Sentences with phrase «hundreds of congregations»

The mission of Interfaith Power & Light is to help hundreds of congregations of all faiths to save energy, go green, and respond to climate change.

Thanks to Bill and the hundreds of congregations who are putting NWEI programs into action in their communities!

This is like hundreds of congregations taking place across the city this morning, but with one notable exception: there is no god.

Not exact matches

Once this congregation was group of German immigrants living in what was then farmland across the river from New York City» that was over a hundred years ago» and the primary goal seemed simply to keep the struggling congregation from folding, at another time the chief task seemed racial integration, at another outreach into the community, at another service to the community and social action, at another learning to worship God in Spanish.

So Hopewell read systematically through the American and European literature on congregations and ministry of the last several decades, a survey of several hundred works that is recapitulated in this book's second chapter and its extensive notes.

In March 2012, he became the Director for the Lifelines to Healing Campaign with the PICO National Network, a campaign led by hundreds of faith congregations throughout the United States committed to addressing gun violence and mass incarceration of young people of color.

Prior to the 2009 change, «hundreds of gay and lesbian clergy were forced out of congregations or served under secrecy,» Murray said.

And I can say to them, as I say to you, there are hundreds, and I would guess, thousands, of congregations across the country that are deeply involved in this process of seeing Christianity again.

But 1,000 or 10,000 people spread out over hundreds of smaller churches and ministries can do just as much ministry (and some of it in better ways, for the reasons you've mentioned) than when we're all clumped together in one big congregation.

Let us say that an hypothetical minister serves a congregation which includes five hundred adults representing a cross-section of the American population.

This little congregation was composed of eighteen families, but in the next thirteen years under Niebuhr's leadership its membership was to reach nearly eight hundred.

Today, the member congregations of the SBC continue to cooperate together through an organizational structure that developed organically over the last one hundred years.

The question is, why is it so hard for our congregations to consider this kind of stewardship if we have another hundred years to live?

The pastor is less likely to be a critical factor in membership trends in churches of one hundred or fewer members because of the natural capacity of the small congregation to be like an extended family.

The small family unit known as a nuclear family today is the typical family type of the modern era in Western cultures.1 During the last two hundred years, identity has been associated more with the family unit than with larger social units like a congregation.

Since 1960 over two hundred books and countless reports have examined either single congregations or their species, and any new work such as mine gratefully follows the tracks that many sorts of explorers — consultants, management specialists, sociologists, psychologists, ethnographers, historians, and others — have already laid down.1 Prior to 1960 the investigation of the local church was more occasional, and except for a few books written to enliven parish programs2 and the pioneering sociology of H. Paul Douglass, 3 the analysis occurred primarily in Europe.4

For unlike hundreds of other Messianic Jewish congregations in North America, Avodat Yisrael (the name means in service of Israel») has been aligned with a mainline denomination; it has received some quarter of a million dollars in start - up funds from the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

But though I dealt with a constituency of several hundred churches, I do not remember a single congregation's cutting its support of my council of churches while it was itself solvent and growing.

The church simply can not do its job in the city if its members are divided among hundreds of little congregations, each absorbed in itself and its problems.

I'm well aware that in many hundreds of local congregations the gospel is being effectively preached, the sacraments are being reverently administered, people are praying and getting answers to their prayers, and the sick, the.

Looking back on 42 years of pastoring in the same congregation, with a hundred or more new member classes behind me, I bear witness to the sufficiency of Christ to call and gather his own in our time.

Then apparently the old stuff was outdated so he sent his son to «fulfill» the old scriptures but then the son doesn't write anything to replace it, then nearly half a century later other people start writing about the son and claim that as the updated word of God in the form of hundreds of letters to the different congregations, mainly from the new «leader» of the Church Paul, who again changed the tenor of the message.

In a catalog I recently edited of devices and instruments for congregational research, only a small minority of the hundred or so entries is designed to explore a congregation's narrative identity.20 Most doctor of ministry programs continue the tradition: perusal of the theses and essays these programs produce strongly suggests that projects that employ contextual, mechanist, or organicist methods are more likely to be accepted than those that delve into congregational culture and story.

Against a background of these events and actions, in which more than fifty congregations are now involved and in which hundreds of people have gained experience in dealing with elected and appointed authorities, the story of the Nehemiah Project can he understood As Saul Alinsky said: «The relevant skill in modern urban life is that of knowing how to hold public officials accountable» — and that, as we shall see, is what EBC and the Nehemiah Project have been all about.

The congregation was composed of approximately one hundred pastors and twenty - five spouses.

We recognize that one is being preached in a local congregation of a hundred people, the other on television to a national audience.

He amuses himself vanity publishing sixth form leftism to a congregation of hundreds, has no experience of anything, no achievements and no special talent.

Sperm whales live in groups of up to 12 individuals, but once in a while come together in mass «scratchathons» — congregations of hundreds of animals who rub against each other, shedding encrusted layers of skin in a gathering that has both a social and an exfoliating function.

Pastor Jay Reinke converts his church into a makeshift dorm and counseling center, allowing hundreds of men, some with checkered pasts, to stay despite the congregation's objections and neighbors» fears.

The demonstration was organized by the Edah HaChareidis — a Rabbinic umbrella association representing hundreds of Orthodox Jewish congregations with a combined membership of over 250,000.