Sentences with phrase «larger urban churches»

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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.»

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.

These multiple aims of churches and schools are again multiplied as one proceeds from grand statements about the purpose of the large organizations to the specialized goals of boards and departments, of courses and classes, of rural and urban congregations, of ministries of preaching and education and pastoral work and of preparation for such particular functions.

I like that in a large, urban Catholic church I'm with people I would never be with otherwise.

The translator, Boniface Ramsey, O.P., is a seasoned student of the church fathers and an accomplished translator; for this task, it is not beside the point to note that he is also a pastor of a large urban parish, and thus able to present Cassian as he was intended to be read, as a guide to the Christian life.

The bi-vocational pastor might be found in a small rural church, an urban church plant, a house church, or even on the staff of a large church.

In urban areas, the large associations of 100 or more churches should be divided into more manageable groups of about 25 churches.

In that role, Cameron was chairman of the Budget Committee with responsibility for the development and oversight of the capital city's $ 300,000,000 combined annual budgets; recruited and secured authorization of the largest urban redevelopment project east of the Mississippi River; led the development and implementation of an economic recruitment strategy that netted over $ 1 Billion in new economic investments; and moved 92 % of the city's homeless population into paths out of poverty through a collaborative effort with nearly 100 churches and homeless service providers.