Sentences with phrase «at a local church in»

In this light, it is not entirely surprising that Lazaridis went on to found the Perimeter Institute, or that he and Fregin donated $ 300 to a soup kitchen at a local church in 1984 before paying themselves a salary.

On this trip I saw that these sponsorships weren't just random children, but they were children involved in child development programs at local churches in needy areas.

Webb, who is also a member of the cross-party Christians in parliament and vice-president of the Liberal Democrat christian forum, is married to Helen Edwards, previously a curate at his local church in Clapham.

Accomplishments Roofing and Painting at local Churches in Gouverneur and Rossi.

She has past experience serving as a volunteer counselor at a local church in Minnesota and at an international church in The Hague, Netherlands, where she lived for 4 years.

I will wear it to my MOPS group that I help run at our Local Church in Fort Collins, CO and everyone will want one!

Not exact matches

Mark lives in Salem, Oregon, where he serves on the school district budget committee as well as a number of church boards and committees at the local, state, and regional level.

First, they have been reasonably effective at the local level; in some cases their success in growing local churches has been spectacular.

In recent years, a number of Christian leaders have rightly called lethargic and half - hearted Christians to quicken their pace, to dedicate more of their time, talents, money and efforts to serving the Lord in the local church and in evangelistic outreach at home and abroaIn recent years, a number of Christian leaders have rightly called lethargic and half - hearted Christians to quicken their pace, to dedicate more of their time, talents, money and efforts to serving the Lord in the local church and in evangelistic outreach at home and abroain the local church and in evangelistic outreach at home and abroain evangelistic outreach at home and abroad.

I have been in the local ministry at the same church for 24 years.

These newer understandings are taking hold in many churches at the local level.

During his period in Strasbourg, Calvin served as a pastor to a local French «language church at the invitation of Strasbourg's great reformer, Martin Bucer, who also introduced him to the widow who would later become Calvin's wife.

They recently gave a Sunday morning talk at a local church on their experiences (or as Don says, «I realized in Mozambique that real change in our world first requires real change in us — in me and in you».

ACN is helping local Church leaders to stand up for people's rights by providing support at the Inter-Religious Dialogue Centre in Khulna.

As Rebecca's faith grew, Shawn started to read the Bible for himself and ended up in tears, praying the «sinner's prayer» at a Bible study group in his local church.

In some ways, Flanders is the embodiment of evangelical cultural stereotypes: He's extremely morally conservative, constantly references his faith, has a seemingly perfect family, is prone to cringe - inducing clichéd sayings and is a fixture at the local church.

(Two weeks earlier in Tanta, a bomb was defused at Mar Girgis — the city's largest church — and a local police training center was attacked.)

In our tradition, authority remains at the local church level.

Currently I'm studying in a part - time career counseling program at a local university and working part - time at the church.

In recent decades, ministries that are involved in crusade evangelism have tried to increase the long - term effectiveness of their efforts by engaging local churches and ministries to perform follow - up discipleship with those who come forward at a crusadIn recent decades, ministries that are involved in crusade evangelism have tried to increase the long - term effectiveness of their efforts by engaging local churches and ministries to perform follow - up discipleship with those who come forward at a crusadin crusade evangelism have tried to increase the long - term effectiveness of their efforts by engaging local churches and ministries to perform follow - up discipleship with those who come forward at a crusade.

Browsing the new arrivals shelf at your local theological library, you're now as likely to find titles by the Catholic dogmatician Matthew Levering, the Orthodox historical theologian Paul Gavrilyuk, and the Reformed theologian Kevin Vanhoozer on why we need to continue to speak, with the early Church, of God's inability to suffer — and of God's voluntary assumption of our human nature, in Jesus Christ, in order to share, and thereby overcome, our suffering — as you are to find another volume on God's suffering in the divine nature itself.

She answered her call to ministry at the age of 15, and has been preaching, teaching and pastoring in the local church ever since.

Her funeral was at Our Lady Help of Christians Church on 27 March and she was interred next to her mother in the churchyard of St Mary and St Eanswythe (a local Folkestone saint to whom Hazel had devotion), on a site where Christian worship has been offered since AD 630.

I am sure they were kind - hearted and loved the Lord deeply, but I wondered if what we were doing, whether we knew it or not, was worshipping at the altar of our American - defined ideal of success, only in the setting of a local church.

Churches that participate in political activity need to have all of their tax breaks removed, including property taxes on church property at the local level.

As I sat through the second Christmas Eve Service at the local church, I could not help but notice the stark contrast between the two Christmas Eve «Services» we had participated in that day.

Many professors at Wesley and other seminaries speak in local churches regularly, but can not fill the demand for solid teaching that comes just from the churches within driving distance.

For this local church is the place where the layman must really find his place and his responsibility, where he must feel at home, Just as in a family where one also does not like everyone.

Sure, I was writing marketing copy about new mammogram machines at the local hospital and articles about church planting in Alberta for the North American Mission board, but I was making a good living.

Just for a few moments, please try and put on another set of lenses in order to objectively look at a social phenomenon that I believe the local church must address.

I was appointed to a parish in Appalachia half time, and taught half time at a local church junior college, named for its founder, Young Harris.

In addition to shaping Christian thought through his voluminous publications («Fundamentalism» and the Word of God, Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God, and A Quest for Godliness, to name only three of the most popular), he helped steer the flagship Evangelical magazine Christianity Today, spoke at countless Evangelical conferences and local churches, mentored hundreds of future pastors through his seminary teaching, and lent his name to the back covers of more Evangelical books than probably any other Christian endorser ever.

In the late 70's, early 80's my son and I attend the Jews for Jesus Liberated Wailing Wall concerts whenever they sang at the local EP Church.

Paradoxically, the church must diminish the particularism of its various local, regional and national histories, but at the same time include them in the stories it tells, reinforcing its own authority as it does so.

A perusal of the Church of the Brethren Web pages provides clear evidence that a commitment to pacifism is not limited to denominational headquarters: the 48 churches of the Northern Indiana District Conference have joined to urge «the use of nonviolent approaches and interventions» in response to the terror; the Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, Church of the Brethren has adopted a statement in which they «remain committed to walk in the Jesus way of nonviolent love, in which evil can only be overcome with redemptive acts of love»; a group of Brethren Volunteer Service Workers have issued a statement in which they «advocate the use of nonviolent means to settle disputes» and «stand opposed to the increased drive toward militarization»; on October 7 members of local Brethren churches (along with Mennonites and others) organized a peace rally at the state capitol in Harrisburg, «Sowing Seeds of Peace: Prayers and Petitions for Nonviolent Action,» which attracted over 300 people.

Rather, the default position among local churches should not be to spare no expense in their construction, but to avoid church buildings at all costs.

In speculating on this image, I suggest that the reader bear in mind that no attempt has been made at a general discussion of Christian education whether in local church or elsewherIn speculating on this image, I suggest that the reader bear in mind that no attempt has been made at a general discussion of Christian education whether in local church or elsewherin mind that no attempt has been made at a general discussion of Christian education whether in local church or elsewherin local church or elsewhere.

Therefore it can become one potent source of inter-communal community in society outside the church also, a sort of secular koinonia and of the development of the ideology of a genuine secular human community at local, national and world levels in the modern pluralist context of many religions and cultures.

In a resolution approved Wednesday at their annual meeting, Southern Baptist leaders stopped short of urging churches to cut ties with local troops in protest of the Scouting change, but didn't encourage them to stay, eitheIn a resolution approved Wednesday at their annual meeting, Southern Baptist leaders stopped short of urging churches to cut ties with local troops in protest of the Scouting change, but didn't encourage them to stay, eithein protest of the Scouting change, but didn't encourage them to stay, either.

Nicholls, who is also a minister at Christ Church Haywards Heath in West Sussex, told Premier about the importance of local churches effectively reaching out to a community.

«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.»

William Cate has written that «Christian unity occurs at points of interchurch contact and relationship: it is not the creation of an ecumenical structure...» («Ecumenism Surges in Local Churches,» The Christian Century [March 14, 1984], p. 268).

At the local level laypersons are increasingly asserting their right to participate in the governance of the churches.

Even though such ordinary hallmarks of commitment as policy statements and printed materials are missing, one might argue that the church has actively sought a role in ministry at the local level.

For example, I know that on Fridays and during Ramadan, every day, there tends to be heavy traffic around mosques, particularly at sunset, and similarly on Jewish holidays around synagogues, and on Saturday afternoons around Catholic churches (because most have a Saturday afternoon service in addition to Sunday services); similarly, I keep a copy of the local pro and college sports team schedules handy, even though I only actively follow one sport.

The local church was very liberal in outlook and it came as a surprise to me at theological college to discover what other Anglicans believed.

Before the Revolution, Jefferson was a vestryman in his local church, a lay position that was informally tied to political office at the time.

In my own church, I see how several times during the month, groups of fellow Christians, armed with a list of local homes in disrepair, go at no cost to fix a front porch, or gutters, or save a poor widow from having her house condemneIn my own church, I see how several times during the month, groups of fellow Christians, armed with a list of local homes in disrepair, go at no cost to fix a front porch, or gutters, or save a poor widow from having her house condemnein disrepair, go at no cost to fix a front porch, or gutters, or save a poor widow from having her house condemned.

Pastor at New River Church and chaplain to the police in Edmonton, David Whisker, told Premier local people were in a state of shock.

We've been volunteering at a local health clinic in an attempt to be a blessing to the community and we've been observing the church calendar in order to stay grounded in the great tradition of the universal Cchurch calendar in order to stay grounded in the great tradition of the universal ChurchChurch.