{"id":6419,"date":"2013-04-25T00:00:07","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T00:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.brethren.org\/news\/?p=6419"},"modified":"2018-11-03T20:20:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T20:20:21","slug":"mission-workers-report-on-majalisa-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2013\/mission-workers-report-on-majalisa-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission Workers Report from Annual Meeting of Nigerian Church"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Above, a view of last year’s Majalisa, and the women’s choir singing for worship\u00a0for the 2012\u00a0annual meeting\u00a0of EYN, the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria. These photos from last year’s annual meeting give a glimpse into the scene at the Nigerian\u00a0Brethren yearly church council. Below, meals for the gathering are prepared in an outdoor kitchen.<\/p>\n

Photos by\u00a0Carol Smith<\/small> \"\"<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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\u201cOur first Majalisa was a good experience,\u201d report Carl and Roxane Hill, Church of the Brethren mission workers with Ekklesiyar Yan\u2019uwa a Nigeria (EYN–the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria). \u201cWe were given an opportunity to give a short welcome so both Carl and I spoke for a few minutes. There were over 1,000 in attendance. We were also put on a committee to hand out ballots and count the votes for the elections.\u201d<\/p>\n

EYN\u2019s 66th Majalisa was held April 16-19 on the theme, \u201cReclaiming Our Heritage as Peace Church in Such a Time Like This.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were impressed with EYN’s plans to provide for so many public services that we take for granted in the USA (schools, health, security),\u201d wrote the Hills in an e-mail report.<\/p>\n

The Hills serve with EYN alongside another Church of the Brethren teacher, Carol Smith. During the meeting, the Hills had an opportunity to meet with several pastors as well as the district secretary from Maiduguri to hear first hand about the trouble that has occurred in that northeastern Nigeria city.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt seems that the reports given to the public are often inaccurate in terms of the number of deaths,\u201d the Hills wrote. \u201cOne thing they have not mentioned is that more Muslims have been killed by the violence than Christians.\u201d The Hills reported that they have learned from two different sources that the ratio \u201cmay be even two to one\u201d in terms of numbers of Muslims killed as compared to numbers of Christians killed by the Islamist extremist terror attacks in Nigeria in recent years.<\/p>\n

Report on Majalisa<\/strong><\/p>\n

Toma Ragnijiya spoke several times during the conference about the theme, \u201cReclaiming Our Peace Heritage.\u201d EYN president Samuel Dali gave an opening speech highlighting the vision for the future of EYN including new construction projects and the creation of new boards (see below). He challenged the EYN church to remain wise as serpents but gentle as doves through this time of persecution.<\/p>\n

The new boards created by EYN include an Education Board that will focus on the quality of existing EYN schools as well as assess the need for additional schools. A grant from Japan will be used to build a new primary school at Nyeji in Nasarawa State.<\/p>\n

A new Health Management Board will oversee the major health clinics. Two doctors have been requested from the Church of the Brethren in the United States. Meanwhile, an offering was taken during the Majalisa to provide a salary for local doctors. Three ambulances and other medical equipment has been supplied by the MDGS.<\/p>\n

A Security Board will be responsible for obtaining and training security personnel. They will focus on gathering intelligence as well as providing security. Press releases will be handled through this board.<\/p>\n

A Microfinance Bank Board will empower the EYN community economically. When operational, these banks will provide employment and small loans. The church in general was very excited about this new venture.<\/p>\n

An Agricultural Board will oversee various agricultural projects.<\/p>\n

In elections, Musa Mambula was re-elected to the post of Spiritual Advisor. Two trustees were elected, one for the Garkida area and one for the Lassa area.<\/p>\n

In other business: Audit reports from last year were favorable. An increase in wages for EYN workers was approved. Directors will now be promoted from within departments instead of opening the jobs to outside applicants.<\/p>\n

For more about the Church of the Brethren\u2019s Global Mission and Service work in Nigeria, and more information about EYN, go to www.brethren.org\/partners\/nigeria<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cOur first Majalisa was a good experience,\u201d report Carl and Roxane Hill, Church of the Brethren mission workers with Ekklesiyar Yan\u2019uwa a Nigeria (EYN–the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria). There were over 1,000 in attendance at EYN\u2019s 66th Majalisa on April 16-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"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":[1],"tags":[45,13],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-6419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ekklesiyar-yanuwa-a-nigeria","tag-nigeria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6419","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6424,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6419\/revisions\/6424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6419"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=6419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}