiya da manufofin wannan makon ya ba da sanarwar daukar mataki suna kira don tallafawa don "dakatar da hukuncin kisa da gwamnatin gurguwar agwagi ta shirya." Sanarwar ta yi kira ga ’yan’uwa da su tuntubi wakilan majalisarsu don nuna adawa da “yawan kisa da gwamnati mai ci ke yi kafin su bar ofis a watan Janairu.” Sanarwar ta yi nuni da cewa, a ranar 19 ga watan Nuwamba, Orlando Hall shi ne mutum na takwas da gwamnatin tarayyar Amurka ta kashe tun watan Yulin wannan shekara; Babban Lauyan kasar ya sanar da aiwatar da hukuncin kisa guda biyar a wannan watan; kuma Ma’aikatar Shari’a tana ba da shawarar yin gyara ga ka’idoji ta yadda za a iya kashe kashen gwamnatin tarayya a cibiyoyin jihohi da kuma amfani da wasu hanyoyi fiye da alluran kisa. Sanarwar ta yi nuni da furucin da Cocin Brothers ta yi a shekara ta 1987 game da hukuncin kisa: “Ma’anar shari’a ta Kirista ta tilasta mana mu soke hukuncin kisa. Yayin da muke raba damuwar al'umma game da laifukan tashin hankali, muna tallafawa wasu hanyoyin da suka fi inganci da mutuntawa fiye da hukuncin kisa. Dole ne mu rubanya kokarinmu don ingantaccen rigakafin aikata laifuka kuma, ga wadanda aka aikata laifuka, hanyoyin kirkire-kirkire na ramawa da warkarwa." Faɗakarwar ta haɗa da samfurin rubutun tuntuɓar ƴan majalisa, da kuma hanyar haɗi don sanya hannu kan takarda kai a https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/president-trump-please-stop-the-federal-executions. Don cikakken faɗakarwar aikin jeka https://mailchi.mp/brethren.org/halt-federal-executions.
- “Ina taya murna ga rukunoni biyu na farko na masu karbar tallafin don Tallafin Haɗin gwiwar Al'umma don Ƙungiyoyin Matasa," in ji sanarwar daga Amincin Duniya. Masu karɓa guda biyu sune Kwamitin Hulɗar Baƙi na Findlay, Ohio, waɗanda za su yi amfani da tallafin don koyo game da wariyar launin fata da yanayin ƙabilanci a cikin al'ummarsu ta hanyar samar da littattafai da bita ga makarantun firamare; da Agape Satyagraha Graduate Program tare da aikin su Aminci Ta hanyar Art. Kara karantawa a www.onearthpeace.org/youth_group_grant_recipients.
- Al'ummar Misalai, haɗin gwiwar Illinois da Gundumar Wisconsin da ta mayar da hankali kan hidima ga nakasassu da iyalansu, za a rufe ranar 31 ga Disamba. "Cutar cutar ta COVID ta ba da gudummawa sosai ga shawarar rufewa," in ji sanarwar daga hukumar haɗin gwiwar. “Ma'aikatar Al'umma ta Misalai tana haɗa abubuwa masu hankali da yawa yayin taro don ibada da sauran abubuwan da suka faru. Lokacin da aka daina taro cikin mutum saboda cutar, yin amfani da hanyoyin da ba na hankali ba don saduwa ba su isa ba don biyan bukatun mahalarta ma'aikatar. Bugu da kari, wani gagarumin taron tara kudade, wanda zai taimaka wajen dorewar ma'aikatar, dole ne a soke shi saboda hana barkewar cutar. Haɗin abubuwan da aka ambata sun kawo cikas ga ikon al'ummar Parables don ci gaba da ayyuka." Hukumar ta bayyana fatan cewa haɗin gwiwar ya taimaka wa gundumar ta koya da haɓaka "ta hanyoyin da za su fassara zuwa dama ta gaba don ma'aikatun musamman don fitowa da kuma yin hidima a tsakaninmu." Za a tabbatar da rufewar a taron gunduma na 2021.
- Cabool (Mo.) Cocin of the Brother's service team and deacons suna shirin gajarta bikin Los Posadas, al’adar Kirista ta Hispanic, a kowace ƙofa na wasu gidaje 25 da ke cikin ikilisiya a cikin makon 14 ga Disamba. Jaridar Missouri da Arkansas ta ruwaito cewa: “Ba da haihuwa kashi uku na haihuwa. Maryamu mai ciki, Yusufu, da jaki (wanda Nathan Ferree ya halicce shi, maginin tukwane mai kyau da aka tashe a cikinmu), za mu ƙwanƙwasa kowace ƙofa, a nisa da rufe fuska, mu ce, ‘Za ku ba da wuri domin Yesu?’” Tawagar za ta bar ƙaramin kofa. fitilu a kowane gida, alamar haske a cikin dogayen daren isowa, da kuma alamar “maraba na Kristi da dukan ’yan’uwansa mata da ’yan’uwa mafi ƙanƙanta a dukan duniya. A cikin shekara mai zuwa, muna tsammanin wasu watanni na ci gaba da nisantar da su, za mu nemi a kunna waɗannan fitilu a matsayin alamomin sadaukar da kai da haɗin kai lokacin da aka bayyana abubuwan da suka shafi addu'a, na gida da waje. "
- Cocin Walnut Grove na 'Yan'uwa a Johnstown, Pa., A ranar Lahadi ta karrama Kenneth Reed da Arn Locher, dukansu a cikin shekaru 80s, na shekaru 30 suna hidima tare da kayan abinci na coci. Mutanen suna aiki tare da ma'aikatar abinci tun 1992. Fasto Brad Griesheimer ya shaida wa WJAC Channel 6 cewa mutanen sun taba rayuwar iyalai 60 zuwa 70 a wata. Nemo rahoton labarai da bidiyon Reed da Locher da jama'arsu ke karramawa yayin ibadar safiyar Lahadi a https://wjactv.com/news/local/two-men-honored-for-30-year-service-with-walnut-grove-church-of-the-brethren-food-pantry.
- Yara a Bridgewater (Va.) Wayar da kai game da kula da yara na Cocin 'yan'uwa kwanan nan an yi katunan da za a ba da su ga dattawan gida waɗanda buƙatun nisantar da jama'a suka yi tasiri sosai a wannan shekara, a cewar jaridar Shenandoah. Katunan wani ɓangare ne na aikin ta hanyar Shirin Virginia don Ayyukan Aging, wanda ya ba da su a madadin yaran. "Yara suna neman hanyoyin yin hidima a ƙananan hanyoyi amma masu tasiri," in ji jaridar, "ko da saduwa da mutum da mutum ba zai yiwu ba."
- Hukumar Gundumar Plains ta Arewa tana ba ‘yan jarida takardar shaidar kyauta ga dukkan ministocinta da majami'u a cikin wani matakin "dauka a matsayin martani ga cutar ta COVID-19, wacce ke dagula albarkatun 'yan jarida da kuma sanya karin bukatu kan majami'u da masu hidima," in ji jaridar gundumar. "Northern Plains District ya gane cewa dukanmu muna cikin wannan tare - ministoci, majami'u, Brotheran jarida, gundumar." Gundumar tana aika takaddun shaida “tare da ƙarfafawa a waɗannan lokatai masu wuya kuma tare da godiya don haɗin gwiwarmu a hidimar bishara.” Hukumar gundumar tana amfani da kudade na musamman don samar da takardar shaidar kyauta ga kowane minista da ɗalibin TRIM a gundumar, da kuma takardar shaidar kyautar $25 ga kowane ikilisiyoyin gundumar, abokan tarayya, da ayyukan coci.
- Gundumar Western Plains ta sanar da "Bikin Sauyi/Taro" a matsayin fasalin taron gunduma na 2021 Yuli mai zuwa. Dale Minnich ya rubuta sanarwar a cikin wasiƙar gundumar a madadin Ƙungiyar Bikin Bikin Taro. Taron zai yi murna da shirye-shiryen gundumar don kawo sauyi tun daga 2003, lokacin da “jerin abubuwan da Ruhu ya jagoranta ya haifar da sabon jagoranci na gundumomi, haɓaka ƙungiyar ma'aikatar yankin, nazarin shugabannin gundumomi na wani littafi kan sauyi, kiran ƙungiyar canji. don taimakawa Western Plains 'daukar sauye-sauye da gaske,' da kuma samar da taron Taro wanda ya fara tsawon shekaru 15 a cikin 2005," in ji rahoton. “Haka kuma ya haifar da samar da sanarwar manufa ta hangen nesa, da sake fasalin tsarin shugabancin gundumomi, da kuma samar da tsarin horar da fasto/shugabanci wanda ya haifar da wasu tarurrukan horo guda 40 cikin shekaru. Waɗannan abubuwan da suka faru sun fito da jagororin Junior High and Youth a duk tarurrukan 15, da kuma hulɗa tare da kowane mai gudanar da taron shekara-shekara a cikin shekaru 10 da suka gabata. Taron ya kasance wani taron tallafi mai ƙarfi tare da halartar 340 a farkon shekarunsa…. Yunkurin sauye-sauye, wanda Western Plains a yanzu sananne a cikin Cocin ’yan’uwa, ya cancanci nuna godiya daga gundumarmu.” Rahoton ya lura cewa bikin na iya kasancewa cikin mutum ko kuma na kama-da-wane dangane da yanayin cutar a tsakiyar shekarar 2021.
- Gundumar Kudancin Pennsylvania tana godiya ga Rich Shaffer na tsawon shekaru da ya yi yana aiki a matsayin shugaban kwamitin Canning nama da kuma babban mai gudanarwa na abubuwan gwangwani na nama na shekara-shekara wanda ke tallafawa tare da Gundumar Mid-Atlantic. “Mawadaci ya yi murabus daga wannan matsayin don ya ba da ƙarin lokaci ga ƙaunatacciyar matarsa, Joy,” in ji jaridar gundumar. "Sabis ɗin Rich ya ba da abinci marasa adadi ga masu fama da yunwa a duk faɗin duniya."
- Majalisar Ikklisiya ta kasa (NCC) tana gayyatar shiga cikin "Kwanaki 40 na Addu'a don Canza: Tafiya zuwa Sabuwa." Tun daga ranar 12 ga watan Disamba zuwa ranar 20 ga Janairu, 2021, mambobin NCC da abokan tarayya za su yi addu'o'in fatan fata, hadin kai, da lafiya, in ji sanarwar. “A wannan lokacin zuwan/Kirsimeti da kuma cikin Sabuwar Shekara mun sanya begenmu ga iyawa da sha’awar Allah, ta wurin Yesu Kristi, don warkar da canza zukata da tunani. Muna neman Ruhu Mai Tsarki ya hura sabon Allah cikin rayuwar mutum ɗaya, al'ummomin bangaskiya, ran al'ummarmu, hakika, dukan duniya." Daga 12 ga Disamba, za a buga ƙarin bayani a www.nationalcouncilofchurchs.us/topics/weekly.
- Majalisar Ikklisiya ta Duniya (WCC) ta sanar da taron waƙoƙin zuwan daga ko'ina cikin duniya da nufin hada kan mutane cikin bege. Shirin yana cikin haɗin gwiwa tare da Red Crearte, cibiyar sadarwar Latin Amurka wanda ke samar da kayan ruhaniya da na liturgical. Mai taken “Waƙar gama gari don zuwan, Kirsimeti, da Epiphany,” tarin “yana neman bayyana haɗin kanmu a cikin bambance-bambance ta hanyar baiwar kiɗa. Ana samun wannan ta hanyar nuna gudummawar kiɗan na mawaƙa daga iyalai daban-daban na ikirari da al'adu. Duk waƙar tana dogara ne akan rubutu gama-gari amma an gabatar da su cikin harsuna dabam-dabam.” Za a fitar da waƙoƙin a duk lokacin zuwan da Kirsimeti, wanda zai ƙare a Epiphany a ranar 6 ga Janairu, akan tashar YouTube ta WCC a www.youtube.com/user/WCCworld. WCC ta raba ƙarin bayani da waƙoƙin farko guda biyu a cikin tarin - "Florescer em Esperança" na Louis Marcelo Illenseer na Brazil, da "Vi Anar Dig Jesus, i Ljusen" na Per Harling na Sweden-at www.oikoumene.org/news/gathering-of-advent-sogs-from-across-the-world-will-unite-people-in-bege.
- An amince da H. Lamar Gibble na tsawon shekaru 65 a matsayinsa na minista ta taron gundumar Illinois da Wisconsin a watan Nuwamba. Gibble ya yi aiki na shekaru da yawa a kan ma'aikatan cocin 'yan'uwa, yana aiki a yankunan shaida na zaman lafiya da haɗin gwiwar ecumenical da na duniya.
- Peggy Reiff Miller ta ba da sanarwar gabatar da zuƙowa ta farko game da kawayen teku, na Laburaren Jama’a na Kwarin Indiya da ke Telford, Pa. “Saurayi biyar daga Telford, Pa., sun tafi teku bayan Yaƙin Duniya na II don kai dawakai, karsana, da alfadarai zuwa ƙasashen da yaƙi ya halaka a Turai. Masanin tarihin kabobin teku Peggy Reiff Miller zai ba da labarunsu masu ban sha'awa da ƙari," in ji bayanin abin da ya faru a ranar Talata, 8 ga Disamba, da ƙarfe 7 na yamma (lokacin Gabas). Yi rijista a https://ivpl.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/seagoing-cowboys.
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