Sentences with phrase «local groups who»

Some are large organizations with a broad mission of promoting conservative values, while others are small, local groups who work to establish abstinence - only - until - marriage programs in schools.

Every individual action is different, but most are organised by local groups who are leading the way for climate action in their communities.

Perhaps it really is time for the No - Kill movement to remember the local groups who do all the heavy lifting.

EO has in the past contributed to government consultations to preserve the right of families to home educate and has assisted local groups who are working with individual LAs to promote better working practices.

Furthermore, within a very few years, those local groups who began with the «exaltation» interpretation had joined the consensus behind «resurrection».

After the second speaker, the leader from the visiting group turns the rostrum over to the secretary of the local group who makes announcements concerning future meetings and says: «There are no dues or fees in AA, but we do have expenses, so we'll now pass the hat.»

This no kill philosophy for me came to a head in 1995 when I pitched it to a local group who thought I was half mad, then at a big shelter who hired me to make them no kill but had all kinds of problems with the extra $ 75,000 per year that it cost, even though the community seemed more than happy to pay it.

Not exact matches

I did the unthinkable and joined the local Toastmasters chapter where I was living, which was a group of professionals who would get together once a week to practice giving their pitches.

Celis became involved with the work of Engineers without Borders Canada, a group of engineers, students and volunteers who use their creativity and problem - solving skills to help communities in Africa, and soon left her job at OPG for a year - long position in Ghana, working with the development systems of local governments.

After Trump won the presidency, Nicole Hockley, another founder of Sandy Hook Promise, said that the group would continue its efforts at the state and local level - and argued that, no matter who is in the White House, «I still don't think our country is ready yet for federal change.»

Daning Jinmao Palace, a project in northern Shanghai by China Jinmao Holdings Group, held a similar lottery on Saturday for 751 registered buyers who were vying for 382 flats priced between 10 to 20 million yuan, according to local media.

But while there is a lot we don't know, we can identify a group of taxpayers likely to face tax increases from this proposal: people with moderate to upper - moderate incomes who take itemized deductions, like those for mortgage interest and state and local taxes paid.

One officer is notorious for harassing local black residents, to the point where he has been given a street nickname of «Bro Stupid,» said Burnell Williams, who works with at - risk youth and ex-prisoners for the nonprofit group Against All Odds.

The idea came from a group of VCs, local executives, and William Brah, who had been working as a UMass assistant vice provost.

Ellen Gould is a Vancouver - based consultant who has advised local governments, consumer groups and other organizations on the potential impacts of trade agreements.

Youth employees are referred by local nonprofits including Beyond Emancipation and Not for Sale, groups that support young people who have been in foster care, lived on the streets, or faced other significant hardships.

Contact community groups and local schools to see how you can work with students who could use extra academic support.

The Alamo Angels are an exclusive group of business leaders and corporate sponsors who promote local business growth.

Throughout the area, there are dozens of local nonprofit groups who are committed to serving those in need.

Furthermore, Hoge and Wenger discovered a consensus among judicatory officers regarding pastors who have left local church ministry: «These pastors tended to be loners in the district or presbytery, for whatever reason not part of ministerial friendship groups or action groups.

Juhanda, who wore a Muslim head dressing with IS symbols during his trial, was arrested along with four others, accused of belonging to the Jamaah Ansharut Daulah group (JAD), a local militant outfit that supports IS.

Denis Sarsfield — a Westminster priest at Westminster Cathedral — who can supply any reader with more detail on local groups at least in the South of the country.

The pastor who moves to a new community will wish to establish a working relationship with the local AA group at his first opportunity.

Find a small group within the church or your local house church or find some Christians who you can relate your life questions with... your picture was a church right?

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.

Parents in the local football and cheerleading league sent out a Facebook message, asking for volunteers to fix the damage before the family — particularly the 10 - year - old girl and 9 - year - old boy, who are members of the local sports and Girl Scout group — returned home.

Early in 2002 the Mennonite Central Committee will release «Connecting Peoples,» a guide for pastors and local church leaders who want to lead groups or establish sistering relationships.

Volunteer groups should not provide employment to local gringo wannabe elites — or northern missionaries living in the South — who act in the name of the poor but actually erect barriers to true encounters because such encounters would threaten their privileged role as interlocutors.

When my wife and I moved to Pasadena, California, we joined a group of well - educated couples who were meeting in a local Baptist church on Sunday mornings for a freewheeling discussion of life, social issues and various cultural challenges to the Christian faith.

With the group there is a distinction between those members who will engage in religious activity from personal choice or in deference to tradition such as converts and parishioners of a local congregation, and those who are actively religious — temporarily or consistently — such as lay - deacons or the participants in a procession.

Representatives will also be invited from a wide range of local faith and cultural groups, as well as the emergency services personnel who responded to the fire.

They had groups that served down at the local soup kitchen, and a few radical souls who hand out tracts on the street corners downtown.

Whether Hindus should be able to build a temple outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, is one local variation on the difficulties facing new and unfamiliar groups who want to construct religious buildings.

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.

We need leaders who are willing to develop the expertise and accept the responsibility for working with a group of persons in the local church to cultivate patterns of decision - making that lead to a greater acceptance of the church's mission in society.

What we are dealing with here is not a future group of Muslim - Americans who pop down to the local store and for all intents and purposes are indistinguishable from the rest.

When a group convenes on the first evening, it is made up of twenty men and a few women who are usually strangers to each other; who come from different parts of the country or even of the world; who represent the doctrine and tradition of from eight to twelve different churches, Protestant and Catholic; and who are engaged in different kinds of ministries — education, local church, seminary leaders, denominational executives, and others.

So long as deregulation is in effect, local public interest groups who have difficulty getting stations to meet their demands for reasonable reform should consider petitioning the FCC to deny the license of the station.

The meeting was interrupted by clergy from a local black Baptist alliance, who were angered by my claim that black churches, along with many other groups, were having trouble writing effective grant proposals or administering and evaluating social programs.

Who then has the right to make the decisions: the individuals as such; local groups; or the church, which represents the corporate experience both of interpreting and of applying the biblical directions?

Dean of St Edmundsbury, the Very Revd Dr Frances Ward in Suffolk has been joined by support groups and local politicians who have all called on David Ruffley MP to step down from his seat in Bury St Edmunds.

A summary of a sermon preached in a local church, and a transcribed discussion of a group of church members (three adults and three high school students) who gathered to discuss the service and the sermon immediately afterward.

A decade later, a study of Episcopal churches by Wade Clark Roof showed that church people tend to be divided into two groups: the «locals» who prefer to live in small communities, get their satisfaction from relating closely to families and to friends, and belong to local groups; and the «cosmopolitans» who prefer living in large cities, get their satisfaction from dealing with ideas and international issues, and belong to large state or nationwide organizations.

Last year, I went to a local conference and talked for three hours with three men who are part of the Stegall / Rokser group.

Such consultation may occur at many levels: consultation to pastors concerning problem clients with whom they are working; consultation to a pastor and the church administration regarding human relation problems in the congregation; consultation to groups or programs in a congregation that are designed to assist people in the church; consultation to a local, regional, or denominational administration in regard to evaluation of religious candidates, human relations problems in the administration, or denominational programming related to mental health issues; consultation to a group of churches who sponsor a joint community program.

Karen Gorham has encouraged people to donate to local groups which help heat the homes of people who are struggling financially.

For the most part, these seem to just be mega church pastors who put their sermon videos online for people to watch at home, and then they ask the people who watch them to tithe to their church and get involved in a local small group.

The group formed out of what was originally Banks (Barbados) Breweries Limited founded in 1959 as a venture between Peter A'guiar (who had earlier started Banks Guyana) and local investors.

Next, research your local Vegan Meetup group, vegetarian society, or online forum to make new friends who share common interests.

In December, the group held a Christmas brunch attended by locals who can finally enjoy the once - private establishment.