Sentences with phrase «church workers»

She enjoys conducting workshops and retreats for church workers and their families.

We should remember that it was the limited effectiveness of church workers in the settlement house movement and other voluntary, local efforts in the 1880s that led to the large - scale government social programs of the 20th century.

Church workers in the South face the complex challenge of empowering peasants in the countryside or urban barrio dwellers to host an encounter in a way that allows them to feel equal to the northerners.

No, the cardinal had used the occasion of an Ash Wednesday statement to declare that he would instruct his priests and other church workers not to cooperate with any federal regulation requiring citizens to snitch on illegal immigrants.

She is one of many foreign church workers who believe the Holy Land can nourish two peoples and three faiths.

On the other hand, my participation in the common good is served far more by living in a community of retired church workers with whom I share many interests and commitments and who care for one another and help one another through the difficulties of aging and dying.

Church workers told us many grim tales of the Tonton Macoutes and of this legalized Mafia's hold on the people.

The government's hostility towards church and relief organizations was particularly pronounced: In the period November 13 — December 14, there were 54 searches of 40 different church facilities and homes of church workers by Salvadoran military and security forces.

More and more U.S. church workers are being deported from El Salvador or barred from entry; reportedly the ARENA regime has a list of personae non gratae that includes such notables as Archbishops Rembert Weakland of Milwaukee and John Quinn of San Francisco.

A United Methodist mission team from South Carolina came to El Estribo, a poor village in southern Honduras, and insisted on handing out $ 50 in U.S. money to each family (single mothers excluded) despite objections by local church workers.

Paul Robinson, the Chief Executive of Release International said: «In states across India, militants have threatened and killed church workers.

The six - hospital system was founded by Bishop James B. Funsten, who acted on an immediate need to provide care to retired Episcopal Church workers.

Last year he received widespread media attention when he declared that he would engage in civil disobedience rather than comply with a law requiring him to report illegal immigrants, and he directed priests and other church workers to follow his lead.

Indeed, the Texas attorney general handed down a legal opinion last summer stating that state law required him to prosecute clergy and church workers who failed to report suspicion of child abuse or neglect.

Throughout both the Dominican Republic and Haiti, church workers told us that a new spirit is permeating the people.

Growing Kids Ministry is designed for church workers, parents, and teachers who want to see kids grow to love the Lord.

Incidents of church workers being beaten, threatened and killed as well as churches and Christian schools being bombed, torched, vandalised and demolished are all included in the report.

These church workers also recognize structural obstacles to black achievement: poor schools; the lack of business investment; and a welfare system that breaks up families, fosters dependency and strips recipients of their dignity.

A church worker in Beijing repeated to me the tale of a church that had worshipped in a cave during the Cultural Revolution.

Each reader, whose technology is run by the London - based fintech company SumUp, needs a «merchant», most likely a Church worker, to input each transaction, and a probable scenario will see members of the congregation walking past a manned device as they enter or leave a service or event.

In England there is the National Marriage Guidance Council, a secular organization, in which the church and church workers are playing an important role; this means that the work is in fact on an ecumenical basis.

Individual pastors or commended «full - time» church workers may have their personal convictions on how they are financially supported.

It's one of those posts that has spoken directly to me and you can take at least a little comfort in knowing you have blessed myself as a church worker (parish evangelist) in the midst of all the crap going on in my life.

As a church worker I can tell you there is no financial gain in the business; I take a very poor wage so we can send money abroad.

Church worker?

The leading character is Mrs. Turpin who is a good woman, a church worker, a friend of the poor and homeless, and a good wife to her husband, Claud.

They began to generate support from lawyers, students, professionals, and church workers.

I never did trash the church either, but it certainly took me much, much longer than you to be grateful for what I DID learn as a church worker and to see it as a positive force in my life.

Not long ago a church worker of a denomination very active in this country was interviewed on the radio.

The official said the fire caused a major destruction to the building, and church workers have been advised to stay away from the premises in the interim.

I am a music minister and hospitality coordinator at an E&R church, so I understand the foibles of being a church worker.

Erin performs clergy assessments and enjoys working with church workers and their families through their lives in ministry.

I am a music minister and hospitality coordinator at an E&R church, so I understand the foibles of being a church worker.

My parents have always been church workers (and still are) and so it was a given that the three of us kids were in the Sunday School Christmas Service each year.