Sentences with phrase «gather around a community»

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These locations have been given the special designation as a place of welcoming and support for military communities around the country, serving as an important gathering place to reconnect veterans with their communities, support successful transitions and create career opportunities.

We are a society of friends, a community gathered together around Jesus.

Again a community gathered around her and again Friendship House was invited to other cities, where Catherine's voice tirelessly cried out for social and interracial justice.

Jesus always looks to the Father, knowing that God is gathering those around him into a household, a home, a community by the working of that same love.

God had other plans, however, and soon a little community gathered around her, and the group, which she called Friendship House, spread to other Canadian cities.

And in being united to Christ we are united to the community that Christ gathers around himself.

A community gathered around the cross is a community marked by honesty, humility, empathy and profound solidarity.

She gathered a group of like minded women around her and formed a religious community to defend the human rights and cater for the spiritual needs of slave and coloured girls.

The people of Ferguson — and all protesters who gather in cities and colleges and communities around the world — are doing one thing: they are standing with their hands up and their faces blank.

That in turn has allowed a glimpse into the earliest phases of the Jesus movement, including its transition from a community gathered around the wisdom of Jesus to a sect that looked for his return as an apocalyptic messiah.

Isolated from the community of moral judgment, transgressors strive to gather a substitute around themselves.

When the community gathers around its table, one of its representatives narrates a particular story, either of deliverance from Egypt or of a Passover meal laden with the solemn promise of a new covenant.

But the simple language of Jesus Christ himself furnishes to most Christians the most intelligible key to his own purpose and to that of the community gathered around him.

The Sufis and disciples who gather around a Shaikh usually form a religious order (tariqa), of which there are many in Islam, and sometimes center their activities in a tekke, an organized residential community.

(65) Or, in the formulation cited earlier: «The tradition of faith received from the Apostles and lived out in the community of believers gathered around the Bishop, their legitimate Pastor.»

It's about a community of God gathering around a sacred text and discovering its meaning together.

Aaron comes up with the golden calf idea and the community goes wild, which proves that just because you are in a group of people gathered together to worship God doesn't mean you won't end up dancing around with something silly.

I hoped I would be clear that I didn't want to put a value on any kind of community no matter what they're gathered around.

The community gathered around proposition, purpose, and product can not abide these things being challenged.

Yes I hear that about value on community basted on what the community is gathered around.

Whether it's lunch, a first date or a sporting championship celebration, the Shoal Creek community will always be welcome to gather around at Old Chicago Pizza & Taproom to share good times, great beer and made - from - scratch food daily from 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. Old Chicago in Shoal Creek will also offer catering services for pickup at the restaurant.

Join «honk» bands, hula hoopers, puppets and more for a parade down to the banks of the Charles for a giant community gathering and sing - along, starting around 6 pm.

Schulfrei Community — a site that connects home educators around the world, with useful lists of camps and other gatherings in the UK and elsewhere.

Ancient Malaysians and Indonesians gathered all the mothers in the family or community around a woman in labor, while Navajos would often have members of the community chant and sing «unraveling» songs to speed labor along.

More than 100 volunteers have served on nine committees to gather information on proposed improvements to district parks and their facilities, including building natural and local history exhibits at Peck Farm; building athletic fields and environmental study areas; constructing a new swimming pool; repairing the retaining wall around Island Park on the Fox River; renovating old playgrounds and building new ones; restoring tennis courts and building new ones; and expanding the community center.

It works for the Amish, it works on a number of communes around the country and world where people gather as a community and work toward a common survival and existance.

It was never about producing a game - changing moment but continuing to build the momentum that will energise the grass roots into taking the argument these next few months to community halls, local gatherings and doorsteps around the country.

They resolved that their article would not be just another well - meaning declaration gathering dust on some forgotten shelf, and they have undertaken a number of efforts to galvanize the scientific community around real reform.

They gathered examples of positive initiatives from communities around the world for a website they created — Good Anthropocene.

Washington, DC: March 23, 2010 — Fareed Zakaria, author, journalist and host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS, will moderate a discussion among industry leaders on the state of biotech hubs and innovation around the globe during the upcoming 2010 BIO International Convention, the world's largest gathering of the global biotechnology community.

By now, the BXD community has gathered around 300 million phenotype data points from these animals, generating by far the largest coherent «phenome» (a set of all phenotypes expressed in an organism) for any animal experimental cohort.

Scientists and families from around the world will gather in The Woodlands, Texas, July 30 — Aug. 2 to build the community needed to find a treatment for Christianson Syndrome, a newly recognized genetic intellectual disability disorder in boys.

You can also meet with your own community of conscious women, gathering around the new or full moon to raise your collective vibration — maybe igniting a powerful intention or just holding space for one another.

We are savoring a summer of quiet afternoons, with baking pies and browsing libraries, weekly gatherings with a local Missional Community, exploring local parks and playgrounds in the cool mornings, and hiking trails around mountain passes and coastal beaches on Calvin's days off.

Zen Camera by David Ulrich — Book Review For the past eight years, I've been part of an international community of bloggers who gather each week at Wordless Wednesday memes around the world to share their love of photography and provide a glimpse into their lives.

We gather our Coven community around the virtues of mutual respect, personal responsibility, integrity, and honor for all spiritual paths.

About Blog - Built for the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) communities, we gather research news from hundreds of universities, government labs, institutes and industries from around the world, bringing the latest discoveries to our readers.

She captures also the story behind the food; the people that grow it, the chefs that prepare it, the communities that celebrate it, the people that gather around the table to share it.

Educators from around the world will gather in Sydney next month to share successful approaches that have helped improve student learning outcomes in school communities.

Education professionals gather to celebrate how our community helps build bridges in classrooms, communities, and around the globe.

The gathering here Sept. 25 - 27, the outgrowth of a joint council of leaders from both unions, drew teams of educators, policymakers, and community leaders from around the country.

In a pre-conference meeting of the District Leaders Network on Family & Community Engagement, district leaders from around the country gathered to increase their capacity for implementing successful systemic strategies by identifying solutions to common challenges and sharing best practices.

In person and via livecast, the event gathered more than 80 education and community leaders, and experts in law and education research around the critical question of how we can improve secondary education quality and access for English learners.

The purpose of these sessions is to build community around career readiness, gather practices that educators can use in their own schools to support career readiness, align their work to NYCDOE College and Career Access domains, and document their learning.

Face the Future will virtually gather secondary school students, educators, and community members from around the world to think about what empathy might look like in the year 2026 — and how that future will impact the choices we make today.

CEO Byrd - Bennett formed the independent Commission on School Utilization to gather data about the District's utilization challenges and to engage school communities around how to best address them.

Leaders from around the Troy area gathered at the Ark Community Charter School to join the fight to keep the school open.

After all, writing and self - publishing can often feel like such lonely and mysterious pursuits, but here was AMC, a community of like - minded, creative people all gathered around and supported by world - class tools and resources.

Their value ultimately lies in the community that gathers around them.

On October 14, 2015 Library Journal, School Library Journal, and thousands of library professionals from around the world gathered for the 6th annual Digital Shift virtual conference to focus on the challenges and opportunities presented by the digital transition's impact on libraries and their communities.