Sentences with phrase «efforts during my youth»

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Despite my earnest efforts to make sessions on the sacraments, church history, the Bible, ethics and beliefs interesting, the last thing on earth these youth wanted was to be put through two more hours of school every Thursday during Lent.

This question usually triggers among non-converts an uncomfortable silence broken by the phrase, «Well, I was born in a Christian family,» followed by an effort to locate a singular moment of conscious conversion some time during middle school, probably at the altar call of a church youth - group retreat.

I vividly remember, during my own youth, my mother and father talking at the kitchen table and discarding wannabe babysitters for such reasons as lack of intelligence, possible drinking problem, ugliness and poor hygiene, but all that effort still didn't stop one hired hand from encouraging me to jump as far as I could off the back of the couch.

Jury of the 3rd Sharjah International Children's Film Festival unveils main challenges in the evaluation and selection process Challenges arise during its efforts to select winners of the SICFF Awards FUNN, the Sharjah - based foundation dedicated to promoting media arts for and among children and youth in the UAE, has announced that the jury of the 3rd edition -LSB-...]

As Bill Withers» «Lean On Me» comes over the sound system, Megan tells the youth in her van the story of Marincello — and the grassroots effort that quashed the nascent housing development in the Marin Headlands during the 1960s.

A wine auction and a percentage of art sales during the event joins with a gallery donation to the organizations» efforts to create a safe environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youth between the ages of 13 and 24 and their families, according to their website.

32 students from City of Orlando youth programs are going to Puerto Rico during their spring break to perform various service projects assisting with the island's Hurricane Maria recovery efforts.

Workers make a concerted effort to talk with children and youth during meetings with the family.