Sentences with phrase «in urban church»

Groups of young, well - educated, active professionals have gathered in urban churches, smashing the stereotype in many Chinese people's minds of Christians as elderly, infirm, sick, or disabled.

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Amy L. Sherman is Director of Urban Ministry at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Charlottesville, Va., and author of Restorers of Streets to Dwell In: Effective Church - Based Ministry Among the Poor (Crossway, forthcomingin Charlottesville, Va., and author of Restorers of Streets to Dwell In: Effective Church - Based Ministry Among the Poor (Crossway, forthcomingIn: Effective Church - Based Ministry Among the Poor (Crossway, forthcoming).

China's urban churches will be a major force in its democratization, for a free society requires a civil society capable of standing up to tyranny and the abuse of power.

One small example of this in our neighborhood is the urban farm one of my friends and mentors started to provide jobs to «returning citizens»: It required the city to help give away land and clear vacant property and some startup capital from a local farming company, but it is based on the church's understanding of the needs of the people and explicitly tied to the concept that faithful believers can help disciple and encourage people who have been incarcerated for harming others, walking them through the transformative process.

As Todd Brenneman argues in his recent book, Homespun Gospel: The Triumph of Sentimentality in Contemporary American Evangelicalism, sentimentality may be a defining characteristic of religious life for many Americans, and so most readers in the dominant Evangelical culture, outside a few hip and urban churches, are more likely to encounter the treacly poetry of Ruth Bell Graham than the spiritually searing work of R. S. Thomas or T. S. Eliot.

By visiting the sick, organizing the church and developing an urban ministry, the pastor imbued the members of the congregation with a new sense of confidence in their value to one another and, in particular, to the neighborhood.

I grew up in Detroit, among urban, working - class blacks while my white mother sent me to a suburban, lily white, private Christian school and a large, white Baptist Church who denied me baptism in 1987 for being «half - black.»

Standing in front of his congregation at Ecclesia Church, a congregation he admits is different - more diverse, more urban - than many evangelical churches - Chris Seay encouraged them to do so something he said combines the ideas of sacrifice and devotion that mark the Lenten season, the 40 - day lead up to Easter.

When she's not writing creative non-fiction, short stories, and poetry, Erin spends her time working on her Masters of Arts in Urban Studies online through Eastern University, fighting for the last carrot in the house with her two rabbits, Bug and Sage, and enjoying mentoring time with local youth both in and out of church settings.

It has been the means for the transformation of many socially marginal groups in the U.S., from poor rural whites in Methodist and Assemblies of God churches to rural and dislocated urban blacks in Baptist and Church of God in Christ churches.

His church and ours, along with some other ministries here in the city, collaborate to do an urban high school camp every summer.

Many left to plant other churches here in Chicago or for some other ministry venture, and many left by virtue of the fluidity of being urban in the 21st Century.

In a village the church may still be one of the centers of community life, whereas in urban areas when people move, they may find it hard to relate to a new churcIn a village the church may still be one of the centers of community life, whereas in urban areas when people move, they may find it hard to relate to a new churcin urban areas when people move, they may find it hard to relate to a new church.

People make a lot of assumptions about women pastors — that they have to be aggressively ambitious, that they can only survive in a liberal and urban environment, that they can't serve in Reformed churches, that they must devote all their work and writing to defending their call.

In the great welter of urban and rural communes, political and religious collectives, sects, cults, and churches that have sprung up in recent years, there are many interesting developmentIn the great welter of urban and rural communes, political and religious collectives, sects, cults, and churches that have sprung up in recent years, there are many interesting developmentin recent years, there are many interesting developments.

Despite the criticisms, there's widespread agreement that when it comes to church planting in urban areas, the Church of England is experiencing considerable gchurch planting in urban areas, the Church of England is experiencing considerable gChurch of England is experiencing considerable growth.

But it could be the nucleus of a complete neighborhood, one which has a church community at its enter, and the potential to promote growth in an urban rather than suburban sprawl pattern (much as the most beautiful parts of contemporary London grew in the 17th and 18th centuries around small residential - square developments).

Sam Hailes investigates the successes of church plants in urban areas

While churches in rural areas often struggle, urban centres are seeing more success.

The churches have happily been able to do some pioneering in urban centers, which of course needs to be continued.

Colloquium explores such issues as race, urban ministry and the role of women in the Church of God (Anderson, Indiana).

An urban center under church auspices that succeeds in getting personnel to offer the needed variety of services will no doubt survive, in just the same way that our church - related hospitals have survived.

Beginning with the missionary movement in the early nineteenth century the church began offering ministries to people in special settings or with special problems, including military and hospital chaplains, and service to the disadvantaged in urban, rural, suburban and metropolitan settings.

In her engaging book on this period, Jeanne Halgren Kilde of Macalaster College explores the development of the auditorium church, showing how the style grew out of urban congregations» desire for heartfelt, accessible and participatory worship.

While it is widely agreed that the causes for the morbidity of communities in urban centers are traceable to diverse factors, churches can not be quiescent in the face of them.

Urban churches grew and prospered as a result of that population movement; but the rural ethos continued to be reflected in worship, organization and mission priorities.

Church workers in the South face the complex challenge of empowering peasants in the countryside or urban barrio dwellers to host an encounter in a way that allows them to feel equal to the northerners.

Church - sponsored housing projects, some of them congregationally funded, are commonplace in major urban centers.

Another example of the trend of congregations establishing an urban presence is the Metropolitan Community Church in downtown Washington, D.C..

Ministers cast about for responses to displaced farm families, to the deepening misery of the rural and urban poor, to the epidemic use of drugs in every strata of society, to half a million homeless children; they seek techniques for church growth, approaches to spiritual nurture and meaningful worship.

The coalition of black churches in urban communities can no longer be counted on for block Democratic votes, and despite the president's pleas, he may find that his most loyal constituency will not be able to bring significant wins to the Democratic column come Tuesday.

(Urban is speculated to have thought that a Western - led crusade against Islam might help to mend the schism which had split the Eastern and Western churches just a few years before, in 1054.)

And while the strains of the post-Conciliar years (which were also years of tremendous demographic transformation on the American urban / suburban landscape) have tested that claim as never before, there remain, in this, the sesquicentennial year of the erection of the diocese, many impressive signs of vitality in a local church that has been distinguished for its rich ethnic diversity, its identification of parish and neighborhood, its impressive clerical and lay leadership, its self - conscious social and political liberalism, and its sense of itself as the «lead diocese» in matters ranging from liturgical renewal to Christian social action.

As the changing socio - economic conditions of nineteenth - century urban, industrial America demanded of the church a reassessment of its understanding of people in society, it was the Social Gospel movement which arose to take seriously the reality of corporate sin and the need for corporate response.

Mitchell, pastor and founder of Atlanta's Urban Foursquare Church, knows the day is coming soon when his congregation most likely will have to abandon its home in one of the city's poorest neighborhoods.

Sally Gaze, a rural rector who chairs the national Fresh Expressions rural round table, wrote in a recent article: «Rural Christians can sometimes feel that they are the poor relation compared to larger urban and suburban churches.

This is why I understood the longing, inarticulate but powerful, of those rootless, churchless urban Americans who shed tears over a mythical little church in the vale.

In Indianapolis, my own church, Englewood Christian Church, is working with a wide range of neighborhood organizations toward the well - being of our urban church, Englewood Christian Church, is working with a wide range of neighborhood organizations toward the well - being of our urban Church, is working with a wide range of neighborhood organizations toward the well - being of our urban place.

There are many urban churches in New York and elsewhere successful with that group, especially the young professionals Rimbo thinks will approve of his impending same - sex union.

RURAL SUCCESSESIn an otherwise excellent article about church planting in urban areas («A Time to Plant», July), I was disappointed to read the phrase...

A pope, Urban II, did give impetus to the Crusades, and though the Crusader kingdom of Jerusalem came to an end eight hundred years ago, the evidence of a century of Crusader rule is visible in the commanding castles and European - style churches that still rise from the arid landscape, as well as the longstanding bonds between Middle Eastern and Western Christians, especially in Lebanon and the Holy Land.

In this move, the Church of England plan to open new churches in deprived urban estates and support growing churches in eight dioceseIn this move, the Church of England plan to open new churches in deprived urban estates and support growing churches in eight diocesein deprived urban estates and support growing churches in eight diocesein eight dioceses.

In a statement, the Church of England said:» # 1.54 million has been allocated for Blackburn Diocese over six years to fund work in outer urban estates and parisheIn a statement, the Church of England said:» # 1.54 million has been allocated for Blackburn Diocese over six years to fund work in outer urban estates and parishein outer urban estates and parishes.

(The church's recent history is told in several places, including Lowell Livezey's Public Religion and Urban Transformation, New York University Press.)

He launched The Rebuild Initiative in 2011 to answer the call to see more churches planted in the urban context, and he currently serves as the president of The Rebuild Initiative.

The challenges of a number of urban churches in Chicago are outlined featuring diverse intellectual energy required in a changing city.

However, I do believe that urban churches are presented with unique opportunities to model the rich diversity of the kingdom of God as seen in Isaiah 11 and Rev 7:9.

While I know well that there is some great writing and teaching being done in this area my hope is that my musings as a «young» (I'm 39 and not sure what young is anymore) urban pastor of a multi-ethnic church restart can in some way contribute to this important conversation.

Churches increasingly see missions in the streets of American cities; segments of church membership stirring up controversy; urban congregations moving to the suburbs; such issues as birth control, draft resistance, rebellion.

Now this has to be beyond window - dressing of doing drive - by ministry «to» and «among» the urban poor, immigrants, and the rich, racially - ethnic diversity of the global church present in urban centers.