Sentences with phrase «church workers by»

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The workers lived in boardinghouses and attended church, both built by Merrimack.

A special church service is being held later in Port Talbot in solidarity with the workers hit by the... More

However this has not even got close to the number of youth workers employed by the church, which is estimated to exceed 7,000.

The church, with pride and joy, salutes a new humanity, where honor will no longer be accorded to the money accumulated by the few, but to the workers and peasants.

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.

The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.

The main objectives of this Consultation were to analyze globalization and its impact on human rights; to study ethical and theological considerations with regard to globalization; to search for alternative development paradigms; to study the policies of developed nations on development and trade policies in the context of globalization; to gain inputs on the experiences of indigenous people, workers and farmers who are affected by globalization; to consider the response of the Churches to the challenges posed by globalization and to study and identify concerns that the Asian churches can take up in order to address the adverse impact of globalization in the Asian Churches to the challenges posed by globalization and to study and identify concerns that the Asian churches can take up in order to address the adverse impact of globalization in the Asian churches can take up in order to address the adverse impact of globalization in the Asian context.

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.

I do remember sharing with the Latino workers next to the Vineyard church, and being rejected by the Vineyard second - tier leadership with perplexity....

Following Bonhoeffer's exposition of the Sermon on the Mount, he gives an exposition of Matthew 9:35 - 10:42.39 Short vignettes are drawn of the harvest (the people are without a shepherd, without relief, deliverance, and forgiveness) for which one must pray for laborers; the call of the apostles (who are given power stronger than Satan's and are bound together only by their choice and call); the work (fulfilling their commission to preach, traveling as messengers of the King, living in «royal poverty,» warning men of the urgency of the times); the suffering of the messengers (as Jesus was persecuted so the messengers will be, but they are forewarned; because Christ will return the disciples are not to fear man, or to be gullible in thinking that «there is good in every man «40); the decision (man's eternal destiny is determined by his decision on earth for the devil or for Christ); and the fruit (the disciples are fellow workers having as their goal the «salvation of the Church»).41

UCA news reported that Fathers Chen Jun, Gao Binglong, Ma Ning and Shen Xuezhong and several laypeople were assaulted by security officers and workers who came to demolish the property hat was returned to the church four years ago.

At this center, former sex workers come to earn a dignified income by making handcrafts sold through local churches.

In Cleveland, two shelters for battered women have been staffed by Catholic nuns and professional social workers; support has come from churches, private donations, block grants and a special surcharge on Ohio marriage licenses.

Whether among the secularized masses of industrial societies, the emerging new ideologies around which societies are organized, the resurging religions which people embrace, the movements of workers and political refugees, the people's search for liberation and justice, the uncertain pilgrimage of the younger generation into a future both full of promise and overshadowed by nuclear confrontation - the Church is called to be present and to articulate the meaning of God's love in Jesus Christ for every person and for every situation.

A similar enterprise at the Evangelical Academy at Bad Boll, near Stuttgart, Germany, has made a significant start toward bridging the gap between the Church and the industrial worker by inviting representatives of the Trade Unions and Workers» Councils, including sometimes communists, to discuss the implications of Christianity, while on other occasions employers and Workers» Council leaders have met together for mutual discussion of the applications of the gospel to industry.

CCPAS CEO, Simon Bass, said: «Last year's conference was exceptionally well received by a wide variety of people involved in keeping children and adults safe, from police officers to social workers, across organisations from churches to missionary agencies.

Warning the seminaries against complacency, he points out that «the churches are demanding many new types of workers» who, he seems to suggest, may well be supplied not by the seminaries but by «Bible schools and religious training schools,» the «recent growth» of which means that they «now enroll as many students as all the seminaries».

Doubt, frustration, and the day - to - day inconveniences brought (ironically) by relief workers challenge the church's witness.

In observance of the fifth anniversary of these institutes, the First American Convocation on Church Growth was held last winter; it was attended by more than 400 pastors, spouses and lay workers.

Teens used to be discipled by people with ordinary jobs in the ordinary world, now they are increasingly being discipled by church - paid workers in jobs that very few of them will do.

... Our church would be run by social workers, nurses, teachers, program coordinators, and public health professionals.

Community leaders, unions and churches are backing a call for the club to increase the pay of workers employed by contractors, such as waitresses and cleaners.

Mike Ashley's Sports Direct has been chastised by the Church of England over the treatment of factory workers and governance failings at the retailer, it can be revealed.

If religious institutions are so keen on unionizing workers why don't they start by unionizing the workers that work for their various organizations and affiliated institutions (churches, schools, hospitals, etc...)?

Workers» Rights Forum Hosted by State Senator Gustavo Rivera, Assemblymember Victor Pichardo and Laundry Workers Center on August 20, 2015 at the church of St. Simon Stock

Sarsour served as emcee for the 5,000 - strong rally and musical celebration called «Rise Up: Immigrant Rights and Workers» Rights,» organized by the New York Immigration Coalition, Make the Road New York, New York Teamsters and Churches United for Fair Housing.

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.

This is the role for professionally - trained social and welfare workers accredited by the appropriate professional organisation and not a fundamentalist Church organisation like the Scripture Union and Access Ministries.

Led by Roebuck «Pops» Staples, a blue - collar worker who taught his children church hymns and Delta blues tunes on his $ 10 guitar, Staples and her siblings Cleotha, Pervis, and eventually Yvonne formed the Chicago - based family band and took their living room gospel tunes to the road.

A virtual village with homes, shops, schools and churches for workers and their families, the West Point Foundry was immortalized by Jules Verne in his novel From the Earth to the Moon.

After completing his studies of Social Work and Social Sciences at the Lutheran University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg, he was employed as a social worker by the Protestant church community in his hometown.He trained as a psychotherapist in Switzerland focusing on body therapy.

Heartland Family Service was founded as the Christian Workers Association in 1875 by representatives from eight different Omaha churches in order to minimize duplication and deliver services effectively.