Sentences with phrase «community of folks»

Opportunities Knocking is a community of folks interested in learning how to enhance their careers through informative presentations, in person networking with a new spin, and personalized career coaching.

They are a solid community of folks that share the same values, goals, and objectives of providing a level of excellence in customer service that is unsurpassed by any other agency.

We haven't yet seen an effective, mainstream portal that bridges the gap between that large community of folks that want to buy green services and products and the sellers that are trying to reach them.

It's definitely a great community of folks so I'm glad you were able to join a few.

Here in the Golden Gate National Parks, one incredible community of folks stands out and absolutely shines — our PARK VOLUNTEERS.

Yehoodi is a community of folks from around the world that are passionate about lindy hop, swing dancing and swing jazz.

I left my farm in 2010 and have been traveling, looking for a new home with a good community of folks.

That's great if you don't mind being in a community of folks who may or may not have an STD, but you may not feel comfortable sharing your picture or searching for other members if you aren't sure what their health status is, either.

Finally, in fall 2007, nine years after his run - in with Dursban, Killingsworth applied for Social Security disability, packed his belongings, and drove west in his Honda Civic to search for housing among a community of folks like himself — all suffering from what is loosely called «environmental illness» — in the remote high desert of Arizona.

But as a nearly lifelong resident of Saratoga County, I know and appreciate Saratoga Springs more for its people; the community of folks who give so much of themselves to make this City a better place.

It sounds like Todd Stiefel and his wife are searching for a community of folks who are less «tribal» than are atheist or theist communities.

Not exact matches

But he thinks it'll need to open up more to the scientific community to «win the trust of folks that would be deciding whether to refer [patients] to Theranos versus LabCorp or Quest.»

Lots of folks are rallying around the young professional community because they see this is the next generation of leadership.

«Since I've been with the Korean War Veterans Association, we have a lot of interactions with the Korean community here, so we've gotten to know the folks real well,» Keep said.

Among those who reached out already were the folks behind Houzz, «community of homeowners and home professionals.»

As early as 2004, researchers were noting a new cross-generational cohort made up of digitally savvy folks who create and curate content, build online communities and find and consume products in distinct ways.

The folks in and around the Duluth metro area know how to rock the vote — more than 70 % of residents 18 and older turn out on Tuesdays to cast a ballot, according to data from the American Community Survey.

Now is the time for us all to recognize and respect the all - out effort, skill and determination of the folks getting communities, large and small, back on their feet.

It has drawn many folks in because of its easy access to highways running in all directions, and keeps people's interest because of its many options for entertainment, dining, recreation activities, and community.

They say that the patterns of worship and religious education seem designed to preserve the connections to the countries from which their Muslim communities emigrated, while these young folks want their faith to guide them in their lives in America.

In our community we have a bit of vision casting, but it really is more for helping folks navigate us when they first find us.

So now, with the Facebook community dispersing multitudes of articles each day, it's easy for older folks to take factual news for granted.

It reminds me of stories of folks letting people stay in their apartments in New York at the time of 9/11 and how the community came together in mourning ant the Clutha helicopter disaster in Glasgow.

I know that most people in my worshiping community have never heard of these folks — they're too busy housing homeless folks, working with the Interfaith Food Shuttle, and practicing the Prayer of Examen in our small groups.

A few years ago when people were writing books critiquing what many of us were trying to do with our churches, I would regularly contact these folks and invite them to come and spend some time with our community or stay at my house and we could talk about all their concerns.

I'm convinced that one thing folks from my generation long for is the chance to talk openly and honestly about our faith, our doubts, our questions, our ideas, our struggles, our joys, etc. in the context of a faith community.

The Congregationalists could not escape the question of ministering to frontier folks because many of their own people had early left the settled communities of New England and had pushed north and west into the great space of New York State.

Several folks in the comment section argued that one can not seriously follow Jesus in the context of suburbia, and that true Christians will sell their belongings, move to the inner - city, and live in intentional community among the poor.

the attack on 9/11 was not carried out by muslims, it was by some crazy folks that had huge hatred, with muslim names... if such a community is opened, it wud educate people what islam is, instead of getting mislead by fake knowledge....

Certainly he knew many of those folks were still alive — and within the Roman Empire (especially the tight knit Jewish community) travel & correspondence were a given.

Not all Christians will follow the lead of the new monastics to create intentional communities in abandoned places of empire, but those that do, such as the folks at Camden House in New Jersey, can teach the rest of us a lot — for example, about environmental racism.

Other folks in the EC community feel that Adam and Eve are typological figures, such as a representation of the failure of Israel to keep the covenant.

My personal experience with folks in that particular community is that they LOVE this country, they are so happy to be here, and most of them raise their kids to be pretty Americanized.

Morality and ethics, like religion and theology, are observable in this literature, but they can be recovered only with a method capable of identifying moral values in what began as folk or community literature before it was made normative as religious canon.

If prophecy belief defined a community of like - minded and socially similar folk, it also erected a ladder of status within the family.

More importantly, when atrocities happen in a subset of our community, why not let those folks know you hear them and you are with them?

Folks, a lot of Christians in this discussion seem to be pleading not to paint the entire christian community in bad light, just cos of the deeds of one person.

In the space of a single generation Christian communities were established in most of the eastern provinces of the Roman empire, and as far west as Italy: a remarkable achievement for a society which started with a handful of humble folk from the small towns of a petty «native state».

Religious institutions may be caught in the middle of such changes: pro-Western religious orientations may suddenly become unpopular because of changes in trading alliances, peasants may turn to millenarian or folk religions to revitalize economically threatened communities, communist or nationalist movements among oppressed urban workers may strike out at traditional religious organizations, and so on.7

Mastering the faculty's language, learning how to debate within the school's ideological limits, negotiating the foibles and passions of teachers and other students, figuring out how to be accepted in this community and then how to relate to the folks back home — this struggle can be debilitating as well as exhilarating.

For myself, many of the «confessing and worshiping communities of God», while they are filled with well meaning, lovely, faithful folk, fail to «stimulate and incite» and tend towards actually stifling and diverting away from «love and helpful deeds and noble activities».

But the concern I feel is over those aspects within the «confessing and worshiping community of God» (or at least the supposedly «valid» systematic expressions of it) which are leading many good, strong, intelligent and educated folk to forsake meeting together under their auspices.

After years of those outside of the Christian Faith define all Christians as cloistered now someone inside of the community writes a se - x book and folks are up in arms again.

A Nativity play gathers echoes from folk memories — and not just from Britain — and taps into a need to mark the seasons of the year, our sense of community and a recognition that we are not spiritual and cultural orphans.

It had nothing to do with blessing a government or building an army — or creating a gated community of white folks in North America 2,000 years in the future.

Citing a mountain of statistical data that shows women are more inclined than men to remain faithful to their religious affiliation and participate regularly in communities of faith, some folks — like controversial West Coast pastor Mark Driscoll — have declared the situation a «crisis,» concluding that the Church has failed men by projecting a «Richard Simmons, hippie, queer Christ» instead of the true, «Ultimate Fighting Jesus.»

White middle - class folk especially value community for the personal nurture it promises us, while we ignore its challenge of political and economic justice.

The more ritualized yet contemporary music from Taizé (composed by Jacques Berthier) and the newly composed yet folk - based songs of the Iona Community in Scotland apparently smack too much of traditional religion to find wide acceptance in the Next Church.

And my understanding is that folks were expecting several hundred people to do similar actions like the one I was a part of.The specific action that I was a part of was affiliated with CCDA, the Christian Community Development Association, and they were calling it Camino de Suenos [Spanish for «Path of Dreams»].

And because of our intense «sub monastic» transparency and organic ways as well as our high expectations of what it means to follow Christ as a subversive system, we have no intention of getting church folk to join our community... which is probably the best way to grow anyway eh?