Sentences with phrase «neighbors living in our community»

They are not «people over there living in darkness,» but they are our neighbors living in our community.

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In a world where our lives are now confined behind a screen and interaction with our neighbors seems to have become more irregular, we need to look at how companies like Amazon and other online services have impacted our communities.

These inner - city workers understand the «victim mentality» and «entitlement mind - set» they encounter in the devastated communities where they live, but they do not let such attitudes go unchallenged, and they expect great things from their neighbors despite those neighbors» disadvantaged circumstances.

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.

For our purposes, the most satisfactory definition would be: Christianity is the total life of the community of men and women who respond to what they know about God — along with their neighbors, who are caught up into the social movement or process we call «the church» (however this may be understood)-- in terms of the socially remembered event of Jesus Christ.

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).

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.

So, putting it all together, the neighbor is not just anyone living next door or in your community.

For us, we gather to discuss Scripture, to encourage each other, to hear each others stories of where we saw Jesus working, to work alongside each other as we serve the community in Jesus» name Then we each depart to follow Jesus in our everyday day lives, to find opportunities daily to love our neighbors.

Honestly, their are enough whites that can live well and happy in a mixed community and can be loving neighbors with families of different ethnic and racial backgrounds.

The Christians of Thessalonika are to observe decent self - control in sexual relations, to respect the rights of others, to do their best to love their neighbors, and to be honest and industrious so as to maintain a reasonable standard of living without having to keep appealing for charity (like some Christian communities which Paul knew too well).

Many of the people I love most in my life fall into this «camp,» and most of them mean it when they say that they sincerely love their friends and relatives in the LGBT community and wish they knew of some way to hold to their convictions without hurting or insulting their neighbors.

And as a committed African - American Pentecostal, I never thought I could become such dear friends with so many in the faith community - Christians and Muslims, Hindus and Jews, conservatives and liberals, Republicans and Democrats - who care first about God, and second about their neighbors, and seek to live this care out into the world.

Ben Stevens shares how to make the leap from living in seclusion to engaging in community with your neighbors.

Man will find the fulfillment of his life, and participation in true community, when his only object of worship is God, and when he and his fellows hold in mutual inviolable respect the totality of the neighbors» life.31

People like Jane Jacobs assumed that packing people together created a livelier community life and that the more spacious suburbs were necessarily alienating, but in the suburbs you have the space to be a family, which is also the space to be neighbors and active members of the community.

Rather, «the course of study is a course of constant conversation with members of a wide circle of men who live in community with God and with neighbors - before - God».

To reject exclusivism and to accept plurality, to be committed to one's faith and to be open to the faith - commitments of our neighbors, to choose to live in a global «community - of - communities», sharing the ambiguities of history and the mystery of life — these are the imperatives of our age.

These universal tenets include teachings about love of neighbor; compassion and charity; the central importance of justice and reconciliation; and the obligation to live in a way that benefits the greater human community.

It should be borne in mind, in the second place, that there continued to exist within the Islamic Society churches, monasteries, synagogues, and temples serving Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, and others; that all these survived, not as ghost communities or depressed classes, but as communities of living men and women who pursued their callings, professed their faith openly, and entered into polemics in defense of it; who continued to develop their religious, philosophical, and scientific legacies; and who were at all times in communication with their Muslim neighbors.

It has become increasingly evident to thinking Christians that the future of christianity can not be separated from the future of other religions, that the well - being of the Christian church is closely bound with the well - being of the larger community around it, and that Christians and their neighbors are fellow pilgrims on earth in search of the meaning of life the and the fulfillment of it.

Following Jesus into freedom will look different in different situations, with different people, who live in different cultures, all of whom have different gifts, desires, strengths, abilities, and who seek to love and serve different neighbors and people in different communities.

I live in Florida in a retirement community and neighbors all around me have citrus trees.

By the teen years, they will be shoveling the neighbor's walk, building the neighbor a lawn border, sorting food at the food bank, picking up garbage on the river bank, and volunteering in the community for no other reward than the good feeling of making the world a better place to live.

Board Members are your neighbors — people who live, work, own a business, or have some other significant interest in the Community District.

«I am running to serve in the 27th Assembly District to continue the work that defined Mike Simanowitz's public service: strong advocacy on the issues that matter to all our neighbors, dedicated constituent services, and a commitment to making our community a better place to live,» Rosenthal, who called Simanowitz his mentor, said in a statement.

In his role as a leader of the Syracuse Gang Violence Task Force, John brought prosecutors, police, clergy, community leaders, and neighbors from differing backgrounds together to successfully reduce violence crime and improve the quality of life in targeted neighborhoods within our communitIn his role as a leader of the Syracuse Gang Violence Task Force, John brought prosecutors, police, clergy, community leaders, and neighbors from differing backgrounds together to successfully reduce violence crime and improve the quality of life in targeted neighborhoods within our communitin targeted neighborhoods within our community.

It will rip families apart, sow havoc in our communities and force innocent people — our neighbors, our friends, and our relatives — to live in fear.

BRONX, NY — State Senator Jeff Klein (D - Bronx / Westchester), joined by Congressman Eliot Engel (D - Bronx / Westchester), Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz (D - Bronx), Councilman Andrew Cohen (D - Bronx), Esther Nelson, and a bevy of local community members, friends and neighbors, celebrated and honored the life of legendary Bronxite Bess Myerson at the Sholem Aleichem Houses in Kingsbridge on Sunday, April 19th.

«We want our children to be good neighbors in their communities, make their communities a better place to live and aid in providing more worthwhile services while maximizing limited resources,» Picente said.

We are the individuals who live in the districts, who have raised families in our districts, and who are in constant contact with friends, neighbors and families in our home communities.

Rockland County is fortunate to be an insulated community that does not experience the all too frequent incidences of criminality our neighbors in New York City encounter, nor the tragic loss of life in the staggering statistics registered around the country in other larger communities.

I look forward to continuing my work with the LGBTQ community and having the support of the Lesbian & Gay Democratic Club of Queens as we work together to improve the lives of our friends and neighbors in Queens.»

At face value KHNH does indeed have a fairly rote Hindi film set - up with three central players: Naina Catherine Kapur (Preity Zinta), a sullen twentysomething whose life and household has been in disarray since a devastating family tragedy; her best friend Rohit Patel (Saif Ali Khan), would - be slick ladies» man but all - around good guy; and Aman Mathur (Shahrukh Khan), Naina's freshly - arrived neighbor, whose upbeat and generous nature will come to affect the lives of all he encounters in his new community, not least of which Rohit and especially Naina.

Our school communities - from staff to families to neighbors to outside services - need proper resources and supports in order to best address traumatic stressors in children's lives.

As a start - up public charter school sponsored by the SC Public Charter School District, LLCS will serve school - aged children living in rural West Ashley, surrounding communities, and neighboring counties, and as such, have a potential student body reflective of the demographic character of the region thus bringing back the neighborhood school concept.

«I think it is very difficult for a person who lives in a community to know whether, in fact, his educational system is what it should be, whether if you compare his community to a neighboring community they are doing everything they should be, whether the people that are operating the educational system in a state or local community are as good as they should be.

This means meeting and eating together, being introduced to the elders and neighbors of a community, listening to the stories, playing with the kids, and understanding the world through the lived experience of those in the community.

MOP trains volunteer community leaders, through a membership base of congregations and schools, to re-weave the web of relationships in community so that they can effectively work together across race, class and language barriers to rediscover a common good leading to a higher quality of life for our families, children and neighbors.

Part 150 also established a voluntary program for airports, which provides a structured approach for airport operators, airlines, pilots, neighboring communities, and the FAA to work together to reduce the number of people who live in significantly noise - impacted areas.

Darling and her friends live in a shantytown aptly called Paradise, and it may as well be a different country from the affluent neighboring affluent community of Budapest.

The family was then separated, and Malcolm lived with neighbors in the community.

Two neighboring families live in a North Dakota community in which many of the Ojibwe are related, memories are long, and the wounds of the war against Native Americans run deep: «Loss, dislocation, disease, addiction, and just feeling like the tattered remnants of a people with a complex history.»

BRING your friends, neighbors, coworkers, family members - the tribe in your life - it's a special evening - the writing and authoring community has the opportunity to schmooze with publishing providers and fellow authors.

Living in the world when the global community is proud to announce the protection of humans rights equally for all, most of the people are blind to the open discrimination occurring in neighboring countries.

Purchasing a home is a lifestyle choice that requires you to think about how you like to spend your time and the type of community where you want to live — such as a rural area without nearby neighbors, a high - rise building in a city or a home within a planned community with recreational amenities.

You'll find yourself living in a diverse community where everyone respects everyone else and your peaceful life is accented by great neighbors.

When you live in a close - knit, planned community, you want to know that if your neighbor causes you to suffer a loss, they'll be able to take care of it.

Operation Catnip is committed to saving and improving the lives of community cats, and making it possible for all cats to live in harmony with their neighbors.

Even so, cats living in our communities sometimes cause disputes between neighbors.