Sentences with phrase «of smaller community groups»

This may involve a complete reversal of the popular mindset in today's churches that the Sunday morning service is the most important church event of the week, and the midweek gatherings of smaller community groups are secondary.

Production is characterised by small pockets of basic volume product, thousands of small community groups and artisans, and a growing number of pioneering sustainable production units and initiatives.

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In San Francisco, the bank's community - development partners will include Working Solutions, ICA Fund Good Jobs and Pacific Community Ventures — groups that specialize in helping very small, mid-sized and larger businesses, respectively, says Peter Scher, JPMorgan Chase's global head of corporate responcommunity - development partners will include Working Solutions, ICA Fund Good Jobs and Pacific Community Ventures — groups that specialize in helping very small, mid-sized and larger businesses, respectively, says Peter Scher, JPMorgan Chase's global head of corporate responCommunity Ventures — groups that specialize in helping very small, mid-sized and larger businesses, respectively, says Peter Scher, JPMorgan Chase's global head of corporate responsibility.

Produced in partnership with Entrepreneur Media, the two - day HackON invited local small companies to submit their biggest business challenge and let a group of area business and community members help find (or «hack») a feasible solution.

The project's main opponent, the local environmental group Douglas Channel Watch, maintains the risk from either a tanker accident or a pipeline breach is too high for the small number of jobs the pipeline would bring to the community.

The biggest downsides if we're a small group: we'd be subject to detrimental community ratings, and maximum deductible and out - of - pocket limits would drive up costs across the board.

One day last February, a small group of real estate agents and reporters boarded a helicopter in Vancouver and flew south to the burgeoning community of White Rock.

The Community Financial Services Association of America — an industry group for payday and small - dollar lenders — called the proposed rule a «staggering blow» that will cut off consumers» access to credit.

Most community groups never get beyond small local actions and, even when a spark catches fire, as in the case of the Occupy movement, it often seems to fizzle out almost as fast.

It also maintains information on how community and business groups can partner with the SBCS to further understanding of the unique small business sector.

Most of the platform fees go to the pockets of a small group of wealthy owners instead of flowing back into the local communities.

In an ultimate story of small business savvy enacting huge community change, a group of female elders from the Wirlu - murra Aboriginal community in Roebourne have translated a market stall selling local artwork into joint venture mining contracts worth over $ 100 million.

«GetHashing was born as an idea by a small group of crypto enthusiasts with a passion for Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and the technologies to build a new and unique community - driven platform that's entirely cloud - based and built on top of the blockchain protocol.»

I would like to acknowledge what is a long list: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Small Business Administration (SBA), the Office of the New York Attorney General, the New York State Department of Financial Services, the New York Legal Assistance Group, Staten Island Legal Services, the Legal Aid Society, MFY Legal Services, various bar associations, New York City Department of Small Business Services, Center for New York City Neighborhoods, Neighborhood Housing Services of Staten Island and the Northfield Local Community Development Corporation.

Ultimately, a project that had been designed to benefit a specific group of small businesses in the West Bank came full circle to return benefits to the local financial community.

CWB Group's 2014 Public Accountability Statement provides a detailed account of some of Canadian Western Bank's (CWB) activities related to community investment, small business financing, number of employees and taxes paid in its most recent fiscal year (November 1, 2013 to October 31, 2014).

The Tether team wants to update the community on several items: first, to share exciting news about the future of Tether; and, second, to address misinformation that a small group of individuals has been spreading on various online forums about Tether and exchanges that are integrated with Tether.

Making and marking history in low - income community struggle at the edge of Metro Vancouver On May 2nd 2017 a small group of homeless people and supporters marched from Maple Ridge's soon - to - close Rain City

It also takes advantage of a hybrid proof - of - work and proof - of - stake mining system so that a small group can not take control of the flow of transactions or changes made to it, without the community's consent.

Water Power Group is a community - based developer of small hydro power projects in Ontario that use low - impact, fish - friendly turbines.

About Water Power Group Water Power Group (www.waterpowergroup.com) is an Ontario - based private power producer working through joint ventures or cooperatives with local communities and First Nations to develop small, run - of - the river hydroelectric generators.

Spurred by the industrial revolution, a small group of entrepreneurs saw the need to distribute clean, abundant water supplies to local communities.

Declaring to be accessible to a small group of people with just a few free places leftover, it has resulted in quite an excitement in the online binary community.

As an example, small groups are the result of someone looking around and feeling like there is a lack of community happening between people.

I believe small groups are the vehicle, not the destination, of biblical community.

I am so tired of the gay community (which is a very, very small group people) trying to impose their logic on everyone.

In many cases, it's appropriate to mark a person's departure in a «state of the church» community meeting, congregational prayer time, or a small group setting.

A small group of California churches has pledged to stop calling the police for help in emergencies, saying they'll utilize a «more community - based» crime fighting system.

I know that most people in my worshiping community have never heard of these folks — they're too busy housing homeless folks, working with the Interfaith Food Shuttle, and practicing the Prayer of Examen in our small groups.

The experience of the last five years and a decade of experimenting with small groups before that have convinced me that growth groups are on the cutting edge in counseling, education, and community - building.

For Christians exile has been not only a condition forced upon a small group of people but a state into which everyone was called by God for their human maturation — a place of formation, where attitudes and motivations were molded by a community without earthly roots.

A small group of Coptic Christians gathering near the U.S. Embassy in Cairo on Sunday called for international protection of Egypt's Christian community and condemned the government for not doing more to protect them.

The Christian community began as a small group expecting the end of history, and enjoying a certain indifference to the secular orders.

I know many small groups in churches work hard to create communities of intimacy, connection, and safety.

For she may recognize small groups of Christians which develop independently of the territorial principle as Christian communities with the same institutional stability and rights that have so far been accorded only to the parishes.

Twice each year, I take two bus - loads of high school students on retreats at which they worship, walk labyrinths, talk in small groups with adults who care about them, and «hang out» in Christian community.

Communities are governed by a small group of «qualified» individuals who discuss reasonably what a healthy spiritual community should look like.

While many quickly growing churches deal with growth by starting new ministries to handle the influx of new members, Warehouse 242 leaders decided to focus on doing three things well: small groups, the Sunday worship service and community outreach.

From a small group of Monks at Taizé the influence upon the Christian community has been immense, both on Catholics and Protestants.

The other day, at a small group I attended, someone expressed concern for me because there is a lot of stuff going on in our community right now: illnesses, the threat of death, marriages in serious trouble, depression... the kind of things that take time to deal with.

Celebration and service can be planned and structured as the needs of the community dictate, both in small congregational groupings and in larger, parishwide events.

The Rev. Joseph W. Knowles describes the goals of the Renewal Center Mission as (1) developing the Life Renewal Center through small «groups,» (2) giving attention to the use of present structures to focus the whole life of the church as a healing community, (3) developing a program of supervised clinical pastoral education for theological students, and (4) maintaining a Residential Center halfway house for twenty men and women who have been previously hospitalized for mental illness.

I discovered this lack of community when I taught in a fine small suburban liberal - arts college; my otherwise delightful, intelligent students were almost illiterate in group experience.

A small group of returned exiles organizes itself as a partly autonomous community under the suzerainty of the imperial government.

Robert C. Leslie identifies these salient points at which small groups played a vital role in church history: Christ and his disciples, the Apostolic church, Montanism, monasticism, the Waldenses, the Franciscans, the Friends of God, the Brethren of the Common Life, German pietism, the Anabaptists, the Society of Friends, the Wesleyan revival, the Great Awakening, the Iona Community, the Emmanuel Movement, and the Oxford Group Movement (from which came Alcoholics Anonymous).

We were immediately invited to join a small group, and soon met most of the people in the community.

New churches, schools and Catholic institutions were constantly being opened, and the Catholic community was a vibrant one, the small nucleus of «Old Catholics» having been augmented by Anglican converts and Irish emigrants — from which groups came Francis Bourne's own family.

The institute describes the extensive program of enfoldment for those who do respond and join the Garden Grove Community Church: lay training for ministry, small - group work, pastoral care, involvement in mission, education.

Auguste Comte would later draw parallels between the early communal groups of Christians and the small communities of intellectual elites, in solidarity with the emergent bourgeoisie, making scientific breakthroughs in the 17th and 18th centuries.

The operation of such a ruling group is pictured in the story of Boaz» negotiations for the redemption of Naomi's property (Ruth 4:1 - 12); the narrative is presumably from a comparatively late time, but the councils of elders persisted in the smaller communities right through Old Testament history, so there is ground for believing that the author relates practice with which he was familiar.