Sentences with phrase «prayer groups meeting»

The arrangements that went into the 1986 District of Columbia crusade were typical of the big rallies of the later years: 500,000 personal invitations issued, 400,000 packets of material mailed to area homes, thousands of prayer groups meeting regularly for months ahead, 4,000 workers trained to counsel with «inquirers,» another thousand prepared for follow - up work.

Not exact matches

Organize a prayer group and meet regularly with three parishioners you trust implicitly for critique, support, and, as the name says, prayer.

Although it might also include opposing government encroachment on civil rights, such as, banning personal prayer in school, banning student led prayer groups and meet - at - the - flag - pole groups, and banning Muslism garb.

«The board will conduct its meeting in an atmosphere of prayer, contemplation and dialogue and will develop a plan to involve LCWR membership in similar processes,» the group said in a statement.

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.

The Kingdom is often taking root in small ways — in our kitchens and in our parish halls, in our streets and our subsidized daycares, in youth group mentoring relationships and after - school care, in prayer circles and by - law meetings at city council.

An answer to that petition came for me some years ago when a Quaker friend invited me to meet regularly with a small group to share prayer practices.

Group led prayer is offensive and completely inappropriate at a business meeting for ALL of the the people.

I think you should have the right ot counter it with a statement criticizing the idea of God and prayer in public meetings or schools or any gov» t led group meeting.

So they attend Sunday morning, Sunday night, the Wednesday prayer meeting, the Thursday night cell group, and the Saturday morning men's breakfast.

(I did meet his wife though, after about 20 years — she was wonderful) I was in all the prayer / intercession groups (I was called to prayer and a few other things) and several times one of the other pray - ers sort of intimated that ours was «The» church of the city, and I'd always then start praying for every God called church in my city.

Last month my wife — the social creature with a big heart that she is — met a couple through a woman's prayer group at the church we attend who was pouring out her heart about their impending homelessness.

I witnessed Presbyterians, Lutherans, Methodists and Congregationalists practicing silence at board meetings, prayer meetings, Bible studies, pastoral care sessions, labyrinth walks, yoga classes and discernment groups.

Last night, while the group I meet with gathered for prayer, we began praying for Libya, Egypt, Syria, Iran....

This was a group which met once a month for political worship, that is, for analysis of particular social crises and reflection and prayer about them, followed by asking what could be done in response.

• Meetings: Informal meetings occurred almost daily; there was also a set - up meeting on Monday; and a regular Oxford Group meeting on Wednesday, with prayer, Bible - reading, guidance, witnessing, topic discussion, surrenders, newcomer announcements, Lord's Prayer, and social time afterward for men and women (DR. BOB, Meetings: Informal meetings occurred almost daily; there was also a set - up meeting on Monday; and a regular Oxford Group meeting on Wednesday, with prayer, Bible - reading, guidance, witnessing, topic discussion, surrenders, newcomer announcements, Lord's Prayer, and social time afterward for men and women (DR. BOB, meetings occurred almost daily; there was also a set - up meeting on Monday; and a regular Oxford Group meeting on Wednesday, with prayer, Bible - reading, guidance, witnessing, topic discussion, surrenders, newcomer announcements, Lord's Prayer, and social time afterward for men and women (DR. BOB, p.prayer, Bible - reading, guidance, witnessing, topic discussion, surrenders, newcomer announcements, Lord's Prayer, and social time afterward for men and women (DR. BOB, p.Prayer, and social time afterward for men and women (DR. BOB, p. 140).

Broad - rimmed Western hats did not meet the Islamic requirement that the forehead touch the ground during prayer and the Sultan issued a decree enforcing the wearing of the fez, applicable to all religious groups.

Involvement with the charismatic movement in the 1970s meant prayer - groups, meeting variously at St Patrick's church in Soho and then later the southern suburbs of London.

Meanwhile, this is a prayer - book that could usefully be ordered by groups and parishes and widely distributed - it would come in handy for common prayer at meetings of Catholic women's groups and youth groups as well as having much value for private devotions.

In a statement, the group said it would conduct this week's special meeting «in an atmosphere of prayer, contemplation and dialogue and will develop a plan to involve LCWR membership in similar processes.»

Most of the time the groups, whether a Tuesday noon business - person's lunch, or a Thursday morning prayer and Bible study group, or a Sunday evening discussion group, meet without David Landry.

Julie continues to meet with a mums» group for prayer once a fortnight but has dropped out of attending any church.

The group you meet with for encouragement and prayer should be the group that goes out with you to develop relationships for evangelism and discipleship.

As caterpillars of faith, we happily munched through everything: Bible studies, home groups, prayer meetings, worship songs, four - hour sermons.

Groups of 10 or more that desire to meet inprivate homes for prayer or worship would have to sub-mit names and addressesof participants to local authorities and be monitored for 15 years.

We saw lives changed, but also activity without transformation: prayer meetings, deacons meetings, elders meetings, home groups, «double Sundays»... often without a thought or mention, and certainly not an experience, of the presence of God.

They are the same people who fight nondenominational prayers in public schools, the use of public school facilities for meetings of high school religious - interest groups, and state support of private schools.

In Germany, he addressed the German parliament, met Jewish and Muslim groups, held a prayer vigil with young people and celebrated Mass in Berlin's Olympic Stadium (built by Hitler, nastily said all the non-German critics; and in use ever since, like the autobahns, one might riposte).

His crusades in Charlotte, North Carolina, produced some converts who organized a prayer group that met for years, praying that God would continue the ministry of evangelism through the people of Charlotte.

The meeting regularly starts with a silent minute of gratitude to God for continuing divine support, followed by the group recitation of the Serenity Prayer.

So many nights a week we were at church meetings, having supper with people, at home groups, prayer meetings, and so on.

It can provide the theme and focus for staff and committee meetings, women's and men's societies, board meetings, trustees meetings, Bible study groups, prayer groups, marriage enrichment groups, even choir rehearsal.

No doubt, before Judas left the meal, arrangements had been made for the little group to convene after supper at its customary meeting place for prayer before crossing over the Mount of Olives to Bethany to spend the night.

Most locates either began or concluded the satellite meeting with a 20 - minute period of centering prayer - thus providing a technologically - linked prayer group throughout the country.

A small group of Christians in parliament are changing the law, almost unimpeded, to give local councils the power to introduce prayers to their meetings.

He uses still shots of street life as the visual connective tissue between capturing meetings held by various minority groups: Columbians celebrating a World Cup victory and then taking their party to the pavement; a mature LGBT community circle discussing the venue for future meetings; a Halal butcher blessing chickens prior to slicing their throats and having their still - twiching bodies dragged through various grubby processing machines; a group of Hispanic activists gathering stories of small business being forced out of their premises due to unfair rent hikes; and even a group of Christian urban beautifiers who are seen descending into intense prayer when one of their number explains that her father is dying.

Among them: an administrator called meetings to decide what to do about students wearing Confederate flag apparel; a principal banned the student newspaper from covering a controversial issue, only relenting when the local media reported the story; and a student Bible group, prohibited from distributing fliers on campus unless the word prayer and any Biblical quotations were eliminated from the flier, filed suit against a principal.

Indianapolis — A group of educators, meeting here to mark the 20th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision outlawing organized prayer and Bible readings in public schools, concluded that the debate over religion in public schools has entered a complex stage requiring greater caution and sensitivity than ever by schools.

Going back to the two examples: Let's say an LGBTQ group was having a non-privileged support group meeting (no professional or licensed therapists present) and a local mosque was having a youth prayer meeting.

We've had to literally force ourselves out of our apartment by lending our living room to friends from church who needed a meeting space for a weekly prayer group.