Sentences with phrase «as small church»

It was built as a small church during the Spanish colonization of the Philippines.

Although St. Joseph's was impressive from the outside and offered beautiful views over the city and to the St. Lawrence River, the inside was modern and nowhere near as intricate as the smaller churches in Montreal.

Not exact matches

I was going to mock these, but, in truth, for a small congregation, where somebody's personal car has to double as the church car, these could be useful.

The incident occurred shortly before 10 a.m. (11 a.m. ET) as members of a small Kansas church that protests at military funerals and counter-protesters stood nearly a block away from First United Methodist Church during services for Staff Sgt. Michael Bock, 26, who died August 13 in Afghanistan's Helmand prochurch that protests at military funerals and counter-protesters stood nearly a block away from First United Methodist Church during services for Staff Sgt. Michael Bock, 26, who died August 13 in Afghanistan's Helmand proChurch during services for Staff Sgt. Michael Bock, 26, who died August 13 in Afghanistan's Helmand province.

It isn't always so easy to rebrand oneself when you have a 10 year work history as a pastor of a small church, a worthless Th.M degree, mountains of student loan debt, and a family to feed.

A large church constructed nearby displays photographs of victims, a small collection of personal items (such as shoes and glasses) recovered from the site's mass graves, and icons of those who have been canonized.

While there maybe small varying of opinion as to text, it's the church that sets standards based on the word of God.

But while our communities and churches certainly benefit from photographers, artists, writers, musicians, artisans, chefs, carpenters, fire - fighters, hard - laborers, entrepreneurs and small - business owners, those who have found themselves in a corporate gig have just as much to contribute to both the Church and the Kingdom as any other talented individual.

Goshen is a small school in northern Indiana that's owned and operated as a ministry of Mennonite Church USA.

As a pastor I've been getting help for years, from a psychiatrist, from a clinical pastoral course I took years ago, from small groups over the years, from dear friends who are honest enough to speak into my life, from my medical doctor, from the elders in my church, from my wife (mostly) from an adult children for alcoholics group I started only because there was nothing in place in my community.

In a small, steepled church, people sing a few old hymns backed by an organ, listen to a sermon, share in Communion and have bad coffee as they laugh and catch up in the church basement afterward.

I can see how you may view my attendance at a small group Bible study affiliated with a church organization as a contradiction in terms (or at least an issue of semantics.)

«There is a small decline in church attendance over time, but not nearly as large as suggested in popular culture, or even by some social scientists,» said University of Nebraska - Lincoln sociologist Philip Schwadel, who conducted the study.

Yet the small church remains, and as long as it does, it is our psychological link with the past, showing us Sunday by Sunday that we are not adrift.

The Lutheran groups most likely to identify as evangelical are small and functionally free - church (the Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ).

In a sense — and I know this may be difficult to grasp — you as the pastor are a threat to a small church.

I share my talents generously to my church, and have never requested any payment for them, I pledge as much as my limited finances will allow, and spend much time at my church, instituting new worship programs (as my priest requested), and yet I am constantly criticized for the smallest «infraction» by this same person.

I stood in the small hallway just outside of the sanctuary, nervously jogging from foot to foot as I strained to see through the crack between the doors into the church.

This weekend, 26 people were killed and at least 20 more were injured when a gunman opened fire on the congregation of a small community church as they worshipped during a Sunday morning service.

Small church groups should be so structured that they support married as well as single people.

The small town church where I serve as Executive Pastor will turn 12 years old this year.

She adopted my family as her own, took it upon herself to call my parents «Mom» and «Dad,» and kept a small piece of the parsonage's hideous kitchen floor when the church finally replaced it.

Every day millions of faithful souls in monasteries and back pews and small apartments exercise the priesthood of all believers in prayer practices that bring life to the church as the beating heart brings blood to the body.

He has worked as a carpenter and small businessman and served as the pastor of an inner city church in Montreal.

Finally, all agreed that the best forms of ecumenism, for the foreseeable future at least, should be local and ad hoc, involving such small but powerful gestures as learning to pray with and for local Catholic and Orthodox churches.

God started with a small party in a garden, moved on toward some pow - wows at alters in the desert, then moved into a moveable tabernacle (kind of like an Old Testament RV), then reigned in a temple (especially the God - cave of the Holy of Holies, then disappeared while giving the Jews the silent treatment for some 400 years, then came back to the temple, then traveled the highways and byways with anyone who wanted to join the fun and whooped it up with society's outcasts and wedding attenders, then moved on to some public forums, then into some clandestine home groups and a few jail cells, and eventually made his way into traditional church as we now know it.

Bufkin portrayed the move to deny the black couple a chance to marry in the church as the work of a small minority whom he called «radicals» and who he said made mostly anonymous calls to their pastor to complain about the black couple's wedding.

It's powerful how outlawed we can feel - the small minority who have sought God on the matter - and who will only do as HE says, not as a» church fellowship» demands.

It struck me on reading this how woefully lacking in Britain are proper support and encouragement for those Catholics / Christians who carry this cross, desiring to be faithful to Christ, notwithstanding small groups such as Encourage, which receive negligible financial and public support from the Church.

I'm a bit biased in my opinion as I go to very small denominational church in «the mega-church capital of the world,» but I've always wondered why, while my small church does just fine (though we do have our own problems), the leaders of mega-churches feel the need to spend all this money to keep their churches mega.

«The first iteration of the mandate in 2011 created an onerous burden for institutions that conscientiously object to providing contraceptives and / or abortifacients for religious reasons, as it contained only a very narrow exemption that applied to a small number of churches,» stated the council.

Our churches, whose steeples dot every cityscape and small town in the land, are exempt from paying taxes, and unlike many people of other faiths, we don't have to worry about fighting with our employers to take time off to celebrate our religious holidays as they are largely taken for granted.

Pastors and church staff are invited to participate via computer or to be part of the studio audience as Ed Stetzer and Thom Rainer discuss how small churches can apply elements revealed through LifeWay's «Transformational Church» initichurch staff are invited to participate via computer or to be part of the studio audience as Ed Stetzer and Thom Rainer discuss how small churches can apply elements revealed through LifeWay's «Transformational Church» initiChurch» initiative.

Some of the larger Protestant denominations, such as the Southern Baptists, Seventh - Day Adventists, and Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod were of sufficient stature to be able to gain free sustaining - time directly from local stations and they used this to supplement the smaller amount of time they received from the networks.

Today's post comes from Jack Lumanog, as a part of our series focusing on Transformational Small Churches.

Their pastor, Buck Giebelhaus, is committed to MOSAIC being an integral part of Northpoint's culture, and, as a result, Northpoint now participates in World Orphans» Church - to - Church Partnerships as covenant partners with Fountain of Life Church of Juja, Kenya (Fountain of Life has a small family - style orphan care home on the church propChurch - to - Church Partnerships as covenant partners with Fountain of Life Church of Juja, Kenya (Fountain of Life has a small family - style orphan care home on the church propChurch Partnerships as covenant partners with Fountain of Life Church of Juja, Kenya (Fountain of Life has a small family - style orphan care home on the church propChurch of Juja, Kenya (Fountain of Life has a small family - style orphan care home on the church propchurch property).

Thom Rainer, LifeWay President, will be joining me along with a panel of small church pastors as we talk through how small churches are making a biblical impact in the lives of their members and in their communities.

Mantel's memoir, like the novels, is thick with smoldering grievances: against teachers («I don't know if there is a case on record of a child of seven murdering a schoolteacher, but I think there ought to be»); adults generally («In Hadfield, as everywhere in history of the world, violence without justification or apology was meted out by big people to small»); and above all, against the Catholic Church, which stood in judgment on her mother when Mantel was a child.

Just like Ray Ortlund discussed last week with respect to church planting, small churches often assume that due to limited resources, they have little to offer when it comes to tasks that seem as daunting as orphan care.

In The Pilgrim Charlie is an escaped convict who, disguised as a clergyman, is mistaken for the eagerly awaited pastor of a small southwestern church.

But if this seems unsuitable in the case of the Church (though it might be given some thought), the election of lay representatives beyond the small groups of the parish is a difficult question, especially as the Catholic associations no longer have a function similar to that of the political parties in appointing such represent - ative bodies.

Their books may not be known to most of the general public interested in questions related to Jesus, the Gospels, or the early Christian church, but they do occupy a noteworthy niche as a (very) small but (often) loud minority voice.

If your church is small, let me encourage you to see your church's size as a serious strength in fulfilling the orphan mandate.

There is a small community of Muslim background believers — Christians from Muslim families — as well in Egypt, and that's a community that Open Doors also works with, although we are also very involved with the Coptic church.

But it could be the nucleus of a complete neighborhood, one which has a church community at its enter, and the potential to promote growth in an urban rather than suburban sprawl pattern (much as the most beautiful parts of contemporary London grew in the 17th and 18th centuries around small residential - square developments).

As adults, she joined the Catholic church, moved to a small town and slowly lost all of my respect.

And the churches will find a way to separat the believers and by default give us atheists the upper hand as now we will face smaller groups lead by small voices instead of one group with one voice... the battle shall be epic!

To me, as an actual member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - Day Saints, I wonder if even a small fraction of the 52 % of Americans that say they don't know what a Mormon is, would get some idea of how normal we actually are in America, just like Muslims.

Initially, they tried to start small groups as a way to encourage connections, but when this failed, Bill had to step back and take a fresh look at what it means to be Christ's church.

Small churches are often defined as those with fewer than 100 in worship on any given Sunday.