AMATEKA

Amateka ya CDMI

Mu ntangiriro z'ikinyejana cya 18 Ikanguka rikomeye ryakwirakwiriye mu Burayi no muri Amerika. Uku kubyuka kwumwuka kwakomeje mu kinyejana cya 19. Imiryango myinshi ya Bibiliya yaradutse kandi gukwirakwiza Ijambo ry'Imana byari byinshi. Ibi byashizeho ibidukikije hano muri Amerika no mu Burayi byo gukora iperereza ku ngingo nyinshi z’inyigisho zari zihishe mu cyondo cyo kudasobanukirwa Ibyanditswe. Hamwe na hamwe, ubwinshi bwa Bibiliya bufasha nko guhuza, inkoranyamagambo, n'amateka byavutse, gutegereza n'ibyishimo byo kuza gusobanukirwa neza imico n'imigambi y'Imana byatumye benshi mubushakashatsi bwa Bibiliya ku giti cyabo no mumatsinda bagera kumyanzuro itera ububyutse. mumuryango wa gikirisitu, cyane cyane kumurongo wo kugaruka kwa kabiri kwa Kristo.

Rimwe muriryo tsinda ryateje imbere ubuyobozi bwa Charles T. Russell, umubwiriza w’abalayiki akaba n'umunyeshuri wa Bibiliya, witangiye ubuzima bwe n’umutungo utari muto kugira ngo atangaze imyumvire isobanutse yari yaje. Umwanditsi w'umuhanga cyane, yateje imbere umuryango wagutse ku isi hose, kandi nyuma y'urupfu rwe mu 1916 uhinduka ibitekerezo kandi ubuzwa umudendezo. Abakirisitu batari bake bavuye muri uyu muryango hakiri kare, mu 1909, cyangwa mu myaka yakurikiyeho amaze gupfa, kugira umudendezo mwinshi muri Kristo. Babiri mu matsinda yashinzwe mu 1909 bamenyekanye nk'Ubusabane bw'isezerano Rishya hamwe n'Abizera b'Isezerano Rishya, ntabwo ari uko abayoboke babo bahisemo aya mazina, ahubwo bakurikije amazina y'abandi bayakoresheje nk'ibisobanuro kugira ngo babatandukanye n'andi matsinda. Mu buryo nk'ubwo, abakristo ba mbere bari bazwi nk'abayoboke ba “Inzira” (Ibyakozwe 9: 2) kuko berekanaga Yesu nk'inzira yo kwiyunga no gusabana n'Imana.

Mu 1928, itsinda ry'abavandimwe batandukanye bo mu gace ka Hartford, muri leta ya Connecticut bashinze itorero kandi bazwi ku izina rya New Creation Fellowship. Gaetano Boccaccio yari umwe mu bakuru babo maze mu 1940, atangira gusohora ikinyamakuru The New Creation buri gihe. Iyi minisiteri yaguye mu gusohora udupapuro n'udutabo kimwe n'ikinyamakuru, ubu kikaba gikwirakwizwa ku isi yose. Yahawe izina rya Christian Millennial Fellowship (CMF). Urupfu rwuwashinze mu 1996, imirimo yarakomeje iyobowe na Elmer Weeks ya Port Murray, New Jersey, muri Amerika.

Mu mpeshyi ya 2011, CMF yabaye Christian Discipling Ministries International (CDMI) kugira ngo igaragaze neza inshingano zacu zo kubaka abakristu bagenzi bacu kugira ngo bakure muri Kristo, kandi ubuyobozi bushya bwagiye bukora ibishoboka byose kugira ngo iyi ngingo ishimangire mu gihe Elmer Weeks ikomeje kuba umwanditsi mukuru Ikinyamakuru gishya. Ubu hari amatorero menshi y'abakristu bigenga mubihugu byamahanga bemeye ubutumwa bwayo kandi bakwirakwiza ubutumwa bwiza.

CDMI ishyigikiwe nubuntu bwabaterankunga baturutse kwisi yose. Ibisohokayandikiro byayo byose bitangwa kubuntu kandi abakozi ba CDMI ni abakorerabushake batanga igihe n'imbaraga zabo nka Nyagasani. CDMI ikorana mu bwisanzure n’amatorero yose y’abakristu bigenga yigenga ndetse n’umuntu wese wifuza gukura mu rugendo rwabo n’Imana abaha ibitabo dutangaza mu gatabo, udupapuro, n’amasomo yandikirana.

History of CDMI

At the beginning of the 18th Century the Great Awakening spread over Europe and America. This spiritual revival continued into the 19th century. Many Bible Societies sprang up and the distribution of the Word of God was great. This created an environment here in the United States and Europe of personal inquiry into many doctrinal topics that had been hidden in the mire of misunderstanding of the Scriptures. Concurrently, a plurality of Bible helps such as concordances, dictionaries, and histories arose, an expectation and joy of coming to a clearer appreciation of the character and plan of God led many in personal and group Bible studies to arrive at conclusions that inspired a revival in the Christian community, especially along the lines of the soon-expected second coming of Christ.

One of these groups developed around the leadership of Charles T. Russell, a lay preacher and Bible student, who devoted his life and considerable fortune to promulgating the clearer understanding he had come to. A prolific writer, he developed an organization that was world-wide in scope, and after his death in 1916 became both fixed in thought and restricted in freedoms. A number of Christians left this organization early, in 1909, or in the ensuing years upon his death, for greater liberty in Christ. Two of the groups formed in 1909 became known as the New Covenant Fellowship and the New Covenant Believers, not that their members chose these names, but from designations by others who used it as a description to differentiate them from other groups. Similarly, the first Christians were known as followers of “The Way” (Acts 9:2) because they pointed to Jesus as the way to reconciliation and fellowship with God.

In 1928 a group of separated brethren in the Hartford, Connecticut area formed a congregation and were known as the New Creation Fellowship. Gaetano Boccaccio was one of their elders and in 1940, he began to publish The New Creation magazine regularly. This ministry expanded to publishing tracts and booklets as well as the magazine, which is now distributed world-wide. It was given the name of Christian Millennial Fellowship (CMF). With the death of its founder in 1996, the work was continued under the oversight of Elmer Weeks of Port Murray, New Jersey, USA.

In the fall of 2011 CMF became Christian Discipling Ministries International (CDMI) to better reflect our mission work of building up fellow Christians to maturity in Christ, and new management has been working on the transition to this new emphasis while Elmer Weeks continues as editor of The New Creation magazine. There are now many free Christians congregations in foreign countries that have embraced its message and are actively spreading the good news.

CDMI is supported by the generosity of donors from around the world. All of its publications are offered free of charge and the CDMI staff members are volunteers who donate their time and energy as unto the Lord. CDMI cooperates freely with all independent free Christians congregations and any who desire growth in their walk with God by providing them with the literature we publish in the form of booklets, tracts, and correspondence courses.