Sentences with phrase «black congregations»

There are also numerous black congregations in predominantly white denominations; though these are properly covered by the rubric «black churches,» it is not with such congregations that this article is concerned.

Religion News Service: Black Southern Baptists try to keep expectations in check for first black SBC president With the Southern Baptist Convention poised to elect its first African - American president at its meeting next week in New Orleans, the mostly black congregation at Colonial Baptist Church is equal parts excited and astonished.

Most of the hearers were from small, poor, southern black congregations, but they were a people on the move.

Some early black congregations began as benevolent societies, and all of them were concerned for the welfare of the sick, the widowed and the orphaned.

Black congregations do things differently, and it was in churches that the organization and call to action of the Civil Rights movement took shape.

Washington (CNN)- Addressing his large, mostly black congregation on Sunday morning, the Rev. Wallace Charles Smith did not mince words about where he stood on President Barack Obama's newly announced support for same - sex marriage: The church is against it, he said, prompting shouts of «Amen!»

Certainly I present no theological objections to blacks» becoming members of white churches or to whites» becoming members of black congregations.

At the lectern, Mr. de Blasio told the church's black congregation about the launch of his universal pre-kindergarten plan and signing of a new executive order mandating higher wages at city - subsidized companies — peppering his speech with religious references, criticisms of the stop - and - frisk policing policy and expressions of sympathy for President Barack Obama and his struggles with the Republican - dominated Congress.

«The divisiveness must stop and New Yorkers will not be bystanders to the injustice,» Cuomo said during services at the Abyssinian Baptist Church, an historic black congregation in Harlem.

these black congregations are so full of hatred....

Fourth, each black congregation should assess the needs of its constituents within a certain radius of the church.

Yet there is a sense in which all black congregations and denominations respond to identical external circumstances and share common internal strengths, pressures and tensions.

It has been my ongoing involvement — as a pastor serving first a black congregation, then a Hispanic one, and now a largely West Indian and Haitian congregation — with the lives of inner - city families that has forced me to change the direction of my efforts as a public official.

Fortunately for Grisanti, black congregations will not have much of a chance to register their disapproval in November.

Clinton told a black congregation in North Carolina yesterday morning that her own grandchildren will never feel the fear that many African - American children do because they are white and privileged.

Instead, Bulworth tells the black congregation that the government doesn't care about them because they don't contribute enough money to re-election campaigns.

He says to a black congregation ``... if you can't cut down on malt liquor and chicken wings and get behind someone other than a running back who stabs his wife, you're never gonna get rid of me.»)

He continues to surprise throughout the story, and his speech to the black congregation is wonderful.