Sentences with phrase «people in small communities»

Which means it makes a whole lot of sense for gay people in small communities to have such a tough time dating.

Taken at face value this math is hard enough on gay people in small communities, but it's made even worse by the fact that gay people tend to leave these communities and coalesce in larger urban areas.

Which means the already small percentage of gay people in small communities is even slighter than you'd think.

Another participant said, «I'm beginning to see some real enthusiasm, particularly among young people in small communities in West Virginia, to begin looking for something beyond, something beyond coal.»

Ray Scollin, state Republican Vice Chair of the North Country, said investing in infrastructure is critical to combat the brain drain and keep young people in small communities like Saranac Lake, which is fast becoming one of the Adirondack Park's most desirable communities for young people.

Not exact matches

Instead of just the big, famous causes and their galas, Six Degrees is more focused on people who are in individual, smaller communities, or big cities, who need funding and can use the celebrity status to get noticed.

That includes a focus on communities of color, the military community, LGBTQ, people with disabilities and those in small towns and cities.

Ultimately, your tribe can enjoy the same sense of community we find in small towns — people know each other, like each other, and help each other.

Throughout this time, the small town Sandusky, Ohio values have allowed us to do business in the community where we live with the people we see every day.

«Every dollar put into helping more people in Miami participate in our city's economic opportunities is an investment in our future and these funds will go to community organizations that are helping families and small business owners get ahead and build a path to prosperity,» Guillermo Castillo, market leader and head of commercial banking for Chase in South Florida, said in a statement.

By investing in pioneering individuals, non-profits and mission driven companies who dare to re-imagine the possible, PSF has helped to bring about important breakthroughs — from cancer research and small scale agriculture to criminal justice reform and educational opportunities for young people in communities around the world.

«[We'll provide immediate and permanent help for Canada's hard working small business people, who are the backbone of the local communities and the creators of 80 per cent of all new jobs in this country,» Mulcair said, in announcing the nearly 20 per cent tax reduction.

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

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.

They don't have the support system that people provide in small cities and farm communities.

Today in America most people live in large urban centers, not small communities.

For example, for most of human history people lived most or all of their lives in relatively small communities where everyone knew everyone and your livelihood and welfare depended on your reputation.

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 settinIn 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 settinin a «state of the church» community meeting, congregational prayer time, or a small group setting.

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.

He has a heart for the hurting in his community and leads a small discipleship group called Belong, whose doors are open to drug addicts, the homeless, those with learning difficulties and any person who simply wants to belong.

At any stage of development, man as a person in community and also the community of persons who are moving towards «civilization», may be deflected from following the main «aim», and hence may become either a backwater in the ongoing movement or be victims of maladjustment so serious that damage is done not only to the whole dynamic process but also to the smaller organisms or societies, including man himself as such an organic entity.

This unique emphasis upon what in Anglo - Saxon cultures we call «the communitarian individual» (the individual who is not atomic and alone, but a member of many different, smaller communities) provides two different forms of protection from the State, one for the individual person and the other for what Edmund Burke called «the little platoons» of daily life.

In every church and every community a considerable percentage of «normal» people exist as emotional cripples, living half - lives at only a small fraction of their potentialities.

Did Dave Ramsey consider faithful Christians, pastors in communities too small to support a pastor... or the fact that a 3000 church can pay persons that are not head pastors such low wages that they have to seek gov. Assistance... are these people shuned by God despite their dedicationn to a ministry position that does not get the prestige of the head pastor position.

But it is also held that globalization has brought in its wake, great inequities, mass impoverishment and despair, that it has fractured society along the existing fault lines of class, gender and community, while almost irreversibly widening the gap between rich and poor nations, that it has caused the flow of currencies across international borders, which has been responsible for financial and economic crises in many countries and regions, including the current Asian financial crisis, that it has enriched a small minority of persons and corporations within nations and within the international system, marginalizing and violating the basic human rights of millions of workers, peasants and farmers and indigenous communities.

A man opened fire inside a church in a small South Texas community on Sunday, killing 26 people and wounding about 20 others in what the governor called the deadliest...

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

People experience love, reconciliation, and grace in small communities of caring.

I live in a small rural community and within a 10 mile radius, I could name you at least four preachers who have either molested children, having perfected affairs, stripping and robbing God's people of money and running around on their wives.

As various small autonomous communities were established around some lay people, men and women, which maintained links through their authorities and their catechists, at the end of 1800, the growth of Christianity was enough to disturb the political authorities and in 1801, provoked the first persecution.

These small groups usually meet in people's homes once a week for a ten - week period, discussing such topics as how to change consumption habits, build community and transform work.

I've heard of people putting a small amount of salt on the tongue of the newly baptized believer (actually during the baptism) to represent being salt and light in the community.

Small groups are great places to meet new people and to be in community with people you might not otherwise hang out with.

My strong bias is toward the local, small, geographically determined local parish where people live in authentic community.

This led me to believe that the book would take us beyond small groups, and into real life connections with real people at work and in the community.

In the West Brighton section of Staten Island, small groups of people walk across the street from the project buildings into the parking lot of New Hope Community Church, where they dodge basketballs whizzing by before congregating in a beautifully renovated building that was a staging area for an underground pit bull fighting ring up until a few years agIn the West Brighton section of Staten Island, small groups of people walk across the street from the project buildings into the parking lot of New Hope Community Church, where they dodge basketballs whizzing by before congregating in a beautifully renovated building that was a staging area for an underground pit bull fighting ring up until a few years agin a beautifully renovated building that was a staging area for an underground pit bull fighting ring up until a few years ago.

Commit to building genuine community with a small group of people who are interested in learning the truth rather than doing thing the way they have always been done.

As Wade Clark Roof points out in a recent study, this neglect will lead to «a crisis of plausibility» resulting in alienation of growing numbers of persons and finally in the church's representing a very small minority (Community and Commitment: Religious Plausibility in a Liberal Protestant Church [Elsevier, 1978], pp. 6 - 9).

The large number of people who are involved in small groups, the depth of their involvement, the extent of their caring for each other, and even the degree to which they reach out to others in the wider community all suggest that the social fabric has not unraveled nearly to the extent that many critics have suggested.

So when people say they are finding community in a small group, and even when they describe their group as a family, they mean something quite different from the connotations that words like «community» and «family» have had in the past.

But in order to give ordinary people greater participation in the decisions that govern their lives, my ideal would be self - sufficiency in essentials in much smaller communities.

It has been shown that a quite small community, say ten thousand people, can produce most of what they need, and indeed do so in ways that retain healthy competition.

A decade later, a study of Episcopal churches by Wade Clark Roof showed that church people tend to be divided into two groups: the «locals» who prefer to live in small communities, get their satisfaction from relating closely to families and to friends, and belong to local groups; and the «cosmopolitans» who prefer living in large cities, get their satisfaction from dealing with ideas and international issues, and belong to large state or nationwide organizations.

«It characterizes the option between two different «trajectories» that are present in the history of the people of God, and it is in this history that it affirms and makes explicit the meaning of its vocation in the world».31 Latin America is a continent where the state is very oppressive and the economy is controlled by transnational companies with the result that economic benefits are concentrated in the hands of a small community.

Th preserve the «person in community» Daly and Cobb (1989, p. 165) favor development that takes the small group, such as the village, rather than the individual or the nation as the unit of development.

We are a very small community, 375 people in a county of 1,700, and this is going to be a lousy testimony.

In many of our smaller communities the place for the clergyman to begin is to develop a line of communication about people with problems of alcoholism with at least one local doctor.

Craycraft argues that the solution is to trust, not in the Supreme Court or in national elites to protect religious liberty, but in a divided federal government and strong state governments, which will allow the people to form smaller political communities that express how they choose to live.

I was in a smaller creative - minded community of people that was rather tight.

I was once in a «Chinese community at noon time, I didn't think anything about it, I stopped and went into a small ethnic restaurant, there was very noticeable conversations going on — I could hear it, but the moment I stepped in and the people saw me all conversations stopped.