Sentences with phrase «inner city churches»

I attended a few inner city churches and had contact with every single one of them when I attended church â $ «and sometimes some good things were done.

In a lecture on «The Renewal of the Inner City Church,» Jim Wallis told a group of pastors true stories of declining inner - city churches that had, by the grace of God, rediscovered their mission and begun to thrive.

He has worked as a carpenter and small businessman and served as the pastor of an inner city church in Montreal.

Not exact matches

Shane Claiborne, a founding pastor of The Simple Way, a church in inner city Philadelphia, believes that our hope should be found in an alternative candidate, one that's not on the ballot for 2008.

Indeed, I have a treasured memory that gives me hope in this regard: I was once a member of an inner - city Reformed congregation that was also home to a woman from the neighborhood who considered this congregation her parish church, as it were.

Churches in the inner city have been there for people when the government has disappointed them and other citizens fled for greener pastures in the suburbs; they continue to be a crucial part of organizing and ministering to needs in the community.

Any efforts at changing the culture of the inner city will have to intersect with the African - American churches here; learning from those who have weathered the last few decades and built institutions to serve the community.

«We realised that churches in inner - city and deprived areas were missing in action.

While conducting research on inner - city churches I've had the privilege of meeting many of the kinds of people Wallis exalts, and they are making a notable impact.

The plan calls upon churches to, among other things, «adopt» street gangs and allow troubled youths to use church properties as safe havens; intercede for youth in the juvenile court system; provide vocational training to inner - city residents; organize capital for micro-enterprises; develop educational curricula heralding the achievements of blacks and Latinos; initiate neighborhood crime watch groups; and establish counseling programs for battered women and the men who abuse them.

She says the residents «think somebody owes them something,» and complains that they spend money on expensive hairstyles, makeup and leather coats but won't pay a token fee to send their children to a weeklong summer camp program her church runs for the benefit of inner - city youngsters.

Embassy Church is an inner - city congregation that serves at - risk teens and the city's homeless.

Living in low - income housing, teaching free literacy classes to refugees, setting up basketball camps for bored inner - city kids: all of it had a few costs for me personally, sure, but the holy buzz of pats on the back from friends and church people, and the feeling that I was the only person really getting what Jesus was saying — this more than made up for doing without.

Several years ago, I suggested to a leading U.S. Catholic bishop that the Campaign for Human Development be transformed into a campaign for inner - city schools, because, as Brinig and Garnett demonstrate, these schools are the Church's best anti-poverty and empowerment program — indeed, they may be America's best anti-poverty program.

Churches in inner cities and poor rural areas are closing, while those that remain are often composed of commuting members with little interest in the church's neighbors.

As Jesse Jackson used to shout at the beginning of worship in his inner - city church services: «You were nobody.

Whatever is unique in the Episcopal Church would be even more difficult to define in the inner city; not many residents here are worried about apostolic succession, valid sacraments or Henry VIII's sex life.

In the inner city we quickly go deeper than the culturally conditioned concepts of the Episcopal Church, or we do not survive.

Many turn - of - the - century Holiness bodies, archetypically the Nazarenes and the Pilgrim Holiness Church, understood their special calling to be ministry to the poor, especially those in the inner cities — and this impulse was epitomized in the Salvation Army.

But the race - neutral approach was not a smokescreen, since all of Milwaukee's inner - city churches and their members, regardless of race, have a practical stake in the economic condition of the core city.

It's just not seen as a priority, and yet, in our inner cities, if it were not for the minority ethnic people, the Church of England would not be represented.

Ramona was a leader of her struggling inner - city church, with an infectious and earthy love of her Lord.

This is what Stanley Hauerwas and William Willimon describe in a recent account of an inner - city church.

Inner - city Catholic schools (the Church in America's most effective social welfare program) demonstrate that time and again: They spend less than the government schools, and their students learn much more — and not just in quantifiable, standardized - testing terms.

The best strategy for churches may be to again make the inner city a staging area for upward and outward mobility.

Churches should be realistic about the limits of what they can accomplish in the inner city.

Rivers is now heavily involved in promoting church leadership in inner - city neighborhoods.

I have spent the last several years trying to be incarnation to the inner city areas here in Colorado and have often found that God and in many ways his church is here.

For a while Protestant Churches appeared more willing to support missions overseas than they were to support missions in American slums or in the declining inner - city areas.

Thousands of Protestant churches in America were disrupted or uprooted as their parishioners moved out of the inner city into the suburbs.

It was symbolic of a growing concern on the part of the Churches to discover more adequate means of ministering to the inner - city situation.

The problem is to co-ordinate the life of the church in the suburbs with that of the church in the inner city in order that both together might minister to the total urban setting.

Here we return to the emphasis upon the more inclusive church — inclusive of people in the suburbs and inner city, of all races, of people of many different opinions and on both sides of most conflicts.

My «fleshy desires» have me giving to various charities (not the church) to help educate, feed, and cloth children the world over, spending years in the field helping those less fortunate, volunteering my time teaching inner city school children, and doing my best to live in love not in fear.

Boyagoda deftly traces the manifold careers of Richard Neuhaus, from the stringencies of a Depression boyhood (in 1936, when Richard was born, his father made do on $ 81 a month) through a poor inner - city church in Brooklyn to the corridors of, if not power, exactly, at least influence in the world's omphalos, Manhattan.

Urbanization has called forth two types of reaction in Protestantism: first, the church and the ministry have devised numerous means of reaching out to all kinds of people and groups in the cities; and second, attempts have been made to strengthen the inner fellowship of the local church, to bring about a genuine community in which each individual has a sense of being a member of the one body.

At this time, the Church of England was taking the inner cities very seriously — this was the Thatcher era, when the government was seen as really neglecting the poor.

Like Wesley, such men as Phineas Bresee, the dominant figure of the Church of the Nazarene, and A. B. Simpson, founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance, left socially elite churches to minister among the poor of the inner city slums.

He has become frustrated with this vision of ministry to the affluent and wants to start a church in a run - down inner - city neighborhood where relationships can be built among downwardly mobile people of a variety of ethnic backgrounds.

Rivers is doubtless a fine person with a vibrant ministry, but is his work at the Azusa Christian Community representative of inner - city churches?

Norman B. Bendroth is development associate with the Inner City Christian Association in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and a minister in the United Church of Christ.

In 1996 former HUD chief Henry Cisneros praised the Mid-North Church Council of Indianapolis, an ecumenical coalition, for its social services to the Mapleton - Fall Creek neighborhood, a poor, primarily black area in the inner city.

Helping people overcome addiction to pornography or alcohol, creating space in our churches or ministries for people who are not yet followers of Jesus, or even getting to know the neighbors or co-workers who have emigrated from different parts of the world are all great ways of bringing justice in places other than the inner - city.

The church may have left an inner - city area, and so need to return to a storefront or support a Negro church in order to alleviate in a total push the kind of conditions which cause mental illness.

«I am waiting to finish making contact with important inner city neighborhood and church leaders to build on my historical understanding of worsening urban problems that will be important issues in this campaign,» Guy said today.

He's gone to inner - city churches, farm fields and, earlier this month, became the first Republican gubernatorial candidate to march in a gay pride parade.

But a decade ago several trends in American education, and in the Catholic Church, made a Catholic - operated public school seem increasingly possible: 1) the traditional, parish - based Catholic school system, especially in the inner cities, was crumbling; 2) equally troubled urban public - school systems were failing to educate most of their students; and 3) a burgeoning charter school movement, born in the early 1990s, was beginning to turn heads among educators in both the private and public sectors.

But even if Church leaders are open to governance and operational change, inner - city Catholic schools still need financial resources to survive.

CHAT is a non-profit group that works with kids in the Church Hill neighborhood of inner - city Richmond, Virginia.

Moving between their worlds, Christian and Jewish, African - American and white, impoverished and well - to - do, Albom observes how these very different men employ faith similarly in fighting for survival: the older, suburban rabbi embracing it as death approaches; the younger, inner - city pastor relying on it to keep himself and his church afloat.