Sentences with phrase «life of our local communities»

The prophetic witness to the gospel depended for its authentication upon the quality of life of these local communities.

We also support wider projects organised by Love Support Unite focusing on improving the lives of local communities through sustainable education, health checks, feeding programmes and clean water.

Shane Bergin is honored with the 2014 AAAS Early Career Award for Public Engagement with Science for his commitment and demonstrated impact to engaging the public in science through innovative methods that bring science into the daily lives of his local community.

2014 Shane Bergin is honored for his commitment and demonstrated impact to engaging the public in science through innovative methods that bring science into the daily lives of his local community.

Noting that, «responsible palm oil production can play an important role in improving the lives of the local communities,» Wilmar says it is working with the government to ensure its plantations don't overlap with the national park.

Everything we do is to enrich the lives of our local community members and their beloved pets.

Experience real Thai food and daily life of local communities.

VISION To enhance the quality of life of the local community through sustainable tourism MISSION BTB has identified short, medium, and long - term action plans: Short - term action plan: To consolidate stakeholders by updating and maintaining databases and through operational auditing To improve the Balinese people's knowledge of, understanding of, and support for the growth of -LSB-...]

The Foundation's programs are designed to support serious artists making important work in ideal, inspiring conditions while contributing to the life of local communities.

Deforestation can disrupt the lives of local communities, sometimes with devastating consequences.

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There's nothing wrong with opening a bike shop in your hometown and making a living serving a community of local riders.

Above all else, encourage a program of patronizing your local bookstore, supermarket, shoe store, you name it, in the interest of maintaining the life of your community, even at some expense.

The tunnel threat report also accused Netanyahu and Ya'alon of endangering Israelis living near Gaza by halting government funding for their local security teams, and pulling out the soldiers who used to stand guard outside their communities in the year and a half leading up to the operation.

«Many expats think that learning a few vocabulary words and learning to navigate the new city or eating local cuisine means we've adapted, but living cross-culturally requires much deeper exploration of the values and beliefs of the local community.»

8,915), and hundreds of other small Colorado communities will have access to innovation - fueling capital that could change their local economy, or change all of our lives.

You'll find a built - in community of English - speaking locals and expats — it's said that more than 11,000 U.S. retirees currently live in Costa Rica.

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.

Coca - Cola Consolidated, its philanthropic arm, Coke Cares, and its local branches strive daily to meet the needs of the communities where we live and work.

CMIT Solutions prides itself on making a difference in the lives of the small - and medium - sized business owners in its local communities.

But quality of life for retirees moving abroad also depends in large part on being able to fit in quickly, learn the ropes, and mix well with the locals in their adapted communities.

The North Vancouver Chamber of Commerce is a not for profit organization comprised of businesses, professionals, and other community groups working together to ensure a sustainable local economy that supports a true live, work and play community.

But it sounded ideal... a small - but - friendly expat community and welcoming locals living happily together in a typical Panamanian small town... and nearby, long stretches of nearly deserted beaches they could have almost to themselves.

A sale to the employees living in an area protects the jobs and wealth of the employees, benefits the local community, and allows the entrepreneurs who built the businesses to cash out their equity interest so they can enjoy retirement.

Community banks and credit unions channel most of their loans to the neighborhoods where their depositors live and work, helping to keep local communities vibrant and growing.

Some of the highlights to this package are real time exclusive leads every month for the first 2 years of your business, Network Referral building whereby we actually set up local appointments for you with people who can refer you business in your community and marketing for the life of your business!

Cenovus officials make a point of meeting with each community several times a year to discuss local concerns and ensure the company is living up to its commitments.

Beyond that, the chemicals used in the dyeing and treatment of textiles is often unregulated and dumped directly into rivers and streams killing aquatic life and poisoning local communities.

Lasch reminds us that the corrosion of our democratic way of life and especially our public discourse has its roots in widespread distrust of our institutions and the traditions around which they have developed and of which they are the expressions — whether the family, church, and local communities, or private enterprise and all the various levels of government.

Can we really know God in the details of our lives when we are separated from the goodness of our neighbours, our local communities, our families by our schedules and our platforms?

Because of the culture we live in we put people in the place where they can speak to trans - local communities.

So while the «church» as it is today did not begin until Acts 2, we can say that throughout the history of God's people, there have been local gatherings of believers to accomplish God's will in their lives and communities.

We lived in Holland for a couple of years with our children back in the 90's and I worked with an electrical company that had a supervisor over us that was a leader within the local Muslim community.

In local communities, Hassler suggests, ancient truths abide: words retain their power to save or ruin lives, good and evil can yet be distinguished, people remain accountable for their acts, and sin, penance, and absolution are still valid coin of the realm.

It will require that we turn more of our attention homeward, away from raging national controversies and toward the everyday lives of our living moral communities — toward family, school, and congregation; toward civic priorities and local commitments; toward neighbors in need and friends in crisis.

As the first Humanist Chaplain at USC, he is committed to developing a community that offers regular inspiration, pastoral care, supportive fellowship and service opportunities to students, faculty, staff members and local families and individuals exploring or actively pursuing secular goodness as a way of life.

If a minister is fortunate enough to live in one of the eighty - two communities (in thirty - two states) in which there is a local Council on Alcoholism, he should support its work as well as encourage his parishioners to do so.

Restoring the gift of the Evangelist to the life of the local church should be a top priority for every leader that wants to have a missional congregation that impacts their community with the gospel.

Catholic identity was presented almost entirely in terms of belonging to the local community, with little mention of supernatural relationships or a personal spiritual life.

I would have to say that the people here with a corner on the market of «hate speech, legalism, and self - righteousness» would have to be the secular groups here: the politicians (any flavour), local environmental groups, the local anti-religious groups, public servants who want to squeeze Christians out of community life, and the local media.

Whether hosting an event on campus to inform your community about a humanitarian issue happening on the other side of the world, going into your city to help at a local organization or picking up trash on the way to class, getting involved and engaged in any way possible is an important facet to add to your college life.

If he knows it and lives in it as the tradition of the great Church he has an authority in the local and the contemporary Christian community which the man who represents only the tradition of a national or denominational or localized community can not have.

In Living Faithfully in a Fragmented World: Lessons for the Church from MacIntyre's «After Virtue» (1998), Wilson responds to moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre, who concludes his celebrated 1991 critique of modernity by calling for «the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us....

We need to know that sustainable local communities are possible in principle, that in them enjoyable life is possible, and that some current trends have the potential of actualizing possibilities of these kinds..

Find out if your community has a local chapter of Black Lives Matter or attend the next Gay Christian Network conference or Reformation Project gathering.

Clearly, traditional Christmas carols can't be sung (there's a large university near where I live that attracts graduate students from all over the world, as well as a substantial local Jewish community, and probably not more than 60 or 70 percent of the children at the school are from even nominally Christian households), so most of the singing is of songs of the saccharine - secular genre — songs like «White Christmas.»

The local habitation for much of his life was Salem, Massachusetts, with important chapters elsewhere: as a boy along the idyllic shores of Lake Sebago, Maine; as a student at Maine's Bowdoin College; as a young idealist at the Brook Farm Utopian community west of Boston (1841); as a married man in Emerson's Concord (1842 — 45); as a summer neighbor of Herman Melville in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts (1850); as a mature writer and consular official in Liverpool, England (1853 — 58); and as a traveler and resident in Italy (1858 — 59)-- before a final period of ill health and death in Concord (1859 — 1864).

There are millions of Americans from my generation who volunteer in their community groups, their local schools, or USAID, or Peace Corps to improve the lives of their fellow men.

It depends on how Ivan is defining «local community» and how he envisions it being proposed as the «arrangement for us today,» but against his basic note of resignation I join Mr. T. (Tocqueville) and the A-Team (Aristotelians) in insisting upon the greater naturalness and liberty - fostering character of township / polis life, and thus upon our unavoidable duty to cultivate whatever qualities and institutional features of that life that we can in our circumstances.

It was the schooling in local self - government and the institutions so developed back in the hills and valleys of ancient Palestine that gave the uprooted Jews immediately a social organism able to withstand the shock of exile and to support and adapt the community in its struggle to live in an alien environment.

This week, author and speaker Jen Hatmaker took to Twitter to describe her local church and the impact it is having on the lives of individuals and communities.