Sentences with phrase «associated with local churches»

Although I had always been associated with local churches, my curiosity about them came late and unexpectedly while I was engaged with what seemed a quite different set of professional concerns.

Besides Dr. Theophilus and his wife, there were the chaplain of the military cantonment and his wife; a retired woman principal of a girls» school, dressed in an immaculate white sari; and some other people associated with the local church.

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The local Hucknall Beer Festival is held in a centre associated with the church, so it seemed a local collaboration would be a good idea.

Considered autonomous churches, these congregations freely associate with the SBC (a national body), other national Baptist bodies, state bodies (generally known as state conventions), and local bodies (generally known as associations).

And the Church does do incredible things around the world and here in the US - you simply can not deny that - «Together, with the local, diocesan - associated Catholic Charities, it is the second largest social service provider in the United States, surpassed only by the federal government».

Otherwise, members can be trapped in repetition of whatever local traditions they associate with what it means to be the church.

Personally, I associate rap with the summer of 1989, the time I was in Northwest Pasadena serving in something called the Pasadena Youth Program, sponsored by some local churches and InterVarsity Christian Fellowship.

Their newly acquired religious faith, where it persists, more frequently than not is oriented around the television set and the television preacher than around an external local church that has not been associated with the experience.

After a homeless man was found dead in a local church on Christmas Eve in 2008, Wilson - Bolton, ABR, CRS, a sales associate with Century 21 Troop Real Estate and chaplain for the Ventura County Fire Department, was called to the scene — and decided on the spot to take action.