Sentences with phrase «as homeless people»

At least five people died after collapsing while shoveling snow, while several victims were identified as homeless people who either refused shelter or didn't make it to a warm haven soon enough.

So if I were a rich man and left all of my possessions behind and lived on the street for a year as a homeless person, is the hypocrisy that I could go back to being rich or that I tried to see how someone else lives?

A controversial life - size statue of Jesus depicted as a homeless person has become a permanent fixture near a church in Scotland.

A controversial life - size statue of Jesus depicted as a homeless person has become a permanent fixture... More

Ellen Burstyn lived as a homeless person for a few days to step out of her comfort zone.

They are accepted and not judged as a homeless person.

She gained indefinite leave to remain in 2009, and applied to Kensington and Chelsea for accommodation as a homeless person.

The gravamen of their complaint was that the amendments effectively disenfranchised persons in disadvantaged groups, such as homeless persons or Aboriginal persons residing in rural communities.

Not exact matches

He's wrong because, as sad as it is, a homeless person dying affects one person.

As well as the fatalities, the tremor also injured more than 6,000 people, made nearly 29,000 homeless, and caused an estimated $ 2 billion in damage, according to the government's latest tallAs well as the fatalities, the tremor also injured more than 6,000 people, made nearly 29,000 homeless, and caused an estimated $ 2 billion in damage, according to the government's latest tallas the fatalities, the tremor also injured more than 6,000 people, made nearly 29,000 homeless, and caused an estimated $ 2 billion in damage, according to the government's latest tally.

EDAR offers mobile protection to give homeless people a roof as a low - cost alternative solution to a widespread community problem.

Instead, it suggested homeless people were little more than «helpless pieces of privilege - extending human infrastructure,» as ReadWrite put it.

Protecting major transfers to persons, spending on health and education and other spending such as that for Aboriginal programs, research and development, and assuming you won't revisit defense and international assistance, then to find an additional $ 8 to $ 11 billion by 2015 - 16 would require major cuts in labor market programs, spending on the homeless, infrastructure programs, and last, but certainly not least, government personnel costs.

While living as a homeless wanderer through Israel, Jesus was himself an outsider and spent his time with social pariahs: people who were in some way racially, financially, physically or morally different than those making up the majority in Judea.

It's not a negation of truth or absolute truth, it's just a recognition that we might be as confused over things as our kin in the faith who chained up Bibles, burned the bones of reformers, tossed bombs into the basements of black churches and burned crosses on the front yards of black people, who ignore the plight of the homeless and the poor while we struggle to decide between the 36 and 72 inch plasma screen tv.

They are members of a nationwide group known as The Initiative Collective — a volunteer crime prevention outfit that encourages people to fight back against violence using self - defense, armor and theatrics — in addition to doing general good deeds like fundraising, feeding the homeless and offering free martial arts training to anyone who wants it.

I drive past multi-million dollar church properties filled with throngs of wealthy people (as compared to the peoples of this world, today) sitting on cushy chairs or pews, gazing out stained glass windows, and then arrive at my destination — the haunts of the homeless, many of whom have all they own in a backpack or in a shopping cart.

Because they (attempt to) care for widows, orphans, the homeless, the addicted and spend millions of dollars and travel thousands of miles to find people who do not any type of access to the gospel and translate the Bible into their native language, or build schools and hospitals as well as churches their witness and their faith is nullified because they (wrongfully) dismiss porn stars and the people trying to reach them?

They have also begun to recognize the homeless people as well.

As we have been driving around Oregon, we have noticed many homeless people.

Mainline churches looking to retain and attract young people, particularly «homeless» evangelicals like myself, would do well to look to Missiongathering as a model, for, at least from my perspective, they have managed to combine all that is great about the mainline with all that is great about evangelicalism into one faith community.

As there are different things you should or should not do for homeless people versus those who have a home but are poor, some of the items on the list begin with the words «Homeless» or «Poor» for things that are specific to those groups ofhomeless people versus those who have a home but are poor, some of the items on the list begin with the words «Homeless» or «Poor» for things that are specific to those groups ofHomeless» or «Poor» for things that are specific to those groups of people.

Many of the «homeless» on the street the weekend before Christmas (the homeless have told us it is one third to one half of the «homeless» present) are not homeless, but people who dress up as homeless to get the free items.

I don't know if its fear of something i've never faced before or biased ideas of what a homeless person is portrayed as, provided to me by movies, the news etc..

From a social worker — first step is not to identify them as «homeless people».

The really bad thing about what they're doing is that it takes resources away from those who really need them, the real homeless people, and gives cash to a guy who is pulling down $ 60K annually by posing as homeless.

They should be referred to as a person who is homeless.

I volunteer at a homeless NPO and as much as I enjoyed the first part of the post, I do not agree with leaving bible verses and the implication of forgetting about sharing Jesus out completely... I understand the reasoning and that people have been hurt, but to leave Jesus out of the equation unless they ask doesn't sit well with me.

Sin is when we choose not to see that everyone is our neighbor, that we are all connected, that the homeless guy on the corner needs food, and the poor of Iran need food, and here we sit complaining about our jobs being outsourced overseas, as if some woman making shirts in Bangladesh is a lesser person than an American woman.

Whereby painting the homeless as victims and the people walking by as perpetrators.

As you drove around, did you start noticing homeless people?

My wife pointed out, of course, that the «homeless» family members had hats covering their faces and other such things, so it is not really their fault for not seeing their loved ones, but still, the point of the video is as you say, we often ignore or miss the homeless people around us.

I've prayed for all the homeless people we've seen Jo»... and as much as I want to make a difference to their physical situation, (we did give them some resources) I realise it's also something that has a spiritually challenging side.

The Diocese of London has named this group as London's «hidden homeless» and has asked people to raise money and awareness of the issue by spending the night on their couch.

When the day to feed the homeless arrived, the people I met, people who had been unknown and faceless to me suddenly were sitting beside me as we shared stew, bread, and cherry cobbler.

Players build their personal statements using locations such as «foodbank», «local estate», «school», or «home»; different groups of people such as «homeless people», «my mates» «work colleagues» or «prisoners» and varying actions such as «visiting», «helping» or «baking», as well as more traditional interpretations of mission such as «preaching», «going» and «church».

The church spends millions of dollars — money that could help so many homeless, hungry people — on keeping LGBTI people from having the exact same rights as everyone else already enjoys.

Almsgiving is a duty of charity, a commendable spiritual practice along with prayer and fasting, and a means for us to win friends in eternity, whether by giving money to organisations or individuals who carry out the corporal works of mercy — saving the lives of pre-born babies by supporting pro-life work, feeding the hungry by the alleviation of famine, sheltering the homeless, welcoming the stranger, or the spiritual works of mercy, such as having Masses offered for people who are sick or in particular need, or those who have died and the souls in purgatory.

Uncritical loyalty to «the family pew» makes it very difficult to see or comprehend the plight of the poor and the homeless, the oppression of minority persons, as anything but their own fault.

If one counts 2 million Americans as homeless and another 2 million as hungry, the quotient is $ 25 per person.

We have little trouble finding the «truly unable», such as desperately sick people, the mentally ill, some of the homeless, and the recently bereaved (such as loss of spouse or child).

He said he had been homeless himself as a young man, and wanted to «give something to people who need a lift».

As Christians, we judge gays, lesbians, the rich, the homeless, people of other religions, atheists, heretics, criminals, drunks, drug addicts, prostitutes, pimps, politicians, and anybody else we can think of to point our finger at.

But that then could be false too, as if a homeless person came into the church, would you kick him out because he wasn't dressed to your liking?

Only in this way can they have a perceptible impact on such pastoral - prophetic local issues as how sick people can get better care, how the homeless can find decent housing, and how the voice of the church can be heard in the din of competing voices at city hall.

Here are a few of the stories I have heard from homeless people in my town as I spent Easter Sunday among them:

My career options as a homeless exmonk are limited but I manage to be interviewed for posts as a rat catcher, a person who picks up litter and a railway signaller.

We have people in our community that work in the public schools, in homeless shelters, as social workers, or in non-profit or government agencies.

The event benefits Community Residences Inc., a non-profit provider of programs and services for people who are developmentally and physically disabled, as well as the homeless and those with mental illnesses.

And I did not deal with all this math mumbo jumbo to end up as a homeless yet tragically fit yet still homeless person.