Sentences with phrase «church leadership voted»

The church leadership voted to urge parishioners not to spend more than $ 100 per family on presents, to rely instead on simple homemade gifts and on presents of services — a back rub, stacking a cord of firewood.

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But simply put, if your leadership structure is such that it requires continual committee meetings that lead to business meetings where many people get to cast votes on the direction and decisions of the church and where Roberts Rules of Order trumps biblical spiritual authority, multi-site will most likely end in a train wreck!

After the vote, the majority, under the leadership of Ascension's rector John A. Pedler, assumed charge of the property and repainted the church's sign from «Episcopal» to «Anglican Catholic.»

When I was the only person in a church meeting of a hundred plus, who voted against spending thousands on a building (mainly because of dodgy fiscal justification and concerns over leadership empire building), I obviously became villein of the peace!

Here are some details about that November 2004 ballot proposal: 1) there was already in place a Utah law strictly banning same - sex marriage, which I fully supported; 2) all three candidates for the office of attorney general of Utah (the chief law - enforcement officer in the state) opposed the amendment, including the LDS (Mormon) Republican incumbent, Mark Shurtleff, mostly because they considered it a poorly drafted amendment; 3) I refused to endorse the amendment, but I did not urge people to vote «no»; 4) the leadership of the LDS Church, which has a record for being as strongly opposed to same - sex marriage as the Catholic Church, did not issue a statement urging its members to vote one way or the other; 5) inasmuch as two thirds of Utahans belong to the LDS Church, this means that the leadership of at least 80 percent of Utah churchgoers did not urge a «yes» vote on the amendment.

Community Involvement Greg Werkheiser for Delegate 2009 Tennessee State Democratic Party — Creating Opposition Research Team 2009 Young Adult leadership and member of Music City Guild at Belmont Church 2009 Nashville Food Not Bombs 2009 Get Out the Vote — Nashville for All of Us 2009 Get Out the Vote — Ann Peterson Hutto for State House 2008 LowCountry Food Bank 2007 James River Cleanup 2003, 2004 Project Leader, Rebuilding Together, Christmas in April 2003, 2004 VCU - Carver Promise Program 2003, 2004 Higher Education Bond Referendum Educator 2002 Voter Registration Drive 2002 -2008