Sentences with phrase «life for community members»

I've had the privilege of acting for many First Nations communities across the country and, at the end of the day, improving the quality of life for community members is the ultimate objective and I think this will go a long way in facilitating that.»

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Hashrocket is known for its extensive use of the open - source web framework for software code writing, so a member of the online Ruby community who lived in Chile reached out to Fernandez because he was interested in operating RoR in Chile.

Suddenly, there was a staking rush in our community,» said Chief Cornelius Wabasse, attending a Christmas feast for band members living in Thunder Bay, Ont.

For leaders who live out both legacy and resume values, going the extra mile for fellow team members, customers and the community is the noFor leaders who live out both legacy and resume values, going the extra mile for fellow team members, customers and the community is the nofor fellow team members, customers and the community is the norm.

In support of our philosophy to give where we live, TELUS, our team members and retirees have contributed $ 440 million to charitable and not - for - profit organizations and volunteered more than 6.8 million hours of service to local communities since 2000.

We all go to work each day to provide for our families, make a difference in the lives of our clients, community members and industry peers, while building a business we can be proud of!

As a company, we encourage our employees to strive for work - life balance and become active members in their community.

There she worked with a team to manage the social media engagement of their 7 million member community, and ran advertising operations for all major live streamed events hosted on the site.

i am an honored member in my community, I have changed children lives, I have changed adult lives for the better.

The acute sufferings of that time brought to a head the misgivings about God's providence in history which had been aroused by long - continued misfortunes and disappointments; for these sufferings not only fell upon a people which had made sincere and persistent efforts to observe the law of God in its corporate life, but they fell most heavily upon the best members of the community.

Around Agatha's moral axis revolve, frequently in erratic orbit, the members of Staggerford's closely knit Catholic community: French Lopat, the Vietnam vet who scratches out a living as a fake Indian for the tourist trade; Lillian, Agatha's best friend, who gets her news from supermarket tabloids; Imogene, Lillian's daughter, a liar and backstabber; Sister Judith, a New Age nun who imagines the Creation as God laying a giant egg.

The motivation for this pastoral practice is clear: it is the belief that the love generated by a spiritually coherent community is greater than the sum total of the love emanating from its individual members» lives.

Cheryl Ann Smith, the director of Madonna House Robin hood's Bay and a member of the Madonna house community for 32 years, gives an insight into the life and spirituality of Catherine Doherty, founder of the Madonna house movement.

Religious members of the movement are embarking on our 40 Days for Life campaign, in which we pray, fast, hold vigil, and perform community outreach, all in service of saving men, women, and children from abortion.

Along the way I became a Catholic and then an oblate of the community — a lay member who promises to, as much as possible, make use of the same framework for life that the monks do: the Rule, frequent Eucharist, daily devotions, the incorporation of silence.

It placed great emphasis on the establishment of lodges for communal living; each member of the lodge would engage in a useful community activity such as cultivation, education, or commerce which would make the lodge self - sufficient.

«1 Many of us who live in urban, industrial settings forget that we are members of a larger community of life, that we share with other creatures a common evolutionary heritage, that we depend on them for our sustenance, and that the earth is their home as well as our own.

Evangelism offices and commissions gather and affirm the various groups that identify themselves under their broad banner; they sponsor workshops on church growth, offering helpful techniques for how to make church life more inclusive, how to bring back those who drift away, how to incorporate new members more quickly, how to set up and carry out community - building activities such as lay visitation.

This unique emphasis upon what in Anglo - Saxon cultures we call «the communitarian individual» (the individual who is not atomic and alone, but a member of many different, smaller communities) provides two different forms of protection from the State, one for the individual person and the other for what Edmund Burke called «the little platoons» of daily life.

The quality of life in the community has been on the whole satisfactory for the members.

The Bible was not written for the unbelievers (atheist, members of the religious and gay community, etc) and in their sinful state they are alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them (Eph.

After several months in a Bible study - growth group (led by their pastor) the members began to look for ways to share their new awareness of relationships and the Christian life in their community.

The actual character of this person, the course his life had taken, and the values he soon came to hold for the members of the community led also to a new definition of the word «Messiah.»

For as members of Christ's community the living are indeed even now in possession of the power of the resurrection, the Holy Spirit.

Bishop Azariah of Dornakal, in theologically justifying the rejection of the reserved minority communal electorate offered by Britain to the Christian community in India, spoke of how the acceptance of it would be «a direct blow to the nature of the church of Christ» at two points — one, it would force the church to function «like a religious sect, a community which seeks self - protection for the sake of its own loaves and fishes» which would prevent the fruitful exercise of the calling of the church to permeate the entire society across boundaries of caste, class, language and race, a calling which can be fulfilled only through its members living alongside fellow - Indians sharing in public life with a concern for Christian principles in it; and two, it would put the church's evangelistic programme in a bad light as «a direct move to transfer so many thousands of voters from the Hindu group to the Indian Christian group» (recorded by John Webster, Dalit Christians - A History).

The biblical understanding of national life was based on the notion of community with charity for all the members, a community, a community supported by public and private virtue.

Churches which are tempted to be clerical and male dominated are called to be living communities in which all members can exercise their gifts and share the responsibilities... Churches are tempted to be exclusionist and privileged but are called to be servants of a Lord who is the crucified Christ who claimed no privilege for himself but suffered for all.

Neue is concerned about the impact of Christ in this world, about living for the sake of others and about following Jesus as humble members of an impassioned community.

Therefore any church community that would discipline its members for living contrary to a biblical walk is now thought to be endangering the liberty of such members.

Until recent decades, for example, Liberian people in Poro Society masks both represented and regulated corporate life in the West African interior.3 In donning a mask and a concealing costume, a Poro member joined the mask's spirit to perform stylized tasks and movements that not only governed much of community behavior but also impersonated the hopes and values that shaped the society's character.

Pray for us and for everyone who is trying to provide equal opportunities for members of the Christian community and other minorities to live freely and in peace.»

For example, several ISEAL members have come together to form the Global Living Wage Coalition, and ISEAL is working in partnership with The Sustainable Food Lab and GIZ on the Living Income Community of Practice.

Australian Organic will continue to stand up for and look after our farmer member interests to ensure they are able to live and farm within their communities and do not bear the brunt of anti-GMO — as opposed to pro-organic — campaigning.

Serving two - thirds of Arizona's 15 counties, the organization is a member of Feeding America, the national network of food banks, and is committed to volunteerism, building community relationships, and improving the quality of life for Arizonans in need.

Currently comprised of six teams and over 60 players, the club's tendency to attract a wide range of international people makes for an unusually multi-cultural and diverse community, offering members a unique opportunity to meet students and professionals from other departments, colleges and walks of life.

tori has since served the communities she has lived in as a member of la leche league, a WIC breastfeeding peer counselor, chair for onslow county breastfeeding coalition, and now as an international board certified lactation consultant.

It was a lovely group of moms (it's always so thrilling for me to meet members of this community in real life!)

But, as API Resource Advisory Council member Lisa Reagan — Executive Editor of Kindred Media and Community and cofounder of Families for Conscious Living — explains in this API interview, we are never done growing and learning.

A Board of Directors consisting of ten local community members acts to improve the quality of life for people utilizing the park system.

Developmental Special Needs www.tri-counties.org Tri-Counties Regional Center provides supports and services for individuals with developmental disabilities living in San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties so that they may live fully and safely as active and independent members of our community.

Spend a warm spring evening with friends and community members strolling lantern lit gardens, enjoying delicious food and drink, and listening to live music — all for a good cause!

The EFR Counseling Program aims to provide easily accessible and high - quality counseling services to individuals (youth and adult) and families in a safe and confidential setting to address issues of depression, anxiety, addiction, family or marital conflict, and / or other concerns that impact daily functioning and quality of life for all members of our community.

I think I feel more like a member of the mom community for finding the people (who inevitably have the stuff) because my family all lives so far away.

«I'm sure I speak for all Mass Audubon members and staff in saluting the accomplishments of our «Shaping the Future» program, which has helped so many communities across Massachusetts develop tools to enhance their quality of life through sustainable development,» Tepper said.

Facts for life (2010)- Breastfeeding - HIV - Safe Motherhood - Newborn Health The handbook, Facts for Life, provides vital messages and information for mothers, fathers, other family members and caregivers and communities to use in changing behaviours and practices that can save and protect the lives of children and help them grow and develop to their full potentlife (2010)- Breastfeeding - HIV - Safe Motherhood - Newborn Health The handbook, Facts for Life, provides vital messages and information for mothers, fathers, other family members and caregivers and communities to use in changing behaviours and practices that can save and protect the lives of children and help them grow and develop to their full potentLife, provides vital messages and information for mothers, fathers, other family members and caregivers and communities to use in changing behaviours and practices that can save and protect the lives of children and help them grow and develop to their full potential.

Abrams E, Eliminating vertical transmission, Rights here, right now: Slide presentation at XVIII International AIDS Conference, July 18 - 23, 2010, Vienna, Austria ICAP Infant Feeding in the Context of HIV slide set ICAP Video, Saving two lives: Improving retention, adherence & psychsocial support within PMTCT services, Uploaded by ICAP Columbia on 3 Mar 2011 This video is a component of the «Improving Retention, Adherence and Psychosocial Support within PMTCT Services: A Toolkit for Health Workers,»; reinforces key PMTCT messages; can be shown to a wide range of audiences, including PMTCT clients, family members, and caregivers of HIV - exposed and HIV - infected children; including in clinic waiting rooms, as part of group education sessions, and in the community.

The education is deemed suitable if it «primarily equips a child for life within the community of which he is a member... as long as it does not foreclose the child's options in later years to adopt some other form of life if he wishes to do so.»

PA members create programs and events with the surrounding Cincinnati community that convey the spirit of Waldorf education, enhancing community life and public relations for CWS.

Formed community - level committees (shuras) to mobilize communities and health shura members to communicate messages from Home - based Life Saving Skills (HBLSS) b; conducted timed and targeted counseling home visits for pregnant women, other caregivers, and household decision - makersb; held community meetings for promoting HBLSS messagesb

The handbook, Facts for Life, provides vital messages and information for mothers, fathers, other family members and caregivers and communities to use in changing behaviours and practices that can save and protect the lives of children and help them grow and develop to their full potential.