“Ku tuna a gaban Allahnmu Ubanmu aikin bangaskiyarku, da aikinku na ƙauna, da haƙurinku na bege ga Ubangijinmu Yesu Kiristi” (1 Tassalunikawa 1:3).
Yana da matukar bakin ciki cewa muna jimamin mutuwar Terry L. Grove, ministan zartarwa na gundumar Atlantic ta Kudu maso Gabas. Ya yi fama da ciwon jijiya kuma ya rasu a wani asibiti da ke Orlando, Fla., da safiyar yau.
Ray Hileman, a madadin hukumar gunduma ya rubuta: "Dukkanmu muna cikin kaduwa da bakin ciki a safiyar yau da rasuwar Ministan Zartarwa na gundumarmu." "Wannan babban rashi ne, na farko ga matarsa, Carole, da sauran danginsa, ga Cocin Sabon Alkawari, inda zai fara aikin fastoci na wucin gadi a lokacin canjin su, da kuma gundumar ASE, inda Terry's. Jagoranci mai hangen nesa yana kai mu gaba zuwa wasu sabbin abubuwa amma masu ban sha'awa. A matsayinmu na Hukumar Gundumar, mun himmatu don ci gaba da gadonsa yayin da muke aiki tare da dukan majami'u 19, masu magana da Ingilishi 11, 7 Haitian Kreyol yana magana, da kuma 1 Mutanen Espanya, tare da ƙarin a sararin sama. Don Allah a yi addu’a ga iyalan Terry da mu baki daya yayin da muke fama da wannan rashi na kwatsam tare da neman ci gaba da yardar Allah da ikonsa.”
Torin Eikler, shugaban majalisar zartarwar gundumomi, ya yi wannan addu’ar a cikin wata sanarwa ga mambobin majalisar:
“Ya Ubangiji Allah na dukan rai, ka tara cikin ruhun Ɗan’uwanmu a yau. Ku maraba da shi cikin rungumar ku, ku ba shi hutawa da kwanciyar hankali. Aika Ruhu Mai Tsarki don ya kewaye shi kuma ya goyi bayan iyalinsa yayin da suke baƙin ciki. Ka yi musu ta'aziyya a cikin halaka. Riƙe su kusa yayin da suke koyon rayuwa tare da wannan rami a rayuwarsu kuma ka ba su tabbacin cewa Terry yana rayuwa tare da kai, yana jiran sake saduwa da su sau ɗaya har abada. Ka kwantar da radadin radadin da kuma fitar da abubuwan da aka kashe cikin farin ciki da raha domin a sauƙaƙa nauyin wannan nauyi ta hanyar murmushi a cikin hawaye. Kuma bari mu duka mu sami bege da kwarin gwiwa a cikin rayuwa mai kyau da aka yi cikin tabbatacciyar ceton ku. AMEEN."
Terry Grove ya fara ne a matsayin zartarwa na Gundumar Kudu maso Gabas ta Atlantic a ranar 1 ga Mayu, 2016. Ya yi aiki na ɗan gajeren lokaci a matsayin zartarwar gundumar riko a 'yan shekarun baya, kuma ya kasance ma'ajin gundumar da Camp Ithiel.
A shekara ta 2019, an nada shi wa'adin shekaru biyar akan Kwamitin Ba da Shawarar Raya da Amfanin Makiyaya na taron shekara-shekara a matsayin wakilin Majalisar Zartarwa na Gundumar.
Ya fara aikinsa a hidima a Carson Valley (Pa.) Church of the Brothers a farkon 1950s, inda aka ba shi lasisi a lokacin makarantar sakandare. An naɗa shi a shekara ta 1967. A matsayinsa na fasto, ya yi hidima a Cocin of the Brothers a Pennsylvania, Washington, Indiana, da Florida, da kuma ikilisiyar United Church of Christ a Florida na shekaru 14.
Har ila yau, aikinsa ya haɗa da fiye da shekaru 20 na aikin Coci World Service (CWS) da CROP, yana buɗe musu ofisoshi a New Jersey da Florida. Ya kasance Daraktan Yanki na CROP 1973-97.
Ya yi karatun digiri na biyu a Kwalejin Juniata a Huntingdon, Pa., (1964), kuma ya rike babban malamin allahntaka kuma likita na ma'aikatar daga Bethany Theological Seminary (1967 da 1985).
A cikin 2017, ya yi bikin shekaru 50 na hidima a cikin Cocin ’yan’uwa.
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