Sentences with phrase «many city churches»

In Scotland, City Church, Aberdeen has grown so fast it now fills nine separate venues.

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.

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.

It must have seemed unlikely, in the 1970s, that his modest achievements in Krakow - a vast annual Corpus Christi procession through the city, the great new church at Nowa Huta, a network of social care established for unmarried mothers and others in need, youth gatherings up in the Tatra mountains and in overflowing city churches — would in due course overwhelm official Marxism by sheer force of joyful hope and moral uplift.

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.

On a Sunday morning in a certain city church, the Gospel lesson had been read and the minister was about to begin the sermon.

Members of Calvario City Church greeted arrivals from Puerto Rico as soon as they landed in the Orlando International Airport, where they served as bilingual volunteers.

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

Huffington Post: Louie Giglio, Atlanta Pastor Giving Benediction At Inauguration, Under Fire For Anti-Gay Sermon The Rev. Louie Giglio, the Atlanta pastor of Passion City Church who will deliver the benediction at President Barack Obama's inauguration, is under fire for anti-gay preaching and for calling Christians to respond to the gay - rights movement's «aggressive agenda.»

On Sunday, City Church pastor Judah Smith and his wife Chelsea addressed the events of Charlottesville during their Sunday morning services.

A large group of young adults from the City Church of San Diego said they were in town on a mission trip.

Listen to a city church member committed to supporting the rights of the poor:

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

Higgins, who is the director of worship and outreach at South City Church in St. Louis, issued a call to action, and at the very least, she sparked a much - needed discussion among evangelicals.

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.

Affirming an urban presence: As populations have shifted away from urban areas, many city churches have closed and the buildings have been turned into restaurants, houses, nightclubs or offices.

The building is the envy of the numerous congregations in the neighborhood, including two that have exchanged their denominational labels for more jazzy names and logos — one Southern Baptist (now River City Church) and one Evangelical Covenant (now City Church).

Large city churches in New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Chicago, and San Francisco had many of the great businessmen in their congregations.

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

«The police couldn't guarantee our safety,» said Gayle, who now copastors the Christian City Church (C3 Bali) with her husband in Denpasar, Bali's capital.

He relishes the region's multicultural mix and loves to surf when he can find the time in his busy schedule as pastor of New City Church in Coconut Creek.

When his father passed away in 2009, Smith took over leadership of The City Church, Seattle.

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

Eugene C. Roehlkepartain, a former assistant editor at the Century, is associate editor for Group Books and author of Youth Ministry in City Churches.

Gilpin, the senior pastor of Hope City Church, which has congregations in various cities across the Midlands and northern England, describes the experience in his book Sacred Cows Make Great BBQs (Authentic).

Christianity Today: New York City Churches Will No Longer Be Evicted from Public Schools — For Now More than 60 churches that faced possible eviction Sunday from New York City public schools should have more room to breathe.

In early 2009, Giglio planted Passion City Church in Atlanta.

Passion City Church held its first service February 15.

Joseph H. Fichter, Dynamics of a City Church (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1951); Peter Berger, The Noise of Solemn Assemblies: Christian Commitment and the Religious Establishment in America (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1961); Gibson Winter, The Suburban Captivity of the Churches.

Willard Augustus Pleuthner, More Power for Your Church: Proven Plans and Projects (New York: Farrar, Straus & Young, 1950); and see Murray Leiffer, The Effective City Church (New York: Abingdon Press, 1955), which preceded plans of the National Council of Churches to study «the effective city church.»

Two New York City churches that survived the destruction of World Trade Centre have become the latest tourist sites to embrace post-9 / 11 security measures.

New York City churches tread the line between community center and place of worship; they are a mixture of ESL classes in the basement, bi-vocational pastors, after - school programs and co-op gardens behind project buildings.

Most remain signless because New York City churches don't announce their presence with buildings and permanent signage.

If aesthetic enjoyment with spiritual lethargy is the peril of the wealthy city church, plainness with lack of spiritual passion is the pitfall of the poor rural church.

New York City churches tread the line between community center and place of worship; they are a mixture of ESL classes in the basement, bi-vocational pastors, after - school programs and co-op...

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.

Anyway, some of the city church councils were restructured, with very mixed results.

Passion is a worship collective that serves as the musical arm of the wildly popular Passion movement, a series of global conferences led by Atlanta's Passion City Church pastor Louie Giglio that brings together 20 - somethings and college students, united with the mission of «worship, prayer and justice for spiritual awakening in this generation.»

The rural ministry gradually became a stepping stone for young men on their way to more prosperous city churches or a final resting place for the man who had given his most vigorous years to urban centers.

So when the pastor of a city church called to say he was going back to the mission field and asked if we would consider leaving our current ministry to help this dying church, it wasn't real inviting.

Ministers of the better class are not satisfied to accept the rural churches; and yet these same ministers are not strong enough, or sufficiently prepared, to meet the demands of many city churches.

Tomlin is the worship pastor at Passion City Church in Atlanta.

The preaching of such beliefs caused controversy on the frontier and among the city churches.

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

At the city church communion was given in both kinds.

It's only in the past decade or so, and about the same time I moved to bigger city churches, that this other view started to come into favour.

In the city the church's presence as a universal community proclaims the Kingdom of God.

So on Sunday morning, in a great city church, folk are to be found who, amid the glorious architecture, stirring music and highly paid preaching of a metropolitan cathedral, are lonely — lonely, it may be, for a wooden meeting house on a country hillside, lighted by oil lamps, with an organ that squeaks every time the boy pumps it, and a man in the pulpit who can not preach for sour apples, but where they have friends.

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.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has joked during a speech at a predominantly black New York City church that Jews lack rhythm when dancing.