Sentences with phrase «of church youth»

This question usually triggers among non-converts an uncomfortable silence broken by the phrase, «Well, I was born in a Christian family,» followed by an effort to locate a singular moment of conscious conversion some time during middle school, probably at the altar call of a church youth - group retreat.

Many families of church youth are still significantly traditional or modern.

I was even President of my church youth group and gave a sermon at an Easter Sunrise Service.

Not exact matches

I couldn't help comparing this church with the rollicking, regular church experiences of my youth.

This would be for the whole spectrum of endeavors, including any work with charities, youth sports, church activities or fun runs.

Most of the people I work with are aware of it, and some the stuff I do on the side is because of it, like youth ministry and working as part of the teaching team at our church.

shall we stone the youth who back talk their parents and cut off the hands of those that steal (laviticus) the church is losing site of the teachings of jesus and the foundation on which it was built!

A former church youth worker and trainee vicar faces jail after being found guilty of three counts of... More

I don't know what a youth minister is, but unless they are all part of the same church, I doubt what you are saying is true.

A jury is expected to deliver its verdict in the trial of a former church youth leader accused of raping... More

However this has not even got close to the number of youth workers employed by the church, which is estimated to exceed 7,000.

Only half of the churches in the UK have any form of children's or youth ministry!

- Pope to Mass of millions: Get out of church — What we learned about Pope Francis in Brazil — Massive crowd attends prayer service with pope — Why millennials are leaving the church — Pope Francis tells youth that faith cures discontent — «Slum pope» visits Brazil's poor — X.XX Church pastor: Weiner is an addict, not a joke — Security raised to «high risk» for pope in Brazil — A nightmare day for the pope's security detail — Explosive found near sitchurch — What we learned about Pope Francis in Brazil — Massive crowd attends prayer service with pope — Why millennials are leaving the church — Pope Francis tells youth that faith cures discontent — «Slum pope» visits Brazil's poor — X.XX Church pastor: Weiner is an addict, not a joke — Security raised to «high risk» for pope in Brazil — A nightmare day for the pope's security detail — Explosive found near sitchurch — Pope Francis tells youth that faith cures discontent — «Slum pope» visits Brazil's poor — X.XX Church pastor: Weiner is an addict, not a joke — Security raised to «high risk» for pope in Brazil — A nightmare day for the pope's security detail — Explosive found near sitChurch pastor: Weiner is an addict, not a joke — Security raised to «high risk» for pope in Brazil — A nightmare day for the pope's security detail — Explosive found near site pope

He believed his chances for faith had been hurt by his father, the early loss of his mother, the air of unbelief in the Church of his youth, even the «terrible» liturgy and the modernized music (pitfalls he counted «inherent in Protestantism»).

Hybels also recalled that she's been accused of participating in a «massive effort in the heart of the evangelical church to lure its members — especially its youth — away from the pro-Israel position God commands to an uncritical and unbiblical support for Palestinians.»

I am saying this as a father of two boys, ages -18 and 20, and a youth leader in the Catholic Church.

The plan calls upon churches to, among other things, «adopt» street gangs and allow troubled youths to use church properties as safe havens; intercede for youth in the juvenile court system; provide vocational training to inner - city residents; organize capital for micro-enterprises; develop educational curricula heralding the achievements of blacks and Latinos; initiate neighborhood crime watch groups; and establish counseling programs for battered women and the men who abuse them.

But there can be specific Church forms of homophobia too: pressurising us to change our sexual orientation (although people who want to seek change in their orientation should be free to do so, and some find that their sexuality does change); saying that gay people will go to hell; not permitting us to work with youth or children (assuming gay people are more likely to be predatory or paedophiles); and holding us back from ministry roles.

I will not give specific school names but they are in the bible belt region in Alabama and Georgia and one of the youth I taught before God showed me that I needed to be in a different church she takes her bible to school anyway at the risk of getting in trouble

In our church there were 2 sisters in a youth group who were rallying the other members not to talk a girl because she wore the same jacket as one of them.

I was ordained by First Baptist Church in Reidsville, NC, the parish of my youth.

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.

Washington (CNN)-- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints said it was «satisfied» with the Boy Scouts of America's move to consider no longer denying membership to youth on the basis of sexual orientation.

The church of my youth majored in a miserly view of God's grace.

Ignoring the warnings of American bishops that American teenagers would not likely be very interested in listening to what the Church had to say, John Paul called down an outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the 800,000 youth who gathered with him in theMile High City, taking as his theme the words of Our Lord in John 10:10, «I came that they might have life.»

You suggest that «the fragmented spirituality of African American youth is not simply a symptom of adolescent development or choice, but may be a byproduct of the educational resources presented in African American churches.»

In this current generation of African American youth and young adults, we can't assume that their activism is going to have any connection to the church.

The fake raid occurred at Glad Tidings Assembly of God Church in Lower Swatara Township when four men - one carrying an unloaded but real gun - rushed into a room full of youth - group participants, put pillowcases over their heads and forced them into a van.

I've noticed that the arts have become another source of communal life and spiritual formation that I think churches and even youth groups have lost.

Adel Shukrallah, responsible for youth ministry in the Evangelical Church of Ismailia, is heading the Protestant relief effort locally.

CNN: Jeremy Lin emerges as emblem of burgeoning Asian - American Christianity Lin, who had been baptized into an evangelical Chinese church near San Francisco in ninth grade and had come to value Christian fellowship through his youth group, was part of the Harvard - Radcliffe Asian American Christian Fellowship group, regularly attending Bible study.

But here, too, there is little that is actually new, although there is detail that confirms what shrewder observers of Vatican life pieced together after the events of early 2013: that Benedict XVI's poorly - planned 2012 visit to Mexico and Cuba convinced him that he could no longer travel; that he believed the Pope must be present at World Youth Day 2013 in Brazil, a conviction that became the terminus ad quem driving the timing of the abdication and what immediately preceded it; and that, contrary to speculations that have become more lurid over time, Benedict's concern about his increasingly frailty, which fuelled his concern that he would be increasingly unable to give the Church what she deserved from a pope, was the sole motive behind his decision to renounce the Oice of Peter — not Vatileaks, not concerns about financial and other corruptions inside the Leonine Wall, not blackmail.

Back in 2014, Nathaniel Morales, a former youth leader at SGM's flagship Covenant Life Church in Maryland, was convicted on five counts of sexual abuse against three underage male victims between 1983 and 1991.

Each person in your church congregation and youth group has a set of weighing scales and places your invitation on one side of the scales: «We're going away together to a beautiful country location, with fantastic speakers for youth and adults.

When she's not writing creative non-fiction, short stories, and poetry, Erin spends her time working on her Masters of Arts in Urban Studies online through Eastern University, fighting for the last carrot in the house with her two rabbits, Bug and Sage, and enjoying mentoring time with local youth both in and out of church settings.

Mahaney resigned from The Gospel Coalition (TGC) last weekend in the wake of the criminal conviction of a former youth leader who abused three boys at SGM's flagship, Covenant Life Church (CLC), while Mahaney was lead pastor.

Confirmation should give youth an opportunity to confirm their developing faith, but perhaps more important, it should provide the church the opportunity to confirm the developing young Christian — to say, «You are one of us already.

Lindsay — who used to work for Lewisham Youth Offending Service and now leads Emmanuel Church New Cross — has been asked to speak, but he's tired of talk, he wants action.

Despite my earnest efforts to make sessions on the sacraments, church history, the Bible, ethics and beliefs interesting, the last thing on earth these youth wanted was to be put through two more hours of school every Thursday during Lent.

Recent studies suggest that most mainline Protestant churches have become the last stop for youth on their way out of church.

Other churches are fighting on different fronts: Beacon Church Brixton has seen many young men give their lives to Christ and come off the streets thanks to the passion of a teacher in their congregation; Ecclesia Church is partnering with an education charity to provide support for young people excluded from school; and Emmanuel Pentecostal church has organised successful youth events where Christian ex-offenders share their testimChurch Brixton has seen many young men give their lives to Christ and come off the streets thanks to the passion of a teacher in their congregation; Ecclesia Church is partnering with an education charity to provide support for young people excluded from school; and Emmanuel Pentecostal church has organised successful youth events where Christian ex-offenders share their testimChurch is partnering with an education charity to provide support for young people excluded from school; and Emmanuel Pentecostal church has organised successful youth events where Christian ex-offenders share their testimchurch has organised successful youth events where Christian ex-offenders share their testimonies.

At the same time, he refused to let the church off the hook for the part he accuses it of playing in tacitly condoning the bullying of LGBT youth.

Francis made the remark in the course of a free - wheeling, unscripted press conference at the end of his July 22 - 28 trip to Brazil for the Church's «World Youth Day.»

They have started tagging along for our church youth activities, and hanging at the house, and needing rides, and in the midst of this there is some sharing along the way about the stuff of their lives.

David Wilkerson (1931 - 2011) was founding pastor of Times Square Church in New York City and founder of Teen Challenge, an addiction recovery ministry for troubled youth.

I recently (within) the last year resigned from a vocational position (youth pastor) as I sensed God calling me to a new expression of «church».

By his own public statements and also through his role of helping to develop an alcoholism education emphasis for the youth and adults in his church school, the minister helps to plant the seeds of understanding of the nature and treatment of alcoholism.

Then, and only then, can it be a place of preparation for mission and a worthy shop window for the Church, providing a glimpse of the values of the kingdom of God, intensified and adorned with all the energy and enthusiasm of youth.

To do so would be to neglect the reality that her choice — whatever it becomes — impacts the lives of her family, her boyfriend Tom, Tom's family, her unborn child if she is pregnant, her schoolmates, her youth group at church and potentially many others whose lives intersect with hers.

So what are some of your favorite / funniest / most disturbing memories from church youth group?