Sentences with phrase «from missions work»

Carpenter emphasizes fundamentalists» commitment to foreign missions, noting that as mainline denominations retrenched or withdrew from mission work, the number of fundamentalist missionaries multiplied.

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So there's been a lot of great work by NASA and other organizations in early exploration of Mars and understanding... what Mars is like, where could we land, what's the composition of the atmosphere, where is there water — water ice, I should say — and so we need to go from these early exploration missions to actually building a city.

These days Candace is out from behind the mask and showing the world some new faces — as a singer (her rendition of Michael Jackson's «Heal The World» also went viral), vlogger, host on TLC, and ambassador for charitable organization Convoy of Hope, who as part of their mission works to empower young girls in cultures where women are degraded.

«We've been working from the beginning to bring unique backgrounds and perspectives to the main stage, and are thrilled to deliver on that mission,» said Sandra Toms, vice president and curator of the RSA conference.

His work helped me examine what I do from a new light, inspiring me to diversify my investments and focus on my mission instead of the money.

«As we move forward, we will work to come together around our mission to inspire humanity that has set JetBlue apart from other airlines since day one,» JetBlue said.

A meaningful mission statement can also distinguish a company from its competitors, suggest potential directions for future growth and provide team members with a common goal to work toward.

The fact that they promote their employees to be active in their mission, outside of work, makes me feel better when I buy from them.

If a core aspect of your work, from the people, to your position, the product or the company's mission isn't aligned with your personal motivations, defining clear boundaries for work - life balance will likely be more important in your current job.

Dig Deeper: Marketing Your Mission Statement Small Business Website Design: Make Your Website Easy to Use If you're building something from scratch, the first step is to ensure you have the right minds working on the project.

«I'll be working to protect my new colleagues at the DNC from the attackers who would prefer to keep us distracted from our mission of getting Democrats across the nation elected.

In its filing, the Zuckerbergs say «any profits from investments in companies will be used to fund additional work to advance the mission.»

The process of developing an intelligent and lasting personal mission isn't that different from how it works at a company.

Her work relies on data from NASA's spaceward missions, and a shift from earth science toward even more space data might offer new opportunities for her research.

Dear friends and colleagues, This summer we saw an opportunity to provide greater clarity to entrepreneurs and our partners about the mission and focus of our work, which at times was obscured by references to «needles in haystacks» instead of our true inspiration, which is the gritty teamwork required to harvest hay from a field and stack it in a barn.

Lastly, meaning may also be derived from a more concrete source: The social mission inherent in the Coworking Manifesto, an online document signed by members of more than 1,700 working spaces.

Even if your company has a strong mission, a learning culture with smart people to learn from and lots of growth opportunities, it's very difficult to know what it's like to work there by reading your job listing and looking at your marketing website.

In line with that mission, Voya Foundation accepts grant proposals year - round from organizations whose work aligns with our strategy of financial resilience: ensuring that youth are equipped with the STEM expertise necessary to compete in the 21st century workforce and the financial literacy skills necessary to make smart financial decisions that lead to a secure retirement.

Key findings for the North American (U.S. and Canada) workforce surveyed in the study include: • 51 % of employees are not happy at work • 45 % of employees trust their company's leadership • 61 % of employees don't know their company's mission • 57 % of employees are not motivated by their company's mission • 60 % of employees don't know their company's vision • 57 % of employees don't feel recognized for their progress at work • 61 % of employees don't know their organization's cultural values • 50 % of employees don't expect to be with their organization a year from now

The report reveals that a large number of employees in North America and the United Kingdom (U.K.) are unhappy at work, disenchanted with the company's mission and demotivated by lack of positive feedback from superiors.

The Assembly planners would have benefited from pondering the wisdom of that great ecumenist and former WCC Mission Director, Lesslie Newbigin, whose recent work, The Gospel in a Pluralist Society, challenges both the complacency of conservatism and the constant effort to reconstruct the gospel:

FEMA's mission is to support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain, and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all hazards.

The real issue here isn't one's belief, its an expectation that when going to a job we should be focused on completing the job we were hired to do, and not bring into the work environment topics that arouse strong passions and detract from a team's mission.

Lay movements arose, among them the Union of Orthodox Fellowships, which brought together grassroots Christian initiatives from all over Russia in the fields of mission, charity, and youth work.

Originally from Dunscore in Dumfries and Galloway, Miss Haining made her home in the Hungarian capital, where she worked at the city's Scottish Mission School as a boarding house matron.

Alexandru Stan of the Romanian Orthodox Church summarized some of the thinking of the Eastern Church, from the time of Justin Martyr, on the presence of God in all peoples, Christian and non-Christian alike; Metropolitan George Khodr of Beirut extended Orthodox thinking on the wide and restless work of the Holy Spirit; and Bishop Anastasios Yannoulatos of the Greek Orthodox Church offered a perspective shaped by his work as moderator of the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism.

Another factor in the greater success of this approach is the eclectic spirit (as distinguished from the exclusivistic spirit of the mission) in which the resources of social work, psychiatry, medicine, and AA have been integrated with their basic evangelism.

Five girls were recently rescued from an India brothel, thanks in part to the work of the International Justice Mission.

Another of the purposes of this book is to challenge ourselves to learn from one another mutually as Christians, and our interpretation of it will depend on how we understand the work of evangelization and mission.

From the beginning of Paul's mission the church gratefully recognized that God who worked especially with the people of Israel, the family circle of the Messiah, included the rest of humanity in the divine plan.

A recent example of just such suspicion and mistrust took place in August, when an anti-trafficking nonprofit called Agape International Missions (AIM) came under fire from the Cambodian government for purportedly working with CNN to stage a smear campaign against Cambodian women.

«Most evangelicals — leaders from all seven denominations — have expressed concerns,» Sergey Rakhuba, president of Mission Eurasia and a former Moscow church - planter, told CT. «They're calling on the global Christian community to pray that Putin can intervene and God can miraculously work in this process.»

When the Worcester Area Mission Society in Worcester, Massachusetts, cosponsored a program to help women move from welfare to work, the program included training for jobs as practical nurses and legal secretaries.

Several factors contributed to this development, including developments in the mission field and the pressure from the younger churches for unity, experiences of the churches in Europe during the two world wars, the political situation in the West, the theological developments in Europe, and the ecumenical discussions on church unity in the Life and Work and Faith and Order movements and their influence on the missionary movement.

He had sent more than eighty monks for mission work in Turkestan (a region in Central Asia extending approximately from the Caspian Sea to Lake Baikal).

This included receiving gifts from God's people in order to sustain themselves, or roll up their sleeves and work in secular employment — whatever it took in order to fulfill their mission.

In 1834, seven workers from the ABCFM Ceylon Mission went Madurai to begin the AMM.7 Among the five North American missionaries, only the Rev. Levi Spaulding knew enough Tamil to begin work immediately.

I dealt with 15 or so volunteer - in - mission teams while serving in the Dominican Republic, and I know from this experience that career missionaries should try to prepare the way for such teams and help them become oriented to the situation in which they will be working.

Recalling Protestant emphasis on the «priesthood of the people,» Taylor called for a lay ministry which would include: (1) a «Sunday - school army,» (2) Christian associations, (3) the utilization of the «great multitude of women who publish the Word in home and school, mission - bands and temperance unions, and the thousand forms of woman's work for women and for the church,» and (4) the use of the «600,000 youth from Christian Endeavor Societies.

If I worked for a Christian group that went on missions, my Atheism would prevent me from doing that type of work out of principle... so I honestly do not see the problem.

The community of the New Testament understood and accepted the interpretation of David as the king of ancient Israel, as peculiarly the Yahweh - man, as uniquely foreshadowing the fulfillment of the covenant purpose; and from that interpretation, already given in the history of David, they understood and interpreted the work and mission of Jesus.

She was noticeably absent from work last week while she started the missiology program at SEBTS this week, building on her missions experience in Alaska and Africa and her Masters in Mmissions experience in Alaska and Africa and her Masters in MissionsMissions.

However, Vicedom does not thereby exclude the church from the mission of God but includes it: «The mission, and with it the church, is God's very own work».

My understanding of «missional» derives from what I would call a «classical understanding» of mission: that women and men, through personal faith and conversion by the work of the Holy Spirit, would become disciples of Jesus Christ and responsible members of Christ's church.

The poet Narayana Vamana Tilak was baptised and worked from within the organized Mission for a time, but in the end «visualized an Indian pattern of discipleship of Christ and a church of Christ transcending the community of the baptised.

In his book Missio Dei, Vicedom emphasizes that mission is God's work from beginning to end.

Namely, God's mission works primarily through Jesus Christ's sending the people of God to intentionally cross barriers from church to nonchurch, faith to nonfaith, to proclaim by word and deed the coming of the kingdom of God in Jesus Christ through the Church's participation in God's mission of reconciling people to God, to themselves, to one another, and to the world and gathering them into the church, through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ, by the work of the Holy Spirit, with a view to the transformation of the world, as a sign of the coming of the kingdom in Jesus Christ.

Jonas Jørgensen is a theologian from Denmark who studied at the United Theological College, Bangalore, India as an Ecumenical Student, and now works for the International Association for Mission Studies.

Working with the Department for International Trade, the WSTA will run a series of missions to various markets this year starting with the Hong Kong event, which will run from 20 - 23 March.

Sun & Earth's mission is to create high - quality cleaning products from natural ingredients that work just as well as chemical - ridden commercial brands.