Sentences with phrase «congregants at»

wrote Rabbi Allan Tuffs in a message to his congregants at Temple Beth El of Hollywood.

Congregants at the United Church of Christ are struggling in the wake of the political upheaval over the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.'s statements and Senator Barack Obama's responses.

Congregants at their church were skeptical of climate change and of his climate scientist wife.

Rice addressed a crowd of congregants at the Central Synagogue of Nassau County, discussing her thoughts on gun violence in America and the efforts she's taking to combat it.

Speaking to congregants at Wayside Baptist Church in Brooklyn, de Blasio said mayoral control had given his administration the ability to launch the city's Universal Pre-K program, and played a role in driving up high school graduation rates over the past 15 years.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio told congregants at the Promised Land Covenant Church that the president had «a lot of gall» firing off a series of tweets that criticized Yulín Cruz and local Puerto Rican officials after a pair of back - to - back deadly hurricanes.

Both elected officials spoke with congregants at the Parkchester Baptist Church on -LSB-...]

«If Albany will not give us the changes we need, if Albany will not strengthen rent regulations, if Albany will not pass a mansion tax, if Albany will not protect us, then here's what I think about any tax breaks for condominiums, luxury condominiums, any tax breaks for developers who are not going to create affordable housing — I say end those tax breaks once and for all,» he told congregants at First Corinthian Baptist Church in Manhattan, according to a recording provided by a spokesman.

Speaking to congregants at Evangel Temple in Laurelton, Queens, and Maranatha Baptist Church in Queens Village, de Blasio said he was not taking his reelection bid for granted and warned voters against sitting out the election.

De Blasio addressed congregants at two Queens churches, greeted residents along a busy Forest Hills street, and spoke with park goers the Orchard Beach Basketball and Handball Courts in the Bronx.

«When you don't vote, you can have unintended consequences,» de Blasio told congregants at the Maranatha Baptist Church.

Addressing congregants at the Holy Ghost Temple of the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC) on Sunday, president Mahama said the improvement in the country's human development index shows Ghana is moving in the right direction.

NEWARK, New Jersey (CNN)- As the sun rose the morning after Whitney Houston's death, congregants at the Baptist church where she began her singing career as a member of the junior gospel choir gathered to mourn, pray and share stories of the pop superstar.

Jim Bakker — TV evanglist, affair with coworker Marvin Gorman — TV evangelist — affair with congregant Bob Moorehead — Pastor of Overlake Christian Church — arrested for indecent exposure, resigned in disgrace after evidence of his molesting congregants at weddings and baptisms for 20 years went public.

But the analysis in Reveal, which surveyed congregants at Willow Creek and six other churches, suggested that evangelistic impact was greater from those who self - reported as «close to Christ» or «Christ - centered» than from new church attendees.

Last Passover, in a sermon to 2,200 congregants at his synagogue, Rabbi Wolpe frankly said that «virtually every modern archaeologist» agrees «that the way the Bible describes the Exodus is not the way that it happened, if it happened at all.»

The FBI said today that Dylann Roof, the man accused of killing nine congregants at Charleston's Emanuel AME Church last month, should not have been able to buy a gun.

Mr Pence also visited wounded congregants at a San Antonio hospital and met with families of the dead in Floresville, not far from Sutherland Springs.

(CNN)-- Congregants at Faith Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Fairfax, Virginia, aren't just bowing their heads to pray, they are also ducking golf balls.

The idea came from Connie Auteri, a congregant at the church and herself a new surfer.

All people that pay taxes should get... the same privileges and rights,» said Terence Johnson, a congregant at Salem Bible Church in Atlanta.

The eye of the congregant at «Black Mass» suddenly catches a burst of white light emanating from above.

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In Hayward, California on Friday, August 3, four teenagers threw lemons at a local mosque, striking one congregant.

Several congregants approached him afterward to say that they, too, felt that they'd acted against God by looking at porn.

(CNN)- A New Jersey church - already a bit different in that its three congregations gather weekly at two hotels and a middle school - put a new spin on the collection plate Sunday by having congregants take cash - filled envelopes from the plate in hopes that the money will be put to charitable use.

A few weeks after delivering his confessional sermon, Gyorke organized a Sunday event at his church intended to help keep congregants away from pornography.

Because it was my pastoral experience that congregants rarely supplied at least 10 % of their income to God - be that through their local church or to other worthy causes.

Police suspect Fulani herdsmen were responsible for an attack on a morning mass at a central Nigerian church yesterday that left two priests and 16 congregants dead.

His church has come under scrutiny for everything from its congregants (Hillsong counts Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez and Kevin Durant among its flock), to its stances («At this church, we are not saying «All Lives Matter,»» Lentz declared in Sep - tember), to Lentz's fashion choices (GQ dubbed him a «Hypepriest» for his col - lection of ultra-hip designer threads).

Aaron told congregants that she had visited Giffords in the hospital just hours earlier, issuing her a new Hebrew name and quietly whispering a prayer meant to bring the «light of healing» to the congresswoman, who remains in critical condition at a Tucson hospital.

You lot the RCC congregants are leaving the church in droves and seem happy to do so, many singing free at last.

At the same time, the new technologies have made it far easier for congregants to investigate other, online religions.

There are multiple stories of Edwards delivering the sermon at churches throughout the American colonies, and afterward there being fingernail marks indented into the back of the wooden pews, left by terrified congregants.

At Heartsong Church in Cordova, Tennessee, Steve Stone and his congregants put out a sign welcoming incoming neighbors at the Memphis Islamic CenteAt Heartsong Church in Cordova, Tennessee, Steve Stone and his congregants put out a sign welcoming incoming neighbors at the Memphis Islamic Centeat the Memphis Islamic Center.

At Heath, however, her father took a regular preaching turn, the congregants were family friends and the cast of supply preachers included Robbins, Episcopal bishops Charles Gilbert and Angus Dun, Episcopal theologians William Wolf and Sherman Johnson, Presbyterian theologian Robert McAfee Brown and Episcopal rector Worcester Perkins.

He appeared at the temple and opened fire without a word, scattering congregants and killing six.

«Our congregants come from all over the world and from every walk of life, from congressmen to taxi drivers,» Rauf said earlier this month in a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Burke took what was a song played for the offering in his pentecostal church and remade it into an R&B tune, incorporating the moments into its vocals when the preacher would point his finger at congregants and say, «I need you, and you, and you» in reference to giving money to God and the church.

Archbishop Rowan Williams greets congregants gathered at the City Sports Centre in Harare on October 9.

We made it back into the sanctuary only in time to have him slobber all over my Silent Night candle (unlit, natch) and grin droolingly at the congregants in our radius.

At noon, Hochul and Assemblyman David Weprin address congregants, Jamaica Muslim Center, 85 - 37 168th St., Queens.

Sabbath services at the Lower East Side's Bialystoker Synagogue felt funereal Saturday as its star congregant — Silver — fell from grace, again.

A planned crackdown on housing discrimination across New York State could soon result in some Realtors losing their licenses, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo told congregants Sunday at a Harlem church.

At 5:30 p.m., the deputy consul general of Israel in New York, Amir Sagie, visits the Hudson Valley and is joined by Assemblywoman Didi Barrett to tour Vassar Temple and meet with temple leadership and congregants, 140 Hooker Ave., Poughkeepsie.

Nana Akufo - Addo, who received tumultuous welcomes in each of the churches he worshipped at, admonished congregants that though «we're going through difficult times in Ghana, I believe we have a great destiny ahead of us.

Speaking to congregants of the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC) at Abossey Okai in Accra, the Vice President expressed gratitude to all...

A planned crackdown on housing discrimination across New York state could soon result in some Realtors losing their licenses, Cuomo told congregants this morning at a Harlem church.

«Difficult discussions must be had face - to - face and we can't throw grenades at each other,» Ramos (D - Brentwood) told congregants of the St. Mark Remnant Ministries in Central Islip.

The Queens Times - Ledger reported this week that a youth minister at Bethany Baptist Church in Jamaica asked a sergeant with the NYPD's Community Affairs division to come speak with his younger congregants.

Also strong is LaKeith Stanfield (Atlanta) as a congregant in Pearson's church, gay himself, who struggles to keep his internal torments at bay while Pearson's change of tune cruelly dangles the possibility that these conservative doctrines that have ruined his life might be changeable.