Sentences with phrase «gather at the churches»

We would only gather at the church building every other week for the typical Sunday events.

Dozens of families have gathered at a church in Canada to learn if their loved one was a survivor or... More

The pilgrims would gather at a church, known as the collecta, where they would be met by the bishop and other clergy of the city.

This weekend, ISIS terrorists killed at least 45 people in bombings targeting Coptic Christians gathered at churches to worship on Palm Sunday.

A horrific scene unfolded in the Pakistani city of Quetta this weekend, as hundreds of worshippers gathered at a church for a pre-Christmas service.

Dozens of families have gathered at a church in Canada to learn if their loved one was a survivor or victim of a hockey team bus crash.

Pastor Jordan Gadsby, at the Apostolic Church in Nipawin, said more than 100 people had gathered at the church, including parents and grandparents of the players who were on the bus.

There are many different styles of worship and people tend to gather at the churches where they feel comfortable with the worship.

Huge crowds gathered at the church for the Homeland Masses, people streaming out into the churchyard and the streets around.

The more they hear, the more reflectively they are able to live; and thus the more they will bring to the encounter both in the world and in their gatherings at church.

The night comes and we gather at church and the menu for the class was Salmon, couscous, baked brussels sprouts and pumpkin cake.

I wanted to let you know that I brought this to a gathering at my church with some Mary's Gone Crackers and it went over quite well with the non-vegan crowd!

They saw American citizens of all ethnicities gather at churches and synagogues and mosques, at candlelight vigils and impromptu memorial services — and they learned that prayer can heal.

We've come a long way since that frigid February night in Iowa when Republicans and Democrats gathered at churches and in school gymnasiums to cast the first votes in this year's presidential election.

Ms. Honeywood, whose bright colors and simplified forms were strongly influenced by narrative artists like Romare Bearden and Jacob Lawrence, developed a socially conscious style of genre painting that showed black Americans in familiar settings: interacting with family members, gathering at church, socializing on a front porch.

Not exact matches

For me, as a college student, young single woman, and then young married adult, I found that there were no Sunday gatherings for myself - no fellowship classes that matched my stage in life at most churches I visited.

The council of 2016, which has been on the table for discussion and preparation since at least 1961 (although there were earlier proposals for such a council in the 1920s and 1930s), will for the first time ever gather representatives from all fourteen independent Orthodox Churches.

The celebrated Orthodox sobornost» (variously rendered as synodality, conciliarity, catholicity) needs to find its concrete expression in the church that gathers at the council.

(CNN)- A New Jersey church - already a bit different in that its three congregations gather weekly at two hotels and a middle school - put a new spin on the collection plate Sunday by having congregants take cash - filled envelopes from the plate in hopes that the money will be put to charitable use.

The Morristown, New Jersey - based nondenominational Christian church claims to collect $ 30,000 in weekly offerings from its three congregations, which gather at hotel facilities in Morristown and New Brunswick, and at a middle school in Nutley.

For as I noted in a toast at the anniversary dinner the Maleckis» sons had arranged, the network of now - not - so - young friends that had gathered around Karol Wojtyla — men and women who resolutely refuse to think of themselves as something special — had in fact helped bend the history of the Church, and the world, in a more humane direction.

The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) has planted 720 churches in 20 years from Newport in South Wales to Southend - on - Sea, and they regularly gather 40,000 people to pray all night at London's Excel Centre.

Yes, we can go to social gatherings elsewhere, but for people of faith who don't want to look at the world as hopeless and destined for disaster, we wish the churches we know and love would join us and do the same.

So it was encouraging today to read what Paul Leader at his Perspectives blog wrote today: If there was one message I had for pastors and leaders of congregations, churches and gatherings it would be this.

It must have seemed unlikely, in the 1970s, that his modest achievements in Krakow - a vast annual Corpus Christi procession through the city, the great new church at Nowa Huta, a network of social care established for unmarried mothers and others in need, youth gatherings up in the Tatra mountains and in overflowing city churches — would in due course overwhelm official Marxism by sheer force of joyful hope and moral uplift.

At Synods 2014 and (especially) 2015, however, we gathered that the prelates were having the nearest thing prelates ever have to a knock - down, drag - out fight over whether the divorced and remarried should be admitted to the sacraments, even when they had been practicing Catholics all their lives and married in the Church to boot.

Their support for the Catechism of the Catholic Church, their thriving seminaries, their young priests, and their joyful presence at great international Catholic gatherings, have all contributed to renewal and given fresh hope to the Church.

I was rather surprised to find myself quoted in the recent issue of FIRST THINGS as claiming, «Any church excluding Christians at a given place is not merely a bad church, but rather is not church at all, since a Eucharist to which not all the Christians at a given place might gather would not be merely a morally deficient Eucharist, but rather no Eucharist at all.»

● «Beer & Hymns,» a gathering at First Christian Church in Portland, Oregon, where 100 or so mostly young people sing hymns like «Be Thou My Vision» while guzzling home - brewed beer from plastic cups.

This is New Dawn in the Church, a vast gathering that takes place every year at Walsingham, and the man in the chair - bike is Myles Dempsey, effectively the founder of the event and still keen to be at the heart of things.

Salvador of Marcilles, a fourth century church father, said that when we say that Jesus had compassion on the people it means that all the individual suffering of many people is gathered in Christ and Christ bears all the suffering at the same time.

Thousands of people gathered in Hull's historic Old Town at the weekend to celebrate the city's Holy Trinity Church being bestowed a special status by the Archbishop of York.

The Church leaders gathered together at the Council of Nicaea and voted the «word of God» into existence.

David, to what degree do you think this is an issue for the church only and to what degree do you think it is symptomatic of society at large of which the church is part of in keeping with what you say about politics wherever people gather or dwell together?

On the evening of June 17, 2015, Dylann Roof, twenty - one at the time, casually joined a group of African Americans gathered peacefully at the Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, for a Bible study.

He presented his material in lecture series, courses at Candler, scholarly gatherings, and seminars for clergy, laity, and church officials.

The gathering was «a unique opportunity to witness the authentic demonstration of a vibrantly growing Chinese church under dynamic indigenous leadership,» said Nana Yaw Offei Awuku, a field ministry director with Scripture Union Ghana who spoke at the event.

At some point will you describe for us what a group of gathered Jesus followers looks like (if they have a person who they call «pastor», what that looks like), what they do when they meet, and how they live out their lives as the church the rest of the time.

They gathered in this district, first to plant a cross and then later, after bloody fights with the State and its forces, to build a church — a church which is due to the sweat and resistance of the workers — as Pope John Paul expressed it at his first visit to his home country.

Phil Kenneson, who teaches at Milligan College in east Tennessee, said he needed the gathering as a reminder that he's «not crazy» and that it is the world, not a church dedicated to the radical politics entailed by Jesus» way of peace, that it is out of line.

I did however experience two weeks ago at our worship gathering (what I call it cause we do very little serving so doesn't justify the name worship service I feel) and I talked about that church you posted about once — the one where the biker is involved and the pastor leading the church out into their community — and turned it on our congregation asking, what can we do in our community?

In remarks at a September 25 United Church of Christ gathering Simon acknowledged that, while his support of military force in the Balkans and elsewhere meant that he was «a Quaker of not particularly good standing,» he was «still willing to give first consideration to peaceful alternatives.»

I mean, obviously, to support those who think of the future usefulness of these bodies, and of their federative structures, in «gathered - church» more than in «churchly» terms — at that juncture I agree with Dean Kelley (Why Conservative Churches Are Growing [Harper & Row, 1972]-RRB- To put this concretely, let me offer just one example.

That does not necessitate we only have home - churches, or gather in the parks, yet these were acceptable options even with the organized Synagogues and meetings at the Temple and discussions on Solomon's porch.

Look at all the people who would love to gather with others into the church!

Reading the post and the first comment reminded me of a family member in the medical profession who in the 1970's told a group of us at a family gathering how eight people in her church would die.

Still, someone would inevitably hunt me down at the next family gathering, at church coffee hour, or at my children's schools.

We have organic church, simple church, and missional communities, but even here, in most of the books and blogs I read about this, the emphasis always seems to be that the church is only functioning when the people gather in a certain place at a certain time, usually in a house on Sunday morning.

This year, American consumers will spend $ 2.6 billion on candy — to give out to trick - or - treaters, at Halloween gatherings and at harvest parties and church activities — during the weeks leading up to Oct. 31.

Let us humble ourselves and recognize that there are many valuable and helpful and relational ways for believers to gather together and to assemble that do not look at all like what many people think of as «church.»