Sentences with phrase «call to serve»

Kassebaum: In 1991, Don, Sr., was feeling the call to serve the poor and needy.

Throughout history mariners have always answered the call to serve, whether in time of war or peacetime emergencies.

Named for the Partnership for Public Service's late founder who was inspired by President Kennedy's call to serve in 1963, these awards align with his vision of a dynamic and innovative federal workforce that meets the needs of the American people.

Catholic schools also are critically answering the call to serve the poor, and not just the Catholic poor, as both educational and community institutions.

Our positive, energetic and dedicated faculty don't merely «work» at Lawrence, but rather answer a call to serve.

As demand grows charter school leaders are answering the call to serve more students.

OPA has answered the call to serve an unmet student need while these boards are sending a message that parent choice and high quality charter schools are not valued in North San Diego County.

«Election to the academy is both an honor for extraordinary accomplishment and a call to serve,» said Academy President Leslie C. Berlowitz.

Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie) would rather enjoy life as a recreational tomb raider instead of answering the call to serve her country and the world.

While many of us may think of a calling as a call to serve a religious order, Levoy is referring to the aliveness we feel when there is a fit between who we are and what we do.

Earlier in his remark, the Vice President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Professor Yemi Osinbajo admonished the new monarch not to see his position as a clarion call to serve his subjects not only in Ile - Ife but in the entire world as the ancient town represents the cradle of black race and human civilization.

Hochul said to her, «Thank you for accepting the call to serve once again when the governor asked you help spearhead this effort.»

«The governor has been a strong champion for our party's shared ideals and I have been proud to answer his call to serve as chair of the party.»

«These sailors answered the call to serve this nation and defend its values, and we will be forever grateful for their service and their sacrifice.

«President Buhari commends the former Vice President's entrepreneurial spirit in setting up the first indigenous architectural firm in Nigeria, spreading its tentacles to more than 16 cities, until he accepted the national call to serve his fatherland in 1979 after a long commitment in building his community.

«It truly has been my pleasure to work with the county administration, the other professional department heads and the dedicated workers throughout County government in my call to serve the indigent in distress in our county family courts,» Furno said.

«These sailors answered the call to serve this nation and defend its values, and we will be forever grateful for their service and their sacrifice,» Cuomo said.

Believe Midwifery Services, LLC exists as a result of God's call to serve women and their families with wisdom during a most precious, exciting and life changing time.

I would say that one segment or tradition within the church has «recognized» or «affirmed» your sense of call; maybe they were even the vessel through which God's call to serve as an elder came.

As to the call to serve... I do understand (I think) what you mean.

It was suggested at the outset that in addition to the call to serve human need, to seek truth, and to work for a better society, every Christian is called to worship God.

The members of the team are on call to serve when the need arises at the discretion of the pastor.

When a community does not grow in love and grace When their embrace does not enlarge When they forget how to be generous and hospitable When they ignore the call to serve Then They are the ones who are leaving Saying goodbye to their hearts Receding into the past Sinking into irrelevance

It is inconceivable to me that Paul can be quoted by modern male chauvinists as the biblical authority for excluding women from accepting God's call to serve others in the name of Christ, when Paul himself encouraged and congratulated inspired women who were prominent — to use his own descriptions — as deacons, apostles, ministers and saints.

For not every retirement is a good retirement, any more than a particular call to serve a congregation can or will be inevitably and necessarily a «good call.»

First, because protecting time to be quiet and alone can seem like indifference to Christ's call to serve; and second, because diving into such depths has always involved the risk of encountering God.

Yet as a new generation of Christians heeds God's call to serve «the least of these» in our society, let's stop for a moment and reflect upon our approach to serving with those living in poverty.

That hope was based, like our own, on confidence that God would not abandon, even in death, those whose lives had been centered upon him and who had responded faithfully to his call to serve him.

«It's encouraging to see the American church understands God's call to serve and care for refugees and foreigners, but what's needed now is action,» said Richard Stearns, president of World Vision.

It is therefore with humility and the desire to obey the call to serve, in whatever way the Church asks of me, that I have accepted this appointment.

In this conflict, hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops have been called to serve overseas since March 2003.

We went to Liberia because we believe God called us to serve Him at ELWA Hospital.

So Mayne, like the bishop who called him to serve, is a volunteer who works for the church on top of his full - time corporate communications job.

Mormon's are not eager to go to war but if called to serve we don't shrink from our duty.

We are called to serve others.

It will be about God and his Church; to be called to serve them in love and humility through ordained ministry is a privilege beyond imagination for a Christian, and I hope and pray that my future service to all God's people will reflect that trust.

I want to ask them if they were called to serve the Lord or to serve themselves.

The doctrine can (theoretically) have teeth at several points: refusal to obey an unjust order, «selective conscientious objection» when called to serve an unjust cause, suing for peace when one can not win without using unjust means, prosecuting a war crime.

Since we receive this gift from God, the Creator of all, he calls us to serve him and one another in fashioning more nearly to his purposes an unfinished world.

It is vital that we realize that leadership does not place us higher than others, but lower than others because we are called to serve them.

Each of these ecclesial traditions, among others, has enriched my life and calling to serve the Body of Christ.

If members do not learn what it means to belong to «the Body of Christ» through service to one another, they will have little inclination to see or believe that the church is called to serve the world.

It is called to serve as a model for a society founded not on metaphysical truth claims but on the overturning and transgressing of all such claims for the sake of harmonious and loving coexistence.

We are all called to serve, not just pastors.

To save individual souls and leave this suffering and injustice unchanged could not, they believed, fulfill their calling to serve Christ.

He loved them anyway and called them to serve others.

My heart tore at me when I read the ad and I felt truly convicted about a stinky attitude that surfaced in my heart this week: it is a lack of genuine compassion for the very people God has called me to serve.

It is this gospel that I, Paul, have also been called to serve (Col 1:15 - 23).

She can not take the sacrament (known in many Christian churches as Communion), receive a calling to serve the church or give talks in the church.

Men and women are called to serve each other in various ways, and women who refuse to pornify themselves, especially in the face of strong cultural pressures and incentives to do so, honor themselves and others of their sex while also honoring those of us of the opposite sex.