Sentences with phrase «communities is at the center»

A prestigious private school with powerful ties to the native Hawaiian community is at the center of a tangled and slowly unfolding controversy.

It sounds like educating local communities is at the center of your fight against the dam.

Not exact matches

We were a nation of joiners, sewing clubs, bridge, girl and boy scouts, church or other religious groups and bingo nights at the local community centers.

The goal now is to keep existing nuclear capabilities and form a relationship with the rest of the international community, says Tong Zhao, fellow at Carnegie - Tsinghua Center.

«Walmart's vision of the future is centered around people — by serving the communities people live in and the people who work at Walmart,» Walmart chief information officer Clay Johnson said in a statement.

This is true for all sorts of businesses, but I don't think it's true for one that aims to meet the underserved and most at risk where they are — in community centers, libraries, churches.

Speaking at schools and community centers across America, I was inspired to write this book when I saw an underserved need for a guide that would show aspiring and current entrepreneurs how to leverage their personal habits and goals to make themselves into the type of person a successful entrepreneur is.»

Republicans in the House of Representatives were told at a Monday night meeting that the stop - gap measure would extend funding through March 23, along with a year of defense funding and two years of funding for community health centers, lawmakers said.

From 2005 to 2014, the company received at least $ 613 million in local government subsidies to build warehouses and another $ 147 million for its data centers, according to a report by the Institute for Local Self - Reliance, a group that pushes for local resources to be dedicated to community development.

Former Intercept reporter Juan Thompson was arrested by the FBI on March 3 in connection with bomb threats made to at least eight Jewish community centers and schools and the Anti-Defamation League's Manhattan headquarters.

«If you look at more current information, you will see that these data points are not demonstrative of our current network, community impact, and both the direct and indirect job creation near fulfillment centers,» a company representative said previously, adding that «Amazon's investments led to the creation of 200,000 additional non-Amazon jobs, ranging from construction jobs to healthcare industry positions.»

Duysak is a former volunteer security guard at a Muslim community center in California, BuzzFeed reported.

«We are excited to be able to partner with Cumberland Advisors and the Global Interdependence Center to offer this event to members of our community again this year,» said Dr. James Curran, dean of the College of Business at USFSM.

The 180 - bed facility at 17250 SW 137th Ave. is owned by Jack Michel and Larkin Community Hospital, the same entities that operated the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills.

«We now know that young people who are going into the office for the first time are making decisions about who they work for not based on how much they're getting paid, but on the space design,» ASID president Randy Fiser told members of the design community at the recent Science of Design Conference at Liberty Science Center in New Jersey.

Community is at the core and center of coworking.

Deena Scott said the man she met all those years back has always been focused on giving back to the community, whether volunteering at their church, mentoring others or helping fold socks at a relief center.

Learn.co was built with community at its core, a true online campus centered on collaboration.

The prestigious competition begins every summer with Bojangles» certified biscuit makers rolling dough in local communities involving more than 600 Bojangles» restaurants across the Southeast, and concludes with the final round in the Research and Development Kitchen at the Bojangles» Support Center in Charlotte, N.C.. Following this year's competition, Roger Hudson, Jr. of Boiling Springs, N.C., was named Master Biscuit Maker representing Bojangles» company - owned restaurants, while Royce Vereen of Myrtle Beach, S.C. was awarded the honor for Bojangles» franchised locations.

Growing up, my parents were always busy working so I spent a lot of time at community centers.

Coming Home: Redwood Fire Rebuild Expo is a free all - day community - centered event geared at educating, informing, and connecting the communities affected by the recent fires with resilient, affordable rebuilding options.

At Zingerman's (an Ann Arbor, Michigan, community of food - related businesses that has worked closely with Wayne Baker, a colleague of ours in the Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship), information is as transparent as possible.

Also, I'd like to know if there was any talk at all about how they'd keep more extremist branches of muslims from holding classes, etc in their community center, will it be available for Christians and Jews and everyone else in the neighborhood to use without harrassment?

«At the center of biblical faith,» says Walter Brueggemann in a sermon on this passage, «is a command from God that curbs economic transactions by an act of communal sanity that restores everyone to proper place in the economy, because life in the community of faith does not consist of getting more but in sharing well.»

This chapter will present some ways in which the role of the staff clergyman is being worked out at the Hennepin County Comprehensive Community Mental Health Center with the hope that it will offer some suggestions for developing clergy roles in other centers.

My hope is this will communicate the message that all our congregations should be centers of compassion and care in the life of community, rather than simply pastoral chaplaincies serving only those who show up at our doors.

If we rejoice in rendering such practical service abroad, why should not our churches at home be centers of every conceivable kind of helpfulness in their communities?

Those who choose this approach must beware lest they end up as self - centered and self - righteous communities of upper middle class people playing at being poor, preoccupied with their own problems and contributing little or nothing to helping others or to resolving the world's problems.

Threats directed at Jewish people and Jewish community centers are increasing at alarming rates.

Each chapter discusses an aspect of the one theme that the central purpose of all education — whether in homes, schools, churches, business organizations, community agencies, or the mass media, and whatever the area of learning, whether science, art, health, or international relations — should be the transformation of persons from the life of self - centered desire to that of devoted service of the excellent, and at the same time the creation of a democratic commonwealth established in justice and fraternal regard rather than in expediency.

Holy Communion is becoming an open monastic community with contemplation at its center.

The Anti-Defamation League this week announced its opposition to a proposed mosque and community center at Ground Zero - a decision that is already provoking anger.

Question: Any christians out here that also defended the muslim community center to be built at ground zero?

Life in community, drama in worship, and action in the world have been expressions of Christian living, but at the center has been «the word of God.»

She was visiting her mom who was staying at an assisted living facility that was near the Jewish Community Center.

When we inquire further as to the concrete meaning of Jesus, after his death, within the life of the early Christian community, we find ourselves at once forced to deal with two theological issues of fundamental importance: the nature of the church and the nature of revelation; for the essential and permanent significance of Jesus lies in the fact that he was the center and head of the church and that he was the central figure in that revelation of God which we have received and by which we are saved.

Much more promising is the appearance here and there of day - care centers at the parents» workplace, and day care provided by parishes and temples where it serves the triple purpose of providing meaningful work for members of the community (especially older people), meeting a pressing need of the community's young couples, and beginning the religious education of the community's children.

The community center can and must be built at the Park51 site, he said.

This «Community Center» that they want to build at ground zero is a disgrace to this nation.

But at the end of the day it's a community that's center is Jesus and spends time on friendship, worship, prayer and sharing.

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(CNN)- A Missouri man, with a long virulent history of anti-Semitism, is suspected of killing a boy and his grandfather outside a Jewish community center in Kansas City and a woman at a Jewish assisted living facility nearby.

In September 1980 a Gallup poll published in Newsweek — one which Jerry Falwell repudiated in an interview — indicated that the evangelical community is divided in this way: left of center, 20 per cent; at center, 31 per cent; right of center, 37 per cent.

For the faith of the community arose from, and was centered upon, the conviction that in the life of Jesus, and especially in the death and resurrection of Jesus, God was at work, decisively and uniquely.

At the same time, I thought that the Imam repeatedly referring to «national security» as a reason to keep the Community Center where it is planned was disingeneous.

Any congregation that is committed to Christian action in its community needs to have at its center or very close to it, a group of men and women prepared to be — to use military language — the reconnaissance and intelligence force of the main body.

The conclusion is inescapable that there was in general a twofold origin of the church, with two centers in Palestine from the lifetime of Jesus down at least to the war under Hadrian, in Galilee, and down to the war under Nero and later, in Judea — and then on into the following centuries, when successive conquest and exodus scattered the little Christian communities far and wide, down to the Mohammedan conquest in the seventh century, and even to this day.

But such a postpatriarchal community would be truly a church only if Christ remains at its center.

As the apostolic Church it is the function of the Christian community to proclaim to the great human societies, with all the persuasiveness and imagination at its disposal, with all the skill it has in becoming all things to all men, that the center and heart of all things, the first and last Being, is utter good.

In our training programs for community clergymen at the Pennsylvania Hospital Community Mental Health Center we have been interested in mutual exchange: (1) We believe that psychiatry and its allied professions can help the clergyman do a better job with his healing ministry (at the bottom of the cliff)(2) We believe clergymen have something unique to contribute to psychiatry in the whole business of prevention (building fences at the top of tcommunity clergymen at the Pennsylvania Hospital Community Mental Health Center we have been interested in mutual exchange: (1) We believe that psychiatry and its allied professions can help the clergyman do a better job with his healing ministry (at the bottom of the cliff)(2) We believe clergymen have something unique to contribute to psychiatry in the whole business of prevention (building fences at the top of tCommunity Mental Health Center we have been interested in mutual exchange: (1) We believe that psychiatry and its allied professions can help the clergyman do a better job with his healing ministry (at the bottom of the cliff)(2) We believe clergymen have something unique to contribute to psychiatry in the whole business of prevention (building fences at the top of the cliff)