Sentences with phrase «fellowship hall»

For church groups, effective marriage enrichment retreats can occur in the church fellowship halls or lounges.

We held it in our church's fellowship hall so that was free.

We usually have it in the parking lot if the weather is nice, but once in awhile we will take it into fellowship hall.

This congregation's new fellowship hall, designed by Pfau Architecture, combines the creation of spiritual space with sensitivity to the environment.

In a meeting later hailed as «probably the most healthy conversation that ever occurred in the church,» the congregation overwhelmingly voted not to take on the large debt of new construction but rather to remodel what they already had: a long, low fellowship hall.

Our fellowship hall is used by many external groups and the church gets rent income for use of the hall.

Time and again, the assumption among Christian leaders, and evangelical leaders in particular, is that the key to drawing twenty - somethings back to church is simply to make a few style updates - edgier music, more casual services, a coffee shop in the fellowship hall, a pastor who wears skinny jeans, an updated Web site that includes online giving.

Then, after church one Sunday, when the whole church went to the fellowship hall for lunch, she started yelling at my mom!

Time and again, the assumption among Christian leaders, and evangelical leaders in particular, is that the key to drawing twenty - somethings back to church is simply to make a few style updates — edgier music, more casual services, a coffee shop in the fellowship hall, a pastor who wears skinny jeans, an updated Web site that includes online giving.

«The food's not why I come, he said as he nodded toward the fellowship hall.

I've experienced this gospel truth at my former congregation in Fort Worth, Texas, which on Thursdays throws open the fellowship hall to the homeless of the city, 200 or so.

You'll be doing the hard part, the showing up part, and suddenly a word or a song or the presence of a plate of deviled eggs grinning back at in you in the fellowship hall will flood every sense with memory — at once nostalgic and painful, comforting and sad.

His office also looked at issues such as renting the fellowship hall for weddings or other events.

I'd been invited by some friends to a fall youth rally at the First Baptist Church, and in the fellowship hall one night, the youth leader passed around neon blue and pink postcards that included a form letter to God promising to remain sexually abstinent until marriage.

The roof of the fellowship hall upstairs blew off and crashed into nearby homes.

Four days before the arrest, the government opened the Diyanet Center of America, a sprawling 15 - acre site complete with a 20,236 - square - foot mosque, fellowship hall and Turkish bath, all paid for with state money, which touts itself as the biggest Islamic campus «in the Western Hemisphere.»

That requires meaningful worship, worship in which people sense God's presence and grace - filled activity Similarly, rather than just supplying good food in the fellowship hall, one must provide meaningful opportunities for building and practicing Christian fellowship.

This holds the temperature inside the fellowship hall at a fairly steady 59 degrees during the winter and 69 degrees during the summer.

Ironically, a «fellowship hall» presumably intended for mixed gatherings is often a room so large and barren that it discourages fellowship altogether.

Several years ago, while serving as minister of a congregation in Hawaii, I had frequent opportunity to observe a karate school that used our fellowship hall.

And sometimes — if you so happen to land in a place that knows how to party — a three - piece band playing Dixieland jazz sets up shop outside the sanctuary to fete you as you make your way to the fellowship hall to greet hundreds of people who love you because you have loved them so very, very well.

Every Sunday, Creekers were crossing the picket line to enter the hotel, using it as a fellowship hall.

Although they appreciate the free coffee and donuts the fellowship hall offers, what they really want is fellowship.

Our salary is public knowledge, discussed and decided on as casually as whether to paint the fellowship hall yellow or white.»

Sunday, May 3: Sunday worship, 10:25 a.m. (potluck luncheon after church in the fellowship hall) Evening lecture and Q&A, 7 p.m. (reception to follow)

Kitchen, fellowship hall, and group and counseling rooms served the purpose of integrating Smithtown's diverse members, bringing them from their sometimes dissonant private lives to a sense of shared community.

But finally, preschool is back in full swing so she can go see all her friends and burn off all that energy in the fellowship hall of the church.

It will be presented in Trinity Episcopal Church's fellowship hall, 44 E. Market St. Bethlehem.

If you would like to join the conversation, or be a guest, you are welcome to join us in the fellowship hall.

I prepare and set up lunch for a women's Bible study each week, I always bring decorative items from home to make the atmosphere special for the ladies, that it doesn't just look like the fellowship hall.