Sentences with phrase «number of church services»

A number of church services are taking place around the country where believers will be encouraged to pray on the first day of every month during 2015.

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Large group gatherings or worship services are the place where the largest number of people within a church are typically gathered in one place, and yet it's the least relational experience and environment in a church.

Why aren't you in church, having dinner with your families, reading the bible, out for a walk, getting together with friends, visiting the shut - ins who aren't able to attend services, or any number of other activities?

Serving humanity is considered a main purpose of the Christian community, and a number of excellent service enterprises find their source in the new energy that this progressive church has tapped.

To cite a present - day example: Many people were not at all surprised at the report (in January, 1968; whether the report was correct I do not know) that so noted a theologian as Helmut Thielicke had called on a number of officer - candidates to prevent leftist students from disrupting the worship service at a Hamburg church by their demonstrations.

What surprised me on this trip was that at every single event, one or two people would pull me aside and ask how I kept from getting discouraged by those big numbers that Mark Driscoll, and pastors like him, are always bragging about — the 10 million downloads, the enormous church planting network, the packed - out services, the hundreds of thousands of blog visitors.

Not only must laypeople finance their own education, but their service to the church is often questioned and challenged, despite the dramatic decline in numbers of men entering the Catholic priesthood.

Further it was noted that the clergy and the churches were in a position to uniquely provide a number of major services relevant to both the care of the mentally ill and the promotion of mental health.

Number 2 not going to church can be harmful to you not to them this is the problem with many Christians claiming they can serve God at home rather than going to the house of God it's not a social service you are doing when you go to Church you don't go for hypocrites they are not Christians they are wolves in sheep clothing your example of worship is always nchurch can be harmful to you not to them this is the problem with many Christians claiming they can serve God at home rather than going to the house of God it's not a social service you are doing when you go to Church you don't go for hypocrites they are not Christians they are wolves in sheep clothing your example of worship is always nChurch you don't go for hypocrites they are not Christians they are wolves in sheep clothing your example of worship is always needed.

My school had an unusually high number of such educated teachers, winding down from their wartime careers in the army, the Church, or the colonial service, and many of their pupils were drawn to them.

The Salvation Army's director for community services, Tony Daniels said: «Staff and volunteers at our churches and social centres across the UK have seen growing numbers of individuals and families on low incomes who are struggling to put food on the table or keep a roof over their heads.

Although conversion results are unknown — only Christians who convert to Islam are news items — foreign church funds do sustain the social service projects for the refugees, whether Muslim Afghans or the smaller numbers of» Iraqi and Iranian Christian refugees.

Even our most successful churches such as Holy Trinity Brompton (HTB), with more than 3,000 in weekly attendance, can only accommodate such numbers by holding multiple services across multiple venues in the centre of London.

Jack Marcum, head of research services for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), sees «little evidence of a literal shortage of ministers... We are training more than sufficient numbers of ministers of word and sacrament in the PCUSA to pastor mid-sized and larger congregations and fill other traditional ministries.»

A quarter of adults who attended religious services weekly in 2006 said they sometimes drank too much, a number that rose as church attendance decreased, according to the General Social Survey.

@prayer changes nothing: i know the church is praying that people don't wake up and stop giving them money... lol prayer doesn't work; number of people going to religious service is declining, so less money for their coffers.

The regional ministers are playing a larger part in the denomination's financial deliberations and as advisers in ministerial placement, and one of their number, James A. Moak of Kentucky, recently completed service as moderator of the church's General Assembly.

A number of memorial services are being held this week for the Bethel United Church of Jesus Christ founder to allow local parishioners, national congregants and the wider international Christian community to pay respect.

Not all of those who are interested in religion are interested in the Church, but some are; and since the war there has been a decided upturn in the number of those considering the ministry and other forms of Christian service.

The awesome number of local church services, showings of Luther films, pilgrimages and ecumenical programs; the array of displays in Europe and America; the lectureships and conferences — these all suggest some promise.

I think there are some pretty forceful biblical answers to a number of them, especially the one about the contents of the church service.

While I absolutely agree with the sentiment, religions continually bar any number of people from their churches and / or services for a wide variety of reasons.

A record number of people went to a Christmas service at a Church of England cathedral last year.

When we returned to the U.S. after this term of service, I could not sympathize with the church people who were quite concerned about the significant decrease in the number of UMC missionaries on the field.

The number comes from the group Church World Service in a new report from Reuters looking at the rise of the «religious left» since the most recent presidential election.

Those regularly attending a Sunday service in the Church of England dipped below three quarters of a million last year, despite a commitment from the General Synod to address the falling numbers.

The number of people listening to Premier's Christian radio stations outnumbers the number of people in the UK attending Church of England services.

Despite this, the number of people identifying as Anglican has long been in decline, as has the number of people who attend Church of England services every week.

The latest Statistics for Mission has revealed that the long - term pattern of decline in Church attendance has continued, except amongst school services, where numbers show an increase.

The number of institutions that potentially forge links in this chain — public, private, and personal — is vast, spanning families, churches, scout troops, Little League, police departments, the armed services, and countless others.

We also like that Green Tooth services a number of industries, including restaurants, caterers, food processors, churches, schools, businesses, and even individuals too.

The Cherry Hills Community Church takes this to heart, offering a number of supportive services to assist families who are undergoing a transitional phase.