Sentences with phrase «out of communities through»

[7] Justice reinvestment acknowledges what Indigenous communities have known for a long time — taking people out of communities through imprisonment weakens the entire community.

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«He made it crystal - clear to me through his representative that he would carry out his public duty as a citizen and resident of this community,» the Tribune reported Evans as saying.

They're doing it through dozens of workshops held in community centers, libraries, YMCA's, and municipal buildings, where anywhere from 40 to 60 women (and sometimes a few men) work their way through a two - hour curriculum that teaches them how to figure out how much they should be paid, how to make their case to an employer, and how to gracefully exit a negotiation that might not be going well.

Once Katrina happened, first off a lot of people left, but then you had a lot of people come down and do community service projects, help rebuild, and a lot of them were young people right out of college through things like AmeriCorps or Habitat for Humanity, etc..

Companies have long pushed to get their employees out of the office and into their local communities, through the power of volunteering across America.

It was actually faster to take out a home - equity loan from her community bank, which she used to purchase an adjacent building to expand her business, than it was to go through the extended process of getting a commercial loan.

The law, known as Senate Bill 4, is slated to take effect Sept. 1, but has been challenged in court by rights organizations and localities that say the law infringes on local governments» constitutional rights, and will sow fear through immigrant communities by dissuading people from reporting crimes or testifying as witnesses out of fear they will be deported.

In addition, when we garden with others, and when we further enhance this activity through developing a community garden or donating some of our bounty to a food bank, we feel a sense of belonging; we bond with our peers — which in turn can lead to supportive, collaborative, and nourishing relationships, both personal and professional; and we tap into a sense of meaning and purpose in life, by helping out those in need.

President Barack Obama has not ruled out air strikes but he and top military leaders have said the crisis in Iraq can only be resolved through a settlement with leaders of the country's Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish communities.

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Through this latest investment, we hope to demonstrate to others the value and importance of seeking out better, more viable ways of achieving our business aims, all for the greater good of our communities.»

I see a robust economy in most industry sectors ready to go at the starting gate with a Donald Trump presidency, with this man at the helm who knows how to leverage trade deals internationally and bring a ROI on our US based assets, with growth opportunities through tax incentives, vis a vis, a community organizer and his successor who have constantly sucked the life out of their American Host.....

Whether it is through study and work experiences abroad, learning more about Asia in the classroom, or even engaging with newcomers in our local communities, our government needs to help us be more proactive in stepping out of our comfort zones.

Alaethea's favorite part about working at Common Desk is getting to meet so many different people day - in and day - out, and she strives to make sure every single person that walks through the doors feels connected and part of Common Desk's growing community.

There's a beautiful world of hurting crazy out there and our brave kids are in the centre of it, and our people are the bloodied wounded because of it, and our dreams and our hopes and our futures and our communities and our countries are hanging in the balance through it, and there is a war in the heavenlies and the man laying beside me is believing that if our lives aren't up in the air where the battle is, our lives on the ground fail.

In fact he was the type who couldn't even make it through a community college government class, but nonetheless he was one who was motivated to look out for the rest of us.

Out of a vast body of oral or written material, through long testing, a certain few selections are made, generally not by an official body so much as by the decision of the community itself as evidenced by degree of use or disuse, and these become the sacred canon.

But the truly astonishing thing about the Bible is that it also includes stories from outside the fold, where God seems determined to work through those whom the community of faith has cast out.

The truly astonishing thing about the Bible is that it includes stories from outside the fold, where God seems determined to work through those whom the community of faith has cast out.

Upon investigation, it turns out to be the history of a single community, or social group, through many stages of development.

He develops five characteristics of such a spirituality: conversion, with its requirement for solidarity; gratuitousness, as creating the atmosphere for efficacy; joy, which seeks victory over suffering by going through the school of martyrdom to Easter victory; spiritual childhood, which emphasizes being «with the poor and against poverty»; and community, which must emerge out of the dark night of injustice and solitude.

From the 1950s through the 1970s, the mental health care system underwent a massive deinstitutionalization, a well - intentioned plan designed to move people out of hospitals and into local communities.

The faith in God is supremely acted out in worship; and for a Christian loyal to the Christian community that worship is of «God the Father,» manifested in what through the Self - Expression (and for us supremely in the event of Jesus Christ) God has done, is doing, and will do in the creation, and given response through the working of the Holy Spirit, enabling the world and humans within it to say their Amen to God's initiating activity.

Out of the situation in which men and women had found Jesus to be their Master and Lord and Savior, God brought into existence the community in which (as John Knox has often said) «Jesus is remembered,» and not only remembered as a historical figure but also known through the influence he exerted and continues to exert in a fellowship that looks to him as its head.

At its heart, the movement that undergirds these written reflections arose out of the gatherings and shared reflections of the oppressed poor themselves, in groups called comunidades eclesiales de base — communities of the Christian wretched who met together to study scripture in light of their own impoverished situations and reflect on how each one informs the other (praxis).15 But our access to their groundbreaking work is through the printed page, and so I proceed with a full awareness that the persons under consideration here are as much reporters as originators.

Taylor points out that this preference for personal religion obscures something that has existed not only in almost all pre-modern cultures but, to varying degrees, still survives among contemporary Americans the conviction that «the locus of the relation with God is (also) through the community, and not simply in the individual.

Although our patterns of grief and consolation have not been worked out as they should be in our Western culture, I have received comfort from the Christian community, and I am indeed grateful to those who have sincerely tried to assist me in the very difficult task of dealing with the loss of a loved one through suicide.

Hearing that you've been through that kind of trouble and come out the other side gives me hope that our church community will continue to put division behind us and continue to grow in grace.

A great deal of good has come out of this community, but the community is unlikely to get the credit, as the church has accomplished more indirectly through its members» lives than directly.

Citing the Second Vatican Council, the pope said that since then, both communities have striven to continue along the path of knowledge and mutual esteem through dialogue that is carried out «in a spirit of honesty and integrity» with «love for the truth, with charity and with humility».

At the end of the day, the gospel doesn't really fit on a billboard or a Facebook status or an elevator pitch; it has to be experienced, in community, through the day - in - and - day - out work of following Jesus.

If a man says the church needs to reach out more to the community through acts of service, there is a good possibility that man has gifts of evangelism, service, and mercy.

I DREAM of a church where we meet to go out in the community and serve instead of sleeping through sermons and a church where living beings come before fancy lights and gossip is not the norm.

the letters of Paul in the NT speak of «you» over and over, not singular but plural «you»... Revelations speaks of the myriad of believers around the throne... all this to say that being a believer is not a «Lone Ranger» endeavor... I can sit under a tree and worship him and yes God speaks to me singularly through his word, but if I am to become more «patient, kind, gentle, faithful, loving, submissive» it is usually fulfilled by living out my life in a community of other people, ie.

Later, I went through a rather public breakup, and people within the church constantly asked me what happened — not out of care or concern, it felt, but out of a desire to know the details, to be able to better decide which side to take as our community severed.

The Community of the Resurrection sends its students through a university course at Leeds before bringing them for theology to the College attached to the mother house at Mirfield; while the Society of the Sacred Mission at Kelham, which in fact developed out of the educational work of its founder, Fr.

Improve the well - being of impoverished children and families in Martin County, KY through community outreach and hunger relief programs with the ultimate goal of empowering them to lift themselves out of poverty.

This program is in addition to the broad range of education and training opportunities we have rolled out in the communities we have sourced from in the past decade and through which we train thousands of farmers each year.

Through these nominations, the BCC seeks out the knowledge and expertise of the international culinary community to discover people with transformative initiatives in different parts of the world who may not enjoy broad public recognition.

I have learned also of the community that bubbles out of shared deprivation, and shared opportunity for creativity — through my own interactions over the years with other celiacs, and through your very own website.

Through the month of September and even far beyond we're building community to share information, tell our stories, confess our fears, admit our mistakes, and help each other work out the right safety decisions for our families.

Through this experience I have definitely become a little burnt out on certain aspects of craft, however my root feelings about the community still pushes me forward and excites me daily.

Through continuous advocacy, helping peer support networks, reaching out to mothers in communities and workplaces, supporting human milk banks and enforcement of the Milk Code, UNICEF helps promote a breastfeeding culture in the country.

Casa Central offers a network of services including Head Start education, out - of - school time support, interim housing, violence intervention and other valuable resources to vulnerable members of the community.Words on WheelsWords on Wheels volunteers to go places in their local communities to engage with at - risk babies through bubbles, puppets, music and stories.

The funds are out of the member initiatives program, administered through the Illinois Department of Commerce and Community Affairs.

Facebook has a great Wait it out mother support community with tons of moms going through the same thing.

You need a community that understands what you're going through — a community that's ready and willing to swap tips and trade advice on everything from breastfeeding woes to the best brands of diapers to how you can successfully (and unapologetically) carve out solo time as a single mother.

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According to the state's appropriation currently being hashed out in the budget, the state would control the money through the Division of Housing and Community Renewal.

What: He was kicked out of the Assembly in 2009 after being convicted and sentenced to three years probation and community service for dragging his bleeding girlfriend through his apartment building lobby in a violent scene caught on security cameras.