Sentences with phrase «talking with local churches»

Talking with local churches and other organisations is a great idea to start with.

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During the week, we will talk to local leaders, workers living here permanently helping local churches, and also some of those who came with me.

«But we're actually interacting with people at a local authority level and trying to encourage people in the church to talk about not just the message they're hearing... but also the work that the church is doing and why we're doing it.»

Now that people in the mainline denominations are starting to talk unembarrassedly about church growth and evangelism of a fairly conventional sort, Wheeler worries that the potential exists for any emphasis on congregational studies to be misinterpreted as an outgrowth of the spirit of the times — which views local communities of believers uncritically, as in - arguably good things, and assumes that if there is anything the matter with them it is that they aren't big enough.

«For many if not most of the people I was coming into contact with in local churches, talking about their congregation meant citing statistics of one sort or another, or details of particular programs.»

Here, we talk to Laura Blank of World Vision, who is working in the country, about barriers to rebuilding, how WV partners with the local church and how the Haitian people are receiving emotional care beyond the basics.