{"id":18668,"date":"2022-04-21T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=18668"},"modified":"2022-04-21T19:06:54","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T19:06:54","slug":"nigerian-brethren-mourn-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2022\/nigerian-brethren-mourn-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Brethren mourn deaths of denominational trustee, seminary lecturer, staff driver"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Communications staff of Ekklesiyar Yan\u2019uwa a Nigeria (EYN, the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria) have shared prayer concerns for the deaths of an EYN trustee, a lecturer at Kulp Theological Seminary, and a staff driver, among other losses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe give God the glory for a successful Annual General Church Council Meeting [Majalisa] 2022,\u201d wrote EYN head of Media, Zakariya Musa. \u201cIt was not easy for the church because it buried one of the EYN Board of Trustees on 29th March, the very day the Majalisa started, and another burial was conducted at the same venue where the Majalisa took place on 1st April, a day the meeting ended.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Prayer is requested for these losses:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The death of Ibrahim Dawa Ashifa Amuda, a minister on EYN\u2019s Board of Trustees and a traditional ruler in the abandoned Bayan Dutse area, who died in an IDP camp for displaced people run by EYN in Nasarawa State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The death of Aishatu Joseph Buduwara, from Gwoza area of Borno State, on March 31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The death of Daniel John, a driver for EYN\u2019s ICBDP program at the EYN headquarters, who was killed by Fulani.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The kidnapping of five staff of the EYN Brethren Health Technology program on April 7, who were later freed by community youths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The death of Gulla Nghgyiya, a minister and lecturer at EYN\u2019s Kulp Theological Seminary originally from Gwoza area, who was killed in an auto accident on April 10. His burial was scheduled for April 13, after a special service at the EYN Headquarters Conference Centre in Kwarhi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMay God comfort their families, friends, and the entire Church of the Brethren in Nigeria,\u201d wrote Musa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Find more Church of the Brethren news:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/retinopathy-of-prematurity-vietnam\/\">Retinopathy of Prematurity Project aids premature infants and their families in Vietnam<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/walking-together-resolution-adopted\/\">\u2018Walking Together\u2019 resolution on care for immigrants is adopted<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/be-the-peace\/\">Be the peace: A keynote address by Angelo Mante<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/eder-financial-reports-on-transition\/\">Eder Financial reports on transition of services to Everence<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/ministerial-leadership-polity\/\">Adjustments to ministerial leadership polity are approved<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communications staff of Ekklesiyar Yan\u2019uwa a Nigeria (EYN, the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria) have shared prayer concerns for the deaths of an EYN trustee, a lecturer at Kulp Theological Seminary, and a staff driver, among other losses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1703],"tags":[3,45,1542,1468,13,1803],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-18668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-church-of-the-brethren","tag-ekklesiyar-yanuwa-a-nigeria","tag-eyn","tag-global-mission","tag-nigeria","tag-prayer-requests"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18669,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18668\/revisions\/18669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18668"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=18668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}