Sentences with phrase «served as congregation»

Before King Jimmy Bridge collapsed, the tunnels served as congregation spots for young people, where discussions ensued about their current predicaments and about the plight of the youthman in a country where high rates of youth unemployment have forced a generation into marginal and irregular income - generating activities.

What's more, Bennett said that when Romney served as their congregation's bishop — the equivalent of an unpaid pastor — it wasn't uncommon for the two friends to fast more than once a month.

Jackson served on staff of University Christian Church (UCC) in Cincinnati for nearly 19 years, and served as the congregation's Lead Pastor from 1996 - 2013.

Serve as the congregation's representative for the Faith - Based Advisory Council for Orange County Public Schools

Not exact matches

In the United Church of Zambia, a pastor may serve as many as eight or ten congregations.

Bonhoeffer was also involved with those who drafted documents that could serve as the basis for a new order of government after the coup, and he composed a pronouncement pointing toward reorganization of the Protestant church, which could be used in congregations at the conclusion of the war.

To this day there is a brass box in our bedroom that served for years as «the gift of gold» borne up the aisle, as did two of our pottery jars, both of them filled by the congregation's imagination with frankincense and myrrh.

One year while serving as pastor of a congregation just outside Indianapolis, I met with a two - member worship committee to plan Holy Week and Easter services.

I have no doubt that John, our choir director at one of the congregations where my father served, sincerely believed that «Whispering Hope,» a number frequently chosen by him as the choir's offertory piece, was a profoundly Christian hymn; but it was really an expression of vacuous hope without any substantive theological grounding: «Wait till the darkness is over / wait till the tempest is done / Hope for the sunshine tomorrow, after the darkness is gone / Whispering hope, oh, how welcome thy voice / Making my heart in its sorrow rejoice.»

The three questions can serve as horizons within which to conduct rigorous inquiry into any of the array of subject matters implied by the nature of congregations, disciplined by any relevant scholarly method, in such a way that attention is focused on the theological significance of what is studied:

The bi-vocational pastorate may serve as a better model for congregational mission than the «two - point parish model» by which one pastor serves two congregations.

The ministry of episkopé continued this eucharistic focus, as bishops began to serve among the congregations, unifying the Eucharist of the local communities and that of the universal church.

For twelve years Barth served as a pastor, first as a pastoral assistant at a German - speaking congregation in Geneva and then as pastor of the Swiss Reformed Church in Safenwil, a small industrial town in the Aargau.

We spoke of many things, but the conversation repeatedly returned to the people and ministry of the Bronx congregation where he had served as interim pastor.

Every elder serves with strong humility that flows throughout the congregation as we grow in understanding of the gospel and what it means for our lives.

What there is is finding other ways of exercising that call: interim pastor, parish associate, stated supply, teaching church school, worshiping always, serving on presbytery committees, being volunteers in mission, and by being a participant as an «honorary layperson» in the ongoing life of a congregation — all these and more are ways by which we respond to the enduring calling by God through the church.

But, in the various dicasteries — as the congregations and other offices are called — the atmosphere is one of earnestness of purpose in serving the pope.

It has been my ongoing involvement — as a pastor serving first a black congregation, then a Hispanic one, and now a largely West Indian and Haitian congregation — with the lives of inner - city families that has forced me to change the direction of my efforts as a public official.

As one pastor who moved from a large church to a small church commented, I would never go back to a large church... Administrative tasks kept getting in the way of doing what I wanted to be doing,... [which is] serving a congregation and making a difference in people's lives.»

To prepare for mission, in this view of things, would require the members of a congregation to discount their self - serving stuff, attempting to slough it off in order to offer their more recognizably Christian hopes and actions, such as the grace and love witnessed in their Communion, to other people.

I decided not to share the memories of my first congregation served as a pastor until one specific person died.

The bishop, who has served in the post in New Hampshire since early 2004, said he is energized about his next two years of ministry and support of clergy and congregations as the process of naming his successor moves forward.

I knew that when the Lord called me out of the congregation, where I was serving as Associate Rabbi, to start Shema, that we would, at least initially, be ministering to primarily non-Jews who were wanting to learn about the Hebraic roots.

My suggestion that it is an act of prophetic courage for a pastor to serve as the spiritual guide of a congregation is not a metaphor or a «model» for ministry.

Also, the ruling board of Faith Church is presently studying a recommendation from a dozen members that the congregation serve as a sanctuary for political refugees from Central America.

Though some of the splashier and more publicized experiments of the «wired church» attract the most attention and concern, most congregations that use computer technology are simply trying to make the ministries in which they are already engaged more effective, attractive and applicable to the lives of the people they serve, especially the young, for whom these technologies are as familiar a part of everyday life as using the telephone — a mobile unit, that is.

As churches reject such structures and turn to patterns of servant leadership that serve the world, women have just as many opportunities as men to guide congregations along those pathAs churches reject such structures and turn to patterns of servant leadership that serve the world, women have just as many opportunities as men to guide congregations along those pathas many opportunities as men to guide congregations along those pathas men to guide congregations along those paths.

A congregation serving in a worldly context would not, of course, be primarily interested in an understanding of mission as the conversion of peoples to either doctrinal or morphological fundamentalism.

The pastor serving as theological integrator, in fact, will undergird and shape the congregation and the community at large in once again placing trust in God in a meaningful way.

Such detailed accounts of congregations responding to their changing contexts can serve as marvelous case studies for further reflection.

And to what extent is the local congregation any longer able to serve as a school for the creation of a self - disciplined, independent, public - spirited, in a word, virtuous citizen?

Before being elected presiding Bishop, he served as bishop of the Saint Paul Area Synod from 1995 to 2001 and before that as pastor of three Minnesota congregations: Prince of Glory Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, Edina Community Lutheran Church, and University Lutheran Church of Hope in Minneapolis.

Having served as a pastor of Christian congregations for over 30 years prior to becoming the Director of the Center of Theological Inquiry, I feel qualified to assure you, if this be your call, that the ministry of a Christian congregation is the most challenging and the most rewarding, the most demanding and the most fulfilling, vocation in all the world.

As a worship leader, you're serving something bigger than yourself, and you want to write songs that are going to connect with a congregation and help them, so sometimes diving into your own angst and lament feels almost selfish.

I recall some twenty - three years ago when, as a young seminarian serving a congregation of tenant farm families in rural Virginia, one of my duties was to teach a class for high school students each Sunday morning.

The dance as liturgy must be presented so as to invite and involve the congregation, serving as a window through which, according to liturgist Jeffrey Rowthorn, «one thing is seen, but something else is understood.»

Since last fall, the church says, «members of congregations elected to serve as ruling elders have come together to pray, discuss, and try to discern the mind of Christ» on the issue.

Local ecumenism serves as a model where congregations can become involved, feel the strength of genuine participation, see significant change in their own congregational life, and then also be better able to conceive of the significance of worldwide ecumenism.

But conventionally shaped congregations, a third of a million of them in the United States, still serve Christians as the principal forum for their faith.

(McGraw is pictured above, third from right, and below, with his hands aloft) Council member Maria Baez (above center), who submitted the renaming request to the City Council, said the new street name would serve as a constant reminder of Woodhouse's contribution to her congregation and the wider community.

She serves as the spiritual life consultant for Canyon Ranch Properties and is a highly sought - after inspirational speaker and teacher who routinely addresses congregations, corporations, women's groups, leadership organizations, and countless other audiences throughout the United States.

Volunteer in schools: Encourage congregation members to serve as attendance buddies or mentors for chronically absent students.

Teller's thoughtful exploration of youth and old age, isolation and congregation, and life and death, serves as a reminder that dualisms are an inevitable part of life.

Partners for Sacred Places, founded in 1989, works to build the civic value of historic sacred places and the capacity of congregations to better serve their communities as anchor institutions, helping to shape vibrant, creative communities.

He was a founding member of the congregation of the Malverne Jewish Center, where he served as president and treasurer.

He was a founding member of the congregation of the Malverne Jewish Center, which he served as president and treasurer.

While intended for personal and household use, this resource can also serve as a helpful guide for congregations that want to quantitatively evaluate their ecological «footprint» and take steps towards greater sustainability and social equity.

Greater Washington Interfaith Power & Light, serving MD • DC • NoVA, is committed to serving as a meeting point for congregations undertaking solar projects, and to ensure that each project benefits from the experience and lessons learned of all of those that came before.

In the past two years, UUMFE has brought Earth justice education and action campaigns to their members and congregations (NWEI serving as a primary delivery model) and created an advocacy coalition for environmental justice issues in collaboration with other Unitarian Universalist (UU) partners.

Rev. Woodall served as a United Church minister at congregations across southwestern Ontario from at least 1985 to 2006.