For church groups, effective marriage enrichment retreats can occur in
the church fellowship halls or lounges.
It's hard acknowledging the limits of a medium through which my own writing career has flourished, but I want you to know: The conversations we have here — as encouraging, informative, and life - changing as they can often be — are meant to be brought to dinner tables, coffee shops, AA meetings, parks,
church fellowship halls, long car rides, dorm rooms, and diners, among people who (whether they agree or disagree) can look you in the eye and take you in, not as a brand but as a human being.
That two - part question asked at every family reunion and inside every white - walled
church fellowship hall is: Do I write about myself, and do I get my characters from those who fill real - life roles in the crazy one - woman show that is my life?
Not exact matches
We will be doing our
fellowship service tonight in a community
hall, we were doing it at our
church for seven years, but we got kicked out, because we wer n`t getting the people to go to the sunday morning service.
Time and again, the assumption among Christian leaders, and evangelical leaders in particular, is that the key to drawing twenty - somethings back to
church is simply to make a few style updates - edgier music, more casual services, a coffee shop in the
fellowship hall, a pastor who wears skinny jeans, an updated Web site that includes online giving.
Then, after
church one Sunday, when the whole
church went to the
fellowship hall for lunch, she started yelling at my mom!
Time and again, the assumption among Christian leaders, and evangelical leaders in particular, is that the key to drawing twenty - somethings back to
church is simply to make a few style updates — edgier music, more casual services, a coffee shop in the
fellowship hall, a pastor who wears skinny jeans, an updated Web site that includes online giving.
I'd been invited by some friends to a fall youth rally at the First Baptist
Church, and in the
fellowship hall one night, the youth leader passed around neon blue and pink postcards that included a form letter to God promising to remain sexually abstinent until marriage.
In a meeting later hailed as «probably the most healthy conversation that ever occurred in the
church,» the congregation overwhelmingly voted not to take on the large debt of new construction but rather to remodel what they already had: a long, low
fellowship hall.
Sunday, May 3: Sunday worship, 10:25 a.m. (potluck luncheon after
church in the
fellowship hall) Evening lecture and Q&A, 7 p.m. (reception to follow)
We held it in our
church's
fellowship hall so that was free.
It will be presented in Trinity Episcopal
Church's
fellowship hall, 44 E. Market St. Bethlehem.