Sentences with phrase «family out in the community»

He will be busy volunteering with his family out in the community to get service experience under his belt.

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Katie Valentino, a licensed family therapist in the Chicago suburbs, recently pulled her money out of two large banks and moved it to a community bank.

Our son's family are members of a community church (Southern Baptist, more or less), where, last Sunday, the pastor preached on putting faith into practice, and pointed out that there are about 250 orphans living in our area.

We can do this by reaching out to our community and helping those in need as well as focusing on family and friends.»

Both Parks & Rec and Community were shut out in the Best Comedy category, though Veep, Louie, Big Bang Theory and Modern Family were all nominated.

I remember when I was young that my father told me that all the whites in our community woke up every morning trying to figure out how to kill me and our family.

And I have felt the many ways Jesus reaches out his hand to catch me — in the love of family and friends, the sustenance of spiritual practice, the bonds of community and the moments of unexplainable peace in the midst of the struggle and the failure.

So we learned about generations of indigenous children who had been removed from their homes, their parents, their communities, and their families to be placed in government - sponsored religious schools beginning officially in 1880 so the «Indian» could be educated out of them.

And they work tirelessly out in the community, empowering each woman to use her gifts to make space for God in her family, her friendships, her work and her sphere of influence.

Even if all my spiritual needs are fulfilled in my small intimate community, all those other communities out there are still family.

Power as it is being discussed here is played out in «politics» — in personal relationships, in institutions like government, family, schools, and religious communities, in international arenas that are as often economic as political.

In order to look out for themselves, this «individualism» leads people to go along with the crowd, or to acquiesce in the questionable practices of family, employer, or communitIn order to look out for themselves, this «individualism» leads people to go along with the crowd, or to acquiesce in the questionable practices of family, employer, or communitin the questionable practices of family, employer, or community.

I believe God's original creation is how we were crafted to thrive: in marriage, in family, and in community, which has borne out for millennia in Scripture, interpretation, practice, and society (within and without the church).

To what extent these needs are met by the community as a whole or primarily by family, friends, and neighbors is a matter to be worked out in a participatory way by the community.

With stunning consistency, virtually every indicator of civic engagement currently available shows the same pattern of increase followed by stagnation and decline — newspaper reading; TV news watching; attending political meetings; petition signing; running for public office; attending public meetings; serving as an officer or committee member in any local clubs or organizations; writing letters to the editor; participating in local meetings of national organizations; attending religious services; socializing informally with friends, relatives or neighbors; attending club meetings; joining unions; entertaining friends at home; participating in picnics; eating the evening meal with the whole family; going out to bars, nightclubs, discos or taverns; playing cards; sending greeting cards; attending parties; playing sports; donating money as a percentage of income; working on community projects; giving blood.

As John Snow, a professor of pastoral theology, points out, the Christian family was seen in the New Testament as an agent of the coming community of love and justice, a new kind of «kingdom»: «Its goal was not to make a house a home for a family but to make the world a home for humankind.»

This huge ministry — which offers housing for the homeless, food for the hungry, preschool for kids whose families couldn't afford it otherwise, green groceries in a food desert, and a community to belong to — started out with Arloa scooping out spaghetti to a couple of homeless guys in her church's side office.

If the welfare state needs individual citizens who can sustain a sense of obligation to strangers; if individuals, in order to develop a capacity for empathy and cooperation, need families; if families, in order to function effectively, need supporting communities of various sorts; and if communities are being eroded under present conditions, we may need to break out of the standard liberal and conservative frameworks.

«You shouldn't think that way... girls can't... men don't...» At this level families and communities have moved out of chaos and tyranny to a situation in which stability is rigidly maintained.

The next ring out is his family, then his church, then the community, then in the outer circle is the world.

It's just a small incarnational moment, hardly worth noticing for most of the world, but for me, this was a metaphor moment of life in the Kingdom, life in the glorious truth of worship in spirit and truth, Jesus - shaped leadership as servanthood, and so our family's lighting of another candle within community, with their affirmation and prayers and participation, pushed back just a bit more of the darkness, and then we scattered back out again.

I've spent the last two or three weeks with the stories of three families in our community, writing them out, crying over them, a bundle of nerves.

He cited statistics showing that one of every four black infants was now born out of wedlock, and employed vivid rhetoric to describe the «tangle of pathologies» that perpetuated itself in communities without cohesive families.

So they might be in Port - au - Prince, and then they might have family in a rural community so they go out there for a little bit, and then they try to come back.

He has just been made a local missionary at a church plant in north London and, working with the Message Trust's Eden community, has moved his family to a local estate to reach out to underprivileged young people.

A caring, committed community, a family, a place we can be honest and explore what it means to live out our faith, and the people we worship with in spirit and in truth.

There are more homes on Bar Island today, but it remains a close community where neighbors watch out for neighbors and everyone knows which lobsterman's truck is rumbling down the dirt road to the wharf at 4:30 in the morning, the family says.

Improve the well - being of impoverished children and families in Martin County, KY through community outreach and hunger relief programs with the ultimate goal of empowering them to lift themselves out of poverty.

It's a neighborhood restaurant so we want to continue reaching out to families and friends of Del Mar, Carmel Valley, and the other North County communities in hopes that they come visit us a few times a week.»

You might first start with your pediatrician or family doctor to rule out an illness or you can also speak with your school counselor and see what resources you may have in your community to help with stress.

Edwards also points out that the museum works closely with community agencies to provide reduced fee and free visits to families in need.

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I was sorry it did but nothing was changing especially his defiance to the community and family < But After we got out of the dinner we could meet anyt where he chose in four hours and lay everones grievances out including his and try and come up with a timetable to allow him something in his life He just could not drop inmto everyones life without preperation now.

Take my teen's cell phone: He received it in 6th grade, which may be early or late depending on your beliefs / community / needs, but he was going out of state with a friend's family and I wanted him to be able to contact me (and me him) at any time.

Berkshire Family Focus is a great way to find out what's happening in our community!

Just like having babies cry it out (CIO), which is a parenting behavior that API does not support, some or many people in your family or community may not agree with your view that CIO is violating your baby's emotional health.

Gabriel and Jose both love exploring the community with their current foster family — to the zoo, to church, and on day trips in and out of town!

When LÍLLÉbaby founder Lisbeth Lehan set out a decade ago to create a baby carrier that would truly meet the needs of families in a COMPLETE and lasting way, she knew the key to success would be community.

Many kids» wagons are complete with cup holders and sun shades, and a great way to travel to family outings and events in the community

One of the most effective ways to increase participation in afterschool suppers is to ensure that there are enough programs offering afterschool activities in low - income communities, that struggling families are not costed out of participating, and that those programs provide suppers.

In some communities this may mean seeking out a family physician to assume general care.

We all seek out a strong support community: Some of us may find a family or two nearby to share a regular playdate; others may bounce parenting questions off one trusted friend; for many parents, an API Support Group offers what we're looking for — a group of parents who share the same goals and the same struggles in a society that's not always friendly toward Attachment Parenting choices.

The Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program responds to the diverse needs of children and families in at - risk communities and is required to carry out a continuous program of research and evaluation activities in order to increase knowledge about the implementation and effectiveness of home visiting programs.

However, Alison Weir points out that more diaper banks are needed in more communities, and cites U.S. Census Bureau statistics that show that 5.6 million children under the age of three live in poor and low - wage families.

«While Nate McMurray was busy at his Grand Island Town Hall Campaign Headquarters currying favor with the Democrat establishment and figuring out how to sell the Cuomo / Pelosi agenda to NY - 27 voters, Chris Collins was spending his time delivering historic tax cuts for working families in his district, expanding access to broadband in rural communities, defending our Lake Ontario Shoreline and protecting our Second Amendment rights,» Piligra said.

Crucially, the type of conservatism preached by Glasman, Rutherford, Cruddas and co. is a «radical conservatism», which seeks to resist the disrupting and commodifying tendencies of markets: ``... conservative in valuing relationships, work, family and community... radical in defending the labour interest, and sharing out power, resources and opportunities between members of society.»

They pointed out that people in the community rely on a network of family, neighbours and friends to help one another out with, for example, childcare and care of the elderly.

«If the voluntary sector is forced out of the market then this will have a negative impact on patients and families and also the communities in which they live,» they said.

«The DPO in Owutu went to Igbolomu and the surrounding communities and as of the time he got there, he saw everybody running in panic and it could be maybe because of that immediate response the militants had fled the place and while moving round, he later found six corpses of the people that were killed and the police took over those corpses out of which two were immediately released to their families who said they want to go and bury according to Islamic rights, while we took the remaining four to the morgue.

«If you have been a person of color and you stood out on the sidewalk and a taxi passed you by, if you are someone that is trying to figure out how to make ends meet from our communities, and «I just need a job to make sure I have an opportunity for my family,» if I'm just trying to figure out how to have more justice in my communities, that's why you stand on the side of Uber,» he said.