Sentences with phrase «fellowship halls»

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

It's hard acknowledging the limits of a medium through which my own writing career has flourished, but I want you to know: The conversations we have here — as encouraging, informative, and life - changing as they can often be — are meant to be brought to dinner tables, coffee shops, AA meetings, parks, church fellowship halls, long car rides, dorm rooms, and diners, among people who (whether they agree or disagree) can look you in the eye and take you in, not as a brand but as a human being.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

That two - part question asked at every family reunion and inside every white - walled church fellowship hall is: Do I write about myself, and do I get my characters from those who fill real - life roles in the crazy one - woman show that is my life?

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.

Not exact matches

We will be doing our fellowship service tonight in a community hall, we were doing it at our church for seven years, but we got kicked out, because we wer n`t getting the people to go to the sunday morning service.

With three languages — English, German and French — as channels of expression in every session and with traditional misunderstandings and sectarian prejudices, there would be, of necessity, some critical moments, but the chairmen always so wisely steered the conference out of troubled waters that those instances which did occur were of trifling consequence by the side of the spirit of gracious fellowship which pervaded the delegates both in the conference sessions and in the university halls and hotel lobbies.

If you are interested in applying for a position or fellowship at the institute or would like to take part in a summer school, please contact Professor Hall.

This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH grants R00 - GM098600, NIH - DP2 - GM119140, T32 - GM007790, F32 - GM109680), the Searle Scholars Program (14 - SSP - 210), Sidney Kimmel Foundation (SKF -15-154), the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), the Harold and Leila Mathers Charitable Foundation, the Eleanor Schwartz Charitable Foundation, the Broodbank Trust, Hughes Hall fellowship (University of Cambridge), the Ford Foundation, Stanford University, and the Stanford Summer Research Program / Amgen Scholars Program.

So devoted to her calling that she named her cat Ella (short for salmonella), Hall hopes to keep working for the CDC after her fellowship.

He is a three - time recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts» individual artist fellowship and was awarded the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame first place award in the experimental video category in 1990 and 1992.

A.M. Homes has been the recipient of numerous awards including Fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, NYFA, and The Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at The New York Public Library, Poets and Writers For Writers, Guild Hall Lifetime Achievement.

NALP, the Washington Council of Lawyers, and Georgetown University Law Center is co-sponsoring Fellowships 101 on Wednesday, July 13, from 6:30 — 8:30 pm in the Hart Auditorium of McDonough Hall at Georgetown Unviersity Law Center (600 New Jersey Avenue NW).