Junior Hill, umuvugabutumwa wari uzwi cyane mu itorero ry’Ababatisita y’Amajyepfo bivugwa ko yagenzuye ibintu bigera ku 1.800 by’ububyutse mu gihe cy’umwuga we wo kubwiriza, yapfuye afite imyaka 87.
William Junior Hill yavutse ku ya 5 Nyakanga 1936, nk’umuhererezi mu bana batanu. Hill yumvise umuhamagaro wo kuba umuvugabutumwa afite imyaka 19, maze aba umuvugabutumwa w’igihe cyose mu 1967.
Hill asize umugore we w’imyaka 66, Carole, abana babiri, abuzukuru batanu, n’abuzukuruza batanu. Umuhango wo kumushyingura uzaba ku wa 9 Mutarama mu Westmeade Baptist Church i Decatur, muri Alabama.
Nk’uko byatangajwe n’Ababatisita bavuga ko Hill wabaye umuvugabutumwa w’igihe cyose mu gihe cy’imyaka irenga 50, yitabye Imana iwe i Hartselle, muri Alabama.
Gerald Wolfe, umucuranzi w’umukirisitu uzwi cyane yerekeje kuri Facebook kugira ngo ahumurize, avuga ko Hill ari “umwe mu babwirizabutumwa bwiza bashimishije cyane numvise.”
Ati: “Nahoraga ntegerezanyije amatsiko kuba muri serivisi hamwe na Junior. Yari umuntu w’ukuri, ufite umutima mwiza, ukunda ubugingo. Ntushobora kureka kumukunda. …
Nabikoze rwose. Birababaje kuko atakiri kumwe natwe, birashimishije gutekereza ku byo ari guhura nabyo muri iki gihe, imbere ya Nyagasani. Uruhuke neza, Junior. Tuzakubona vuba. ”
Sammy Gilbreath, umuyobozi uri mu kiruhuko cy’izabukuru mu biro by’ivugabutumwa mu Nama y’Ubutumwa ya Leta ya Alabama Batisita (Alabama Baptist State Board of Mission), yise Hill “umwe mu basaruzi bakomeye mu gihugu muri iki gihe.”
Gilbreath yagize ati: "Muri iki gihe hari umubare utabarika mu Bwami bitewe n’ubutsinzi bwe bwite, ubutumwa bwe butera inkunga abandi kugira ngo babe abizerwa gusangira ukwemera kwabo ndetse no gusarura imitima kubera kubwiriza kwe yasizwe".
Hill yabonye impamyabumenyi ihanitse muri kaminuza ya Samford, impamyabumenyi y’ikirenga yakuye muri Seminari ya Tewolojiya ya New Orleans y’Ababatisita, impamyabumenyi y’ikirenga y’icyubahiro yakuye muri kaminuza ya Liberty;
Anahabwa impamyabumenyi y’ikirenga ya Divine na Seminari ya Covington yo muri Jeworujiya. Mu gihe cy’ibinyejana birenga igice cy’igikorwa cy’ivugabutumwa, Hill ashimirwa kuba yarabwirije ibintu bigera ku 1.800 by’ububyutse, ndetse no kuvuga mu nama za Leta no mu maseminari.
Mu 1989, Hill yatorewe kuba umuyobozi wungirije wa mbere w’amasezerano y’abatisita y’amajyepfo mu nama ngarukamwaka yabereye i Las Vegas, muri Nevada. Yanditse kandi ibitabo byinshi, harimo na autobiography yise Bamwita Junior.
Mu nama y’abashumba b’Ababatisita ba Alabama mu 2021, kubera imyaka myinshi amaze akora umurimo w’ivugabutumwa, Hill yahawe igihembo cya mbere cya Fred Wolfe Lifetime Life Pastoral Minisiteri.
Mu nama ya 2021, Hill yagize ati: "Numva bidahagije kugira ngo abantu bamenyekane nk’abo." Ati: "Ndi umubwiriza w’inyuma gusa; Sinzi byinshi, ariko nkunda Yesu. ”
Source: Christian Post
