Sentences with phrase «from small congregations»

Many moved from small congregations to larger ones.

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Apart from occasional local congregations, the most promising place to begin is with small educational institutions closely tied to the church.

Most of the hearers were from small, poor, southern black congregations, but they were a people on the move.

He pastured a small Calvinist church congregation about 40 minutes away from where I live.

The Peoria partnerships are part of a small but growing movement to engage congregations and religious nonprofits in the lives of families making the transition from welfare to work.

As one pastor who moved from a large church to a small church commented, I would never go back to a large church... Administrative tasks kept getting in the way of doing what I wanted to be doing,... [which is] serving a congregation and making a difference in people's lives.»

The proportion of congregations in the 1960s and 1970s that actually responded as prescribed to their contexts was in fact very small.21 As neighborhood populations changed racially, some churches whose physical and financial resources lingered after their former membership fled introduced service programs to assist the poor, but the adjustment seems in most cases to have stemmed from necessity or default rather than from deliberate reorientation and restructuring by members who themselves stayed on to be transformed.

That awareness comes from an unlikely source: a small Jewish congregation in Creve Coeur.

For the most part, the elders play a role in the Q&A for the technical answers, but everybody in the small congregation has an answer from their own experiences, and everybody is free to share.

Romney, who was the head of a Church of Jesus Christ of Later - day Saints congregation in Boston, quoted heavily from the Bible and the Book of Mormon as he stood before a small crowd in New Hampshire.

For over twenty years, Rabbi Sherre Hirsch has been sharing her intimate counsel and wisdom with people in all kinds of «pulpits,» ranging from her congregation at Sinai Temple in Los Angeles to the audience of the Today show to small Southern Baptist churches.

Taking care of the poor and hungry, for instance, already plays a role in many congregations» community efforts: from small food pantries to organized meal delivery efforts, feeding people has always been a part of religious outreach.

At first, as Carol sat small and waiflike in a chair in front of me, I felt an internal pull to rescue her from her husband and her religious congregation — a road I knew I couldn't take without perpetuating her sense of insignificance.