Sentences with phrase «needy communities»

Holt (D - Hopewell Township) toured classrooms and the playground at the Millhill Child and Family Development Center on Oakland Street, which is part of New Jersey's Abbott preschool program for needy communities.

Or if you'd just like to support the movement, money donated to this non-profit helps build libraries in needy communities and developing countries.

Library media specialist says the first lady should have given them to needy communities and that the books were a cliche.

Moreover, it can lead to unintended consequences such as shutting schools that are actually benefitting students (as measured by growth), discouraging new - school startups in needy communities (if social entrepreneurs believe that «failure» is inevitable), or thwarting the replication of high - performing urban schools.

She found out about Heifer International, an organization that provides livestock to needy communities, and organized a read - a-thon with her students to raise money.

Simply pouring money into water infrastructure or sending bushels of food to needy communities on an ad hoc basis won't be enough, the report cautions.

He urged helping the poor and other needy communities instead, while giving freely without expecting anything in return.

Christian leadership has always been a tricky course to navigate, lined with broken people and needy communities.

It appears that the PCs are both understating the condition of disrepair of hospitals and in some cases, using their power to move projects up the priority list in order to benefit the political interests of PC caucus members at the expense of the health of those living in more needy communities» said Notley In a written response to a request from NDP Leader Rachel Notley, the Auditor General has committed to an audit of the government's capital planning process.

Less appreciated, associates say, is how he would encourage banks and other financial companies to serve lower - and middle - income workers by more tightly regulating fees and by ensuring that banks are lending to needy communities and deserving borrowers.

Getting hospitals up and running will certainly save lives, as will delivering food to the neediest communities and getting communications and power infrastructure back up and running.

As a Member of the House Appropriations Committee, I am committed to fighting for these essential programs to ensure our neediest communities have the resources they need,» said Congresswoman Grace Meng (D - Flushing).

I look forward to working collaboratively to develop programs and produce a budget that addresses the concerns of the neediest communities.»

«This is an extraordinarily needy community.

Lost Kisses (I baci mai dati) / Italy (Director: Roberta Torre; Screenwriters: Roberta Torre and Laura Nuccilli)-- A 13 - year - old girl in the deprived outskirts of a sprawling Sicilian city becomes a local celebrity to her needy community when word spreads that she just might be able to perform miracles.

Missouri should not have a system that puts our neediest communities at a disadvantage when it comes to recruiting talented teachers and states should not impose a tariff on attracting quality teachers and school leaders.

It is true that upper income communities benefit significantly from SALT, but it is also true that states with even vaguely progressive school funding systems depend upon those communities being able to foot their own school bills so that state aid can get to needier communities.

Join our campaign today and help keep NYC's neediest community cats safe and warm this winter.

Website: www.sagebrush.cc Facebook.com/sagebrush.bl Other Groups The Lions Club of San Pedro relies on income from its Friday and Saturday Night BBQ to support the needy community.

Not exact matches

What a difference from the traditional state of affairs that most growing businesses have been forced to deal with: no money at all for start - ups or companies that were too small or too old or too dependent on their founders or even too needy for cash (that is, unless they happened to fit onto the investment community's shortlist of sexy companies du jour).

You are doing better but learn more about leadership principles and how parishes are composed and ran by many people to meet the needs of the members but also the needy with in the community.

The resolution offered in all three passages is also remarkably similar: God recruits the prophet to plead on behalf of the poor and needy; Timothy recruits the community for a vocation of holiness; and the crafty worker fiddles with the books to recruit sympathy for himself.

In general, within these communities people were not judged unjustly, partiality was not shown to the wicked, justice was given to the weak and the orphan, the right of the lowly and destitute was maintained, and the weak and the needy were rescued and delivered from the hand of the wicked..

Do a 40 - day purge of all your excess stuff and donate the best of it to Goodwill or a local thrift store that benefits the needy in your community.

If you think needy people do not exist in your community, your probably are not looking hard enough.

In this way, we would be giving to our community as well as to the needy around the world.

As it turns out, very little of the 51 % of the church budget for «missions» goes toward serving the poor and helping the needy in the community.

When Christians in the New Testament are exhorted to give (and this is true of the Israel with their tithe as well), it is primarily for the purpose of supporting the poor and needy in the community, both locally and around the world.

One of them helped the poor, hungry, and needy in our community in a tangible way.

In ancient Hebrew culture, the Mosaic Law instructed the Israelites that one way to provide for the poor and needy in their community during harvest time was to leave the corners of their field unharvested.

At the church I'm currently attend they give money to a community ministry so they funnel all the needy towards them so as to not get their hands dirty.

The Church has taken up Jesus» call to take care of the poor and the needy around the world and in our own communities.

Because needy children deserve support no matter who raises them, the state, the business community and the law should support them wherever they are located — whether with single, married, divorced, cohabiting, same - sex or foster parents.

This step is not for everyone, but I think it is becoming more and more important for people today if they want to see Jesus at work among those in our communities who are truly needy.

If there is among you anyone in need, a member of your community in any of your towns within the land that the Lord your God is giving you, do not be hard - hearted or tight - fisted toward your needy neighbor.

There are charities, hospitals, and community services that help the needy.

When those communities do make it onto radar screens, we often blame the needy for their own problems.

Labby said Tchividjian's job will be to develop further the church's «mercy ministries» in care for homeless, hungry, and needy people in the community.

It is a spirit that seeks out the poorest and most needy people in the community, and assesses projects by the degree to which each will benefit them.

No Christian is going to be good at counseling and visitation and preaching and teaching and administration and serving the needy and working with youth and working with the elderly and evangelizing the lost and doing community outreach and being a prayer warrior and on and on.

Grant, the posts Jeremy and I wrote that talk about loving our neighbors, being the church in the community, and loving and helping the poor, homeless and needy are very much about how to live in community with our brothers and sisters in the Lord, as well as almost everyone in our community.

There is a world of difference between a private devotional gesture, the action of the specially pious, and the prophetic witness of the whole community — the matter - of - fact witness, repeated week by week, that to be Christian is to stand among the needy.

But this tithe was only once every three years, and it was also to be distributed to the poor and needy in the community.

Tragically, only the small remaining percentage (18 %) of that $ 50 Billion annual revenue is left to help the millions of truly needy Christian brothers and sisters, or the church's commanded mission to spread the gospel of Christ in the local community and beyond.

AmpleHarvest.org is helping to take the work of feeding needy American families out of Washington and move it into the community... where much of the food is already available... and free.

1) Charities spend their income on necessities, such as food and utilities, which ever - so - slightly re-orients our economy toward recession - resistant products, rather than luxuries 2) Charities spend their money quickly, but on independent schedules, making for a smoother stimulus effect on the economy 3) Charities make purchases tax - free, meaning that $ 1 spent by a charity generates a full $ 1 of private economic activity; furthermore, much of those tax revenues are recovered as income tax on the grocery stores, utility companies, etc. that might not have received that income otherwise 4) Charitable giving is by far the most democratic way to improve society; from birth control to bombers, government assuredly spends money on something you don't like, and charitable giving restores your say - so 5) Charitable donations are tax deductible, meaning you keep those tax dollars in your local community 6) Charitable donations provide the funds necessary for volunteers to serve the needy, thus giving «the average citizen» a chance to meet and interact with the needy, breaking down stereotypes

And I just stumbled across this again yesterday: Ezekiel 16:49 says that the sin of Sodom was eating too much food and spending too much time in leisure while ignoring the poor and needy in the community....

One protection against some common misunderstandings is to keep clear this fact that the minister has his vocation only in dependence upon the whole community of faithful and needy people.

I am convinced the only reason the government got into «social justice» in the first place is because the church has been neglecting its responsibility to take care of the needy in our community as Jesus called us to do.

Helping the needy in our community is the job of the church; not the state.