Sentences with phrase «church chairman of»

I'm the church chairman of a slowly dying church.

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He is also the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Lansing United Church in Toronto, Canada.

He served as chairman of the department for external relations of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and first deputy chairman of the educational committee of the Moscow Patriarchate.

Speaking after the documentary Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, the peer and former chairman of the Conservative Party, said British Muslims had made more progress in changing their attitudes on various social issues since they arrived in Britain in the 1950s than the Church of England and the Conservative Party had over the same period.

The Rev. David L. Norgard, who is openly gay and is chairman of the national church's Standing Commission on Evangelism, says, «I'm thoroughly convinced, and hold it as a point of faith, that in the long run people are turned off by a church that excludes.»

Dr. Clemons is professor of New Testament at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C., and chairman of the Commission on Church and Society at Chevy Chase, Maryland.

Sovereign Grace Ministries (SGM), a network of Reformed church plants in 21 countries still dealing with the aftermath of an internal investigation of founder and president C. J. Mahaney's leadership, now faces allegations that its president and board chairman, among other leaders, covered up child sex abuse by church members.

«The City Council's action today is not the final word,» said Bishop Harry Jackson, pastor of Hope Christian Church in Beltsville and chairman of a group called Stand4MarriageDC.

Following on missives from Catholics to House Speaker John Boehner, from Catholics and evangelicals to Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan and from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to Congress as a whole, Protestant leaders such as the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, Katharine Jefferts Schori, are advancing the argument that the GOP budget is an immoral document.

Mr. Caldwell, minister of First United Methodist Church, New Haven, Connecticut, also serves as lecturer at Yale University divinity school and as chairman of the board, National Conference of Black Churchmen.

The initiative is called the National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management, and the moving spirit here is Geoffrey Boisi, a major player in New York financial circles and former chairman of the board of Boston College.

Even a letter can not be answered without con - suiting the encyclopedia, the church secretary, the chairman of the board, or the Heidelberg Catechism.

She has been active in the national life of the Church of England, serving for many years on General Synod's Standing Committee, including sitting on the panel of chairmen.

Chairman of the Ware British Legion, George Rist, told the Hertfordshire Mercury: «What is it that gives these know - nothings the God - given right to walk into a church and steal money that is going towards helping the poor girls and boys coming back from war - torn countries?

However, Albert Scott, one of Rockefeller's advisers and also chairman of the board of trustees of New York's Riverside Church, argued the same point that had been argued by the minority in the Akron meeting at the Williams home — that money, property, and professionalism might «spoil this thing» (DR. BOB and the Good Oldtimers, pp. 134 - 35).

The issue started with an online petition was posted to demand that Starbucks Chairman and CEO, Howard Schultz withdraw from speaking at the Willow Creek Leadership Summit due to the church's «history [of] anti-gay persecution.»

Franklin Fry, chairman of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches emphasized this at the Ghana Assembly when he said that «the union of the two groups is not only natural but is called for by theological consistency».

At Uppsala, M.M. Thomas from India, was elected as Chairman of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches.

After 25 years in seminary education, Clymer is particularly well equipped to handle his present responsibilities as chairman of the committee which functions as a liaison between the church's Council of Bishops and the denomination's ten seminaries.

On September 24, 1949, Georgii Karpov, chairman of the agency that provided «liaison» to the Russian Orthodox Church for the NKVD, the Soviet secret police, wrote Josef Stalin and his chief henchmen a confidential letter reeking with self - congratulation.

Wahlberg's claim that the Apostle Peter's «first successors might have been something like the leaders or chairmen of the presbyterial college at Rome» is belied by the careful scholarship of Peter Lampe, who, as we point out in our book, «developed the «fractionation thesis» to illustrate the house - church - decentralized flavor of the city along with its various Christian districts.»

Christian congregations in particular have skyrocketed since churches began reopening when Chairman Mao's death in 1976 signalled the end of the Cultural Revolution.

He was an Anglican delegate to the ecumenical Faith and Order Conference in L927, which sought the reunion of the Christian churches, and its chairman in 1937.

When we arrived in the rubble city, West Berlin, Martin did not go first to find his son, but to the home of Ludwig, Bartning, the architect who as chairman of the board of Jesus Christ Church had, resisted brutal Nazi pressures and had housed Else and the children in the Dahlem parsonage.

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Department of External Church Relations for the Moscow Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, called on the «world community to join efforts in order to find the abducted hierarchs as soon as possible,» and prayed for peace to be «re-established in the ancient land of Syria and for Christianity to keep developing there.»

The former Conservative Party chairman Lord Fowler is urging the government to stop the Church of England... More

William Rainey Harper, who founded the university in 1892, had counted among his close friends Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch, the first professor of rabbinical literature and philosophy; John Henry Barrows, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church and permanent chairman of the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions; and Mrs. Caroline E. Haskell, who donated to the university the Haskell Lectureship on Comparative Religion and the Haskell Oriental Museum.

The administrative board continued to postpone a decision about construction, and, tired of the mounting difficulties of Wiltshire Church, the chairman of the board resigned his post.

The Russian union of Evangelical Christian - Baptists (RUECB) released a statement with portions of a letter of condolence from their chairman, Yuri Sipko: «During [the»90s] the voice of the Russian Orthodox Church was the voice of peace and hope.

At a 1974 meeting of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches in West Berlin the chairman, Dr. M. M. Thomas, said almost wistfully, at the conclusion of an address insisting (these were not his terms) on the inseparability of the Word of God and the word of earth: «I sometimes wish... that we could interpret (the theme) «Christ only» as withdrawal from these many worlds and many responsibilities.

On January 29, authorities also arrested on «corruption» charges CCC Chairman Li Guanzhong in Pujiang County, Zhejiang, who served as senior pastor of Puyang Christian Church in Jinhua.

Once during that period the chairman of the church's official board asked me why I never preached on any of the New Testament passages which I was so exhaustively exegeting.

According to Sami Minhas, chairman of the Muthida (United) Christian Movement in Sahiwal, local police have advised the church members not to press charges on the alleged attackers «because doing so would create further tensions between local Muslims and Christians, the latter of whom are poor and few in number».

Rev. Daniel Matos - Real, 47, pastor of Agape Christian Church of Chicago and chairman of the Coalition of Latin American Ministers, was appointed by Mayor Richard M. Daley and confirmed by the City Council on Wednesday.

He was chairman of the board of elders of Our Redeemer Lutheran Church in Prospect Heights and a board member of the Lutheran Home and Service for the Aged in Arlington Heights.

In lieu of flowers contributions to the Disabled Jockey's Endowment, C / O Don Farrar, Chairman, 1540 S. Louis St., Anaheim, CA 92805 - 6423, Cancer Center at Lutheran General Hospital, 1775 Dempster, Park Ridge, 60068 or to St. Peter Lutheran Church, appreciated.

Introducing the report, John Pritchard, Bishop of Oxford and chairman of the Church of England board of education, argued that Church schools are «absolutely and irrevocably at the heart of our mission», and explained that they are working on a new curriculum that will mean that «the Christian faith right the way through its life, not just in RE and collective worship.»

Percy described the move as a» pretty transparent» maneuver to insure his defeat so that Republican conservatives could install Senator Jesse Helms, an arch-conservative Republican of North Carolina, as chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee — a post held by Percy in the Republican - controlled Senate since 1981 when he succeeded Idaho's Frank Church.

Nana Akufo - Addo, who visited 6 churches in the Takoradi and Effia constituencies, on Sunday, February 14, the first Sunday of Lent, also asked for prayers for the NPP and for the families of the late Ben Kwaw, acting Chairman of the Western region, and the Hon. JB Danquah Adu, the late MP for Abuakwa North, so God consoles them in their time of grief.

Chairman of the Christian Council of Ghana, Right Reverend Professor Emmanuel Martey expressed disappointment over factionalism and commercialisation of churches that had clouded the propagation of the truth message from God.

Field is a practising Anglican, a former chairman of the Churches Conservation Trust, and a member of the Church of England General Synod.

The chairman of the BBC Trust said criticising the Commons» influential public accounts committee was «the equivalent of swearing in church» - before mounting an uncompromising attack on MPs» report into severance packages at the BBC.

· Welcome Remarks: Ned McCormack, Director of Communications / Senior Advisor · Presentation of the Colors: Westchester County Department of Public Safety Ceremonial Unit, The Pipes and Drums of the Police Emerald Society of Westchester and Hawthorne Boy Scout Troop 1 of the Westchester Putnam Council · Pledge of Allegiance: Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey · Laying of the Wreath and Remarks: County Executive Robert P. Astorino, 9/11 Family member Rosaleen O'Neill and Boy Scout Troop 1 members Robert Garan, Christian Falco and Sean Healy · Remarks: Board of Legislators Chairman Ken Jenkins · God Bless America: Luciano Lamonarca, tenor · Reading of the Names: 9/11 family members and elected officials · Benediction: Bishop W. Darin Moore, Greater Centennial A.M.E. Zion Church, Mount Vernon · Amazing Grace: Luciano Lamonarca, tenor · Viewing of The Rising and Circle of Remembrance

The Rev. Charles Coverdale, the pastor of the church and Family Community Life Center chairman, said such a figure would kill the project.

Apostle Onyina of The Chairman of the Church of Pentecost, Apostle Dr. Opoku Onyina, has expressed concern about the use of inflammatory and offensive language in Ghana's political discourse and urged a paradigm shift ahead of the 2016 election year.

Most Reverend Professor Emmanuel Asante, former Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church of Ghana and Chairman of the National Peace Council;

Clegg was ordained as a deacon in the United Methodist Church in 2007, has served on the board of directors of the Rip Van Winkle Council of the Boy Scouts of America for 10 years, has been a member of the Ulster County Board of Health and is chairman of the Ulster County Human Rights Commission.

The acting chairman of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Freddy Blay, on Sunday urged Christians at the Muzama Disco Christo Church to at least continue praying for President John Mahama till after the elections, by which time he would have been defeated and kicked out of office.

Founder and General Overseer of the INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Babatunde Elijah Ayodele, has predicted that ousted Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Ahmed...