Sentences with phrase «small congregation»

The personality of the pastor is crucial to a large, growing congregation in a way that is not true for smaller congregations.

Many churches now have very small congregations; some churches have closed altogether.

A few years later, I left behind a healthy but decidedly small congregation that is now calling a new pastor.

In small congregations which pay all benefits, which meet all salary guidelines, and which are not exploitative, the fact remains that there is more openness to the leadership of women than is found in large churches.

A new study has found that many churches, especially those with smaller congregations, are failing to offer any youth work provision, and those that do...

Because ours was a relatively small congregation made up of German immigrants who often shared my grandfather's story, I knew everyone in it and they knew me, Together we formed a community that tried — we did not succeed nearly enough — to mirror in this life what God's love for everyone means practically.

Many moved from small congregations to larger ones.

As for ideas to help small congregations, Lummis discussed a) developing financial supports and incentives from denominational sources, b) using retired clergy, c) employing clergy from other denominations, d) ordaining people to less - than - full clergy status and e) using lay pastoral leaders or cluster teams of clergy and lay leaders.

«Is racial integration more likely in diverse smaller congregations than in diverse congregations of thousands?»

In smaller congregations, people who have already been through some family - related trauma or who have experienced recent bereavement can be encouraged to minister to others in similar situations.

If North America is now a mission field, this fact has tremendous implications for small congregations.

The problem is for most people is time and the fact that often they attend churches with relatively small congregations — or even churches that are so big that it can be quite hard to really get to know people and their friends propely.

Hence the larger number of very small congregations.

The small congregation to which I belong, The Open Church of Maryland, has pledged to help specific families with ties to our members.

I was going to mock these, but, in truth, for a small congregation, where somebody's personal car has to double as the church car, these could be useful.

Faced with fewer priests and smaller congregations, where should our parishes and schools of the future be located?

And our small congregation gives generously.

He said, «I am a part time pastor of a small congregation and I sell copiers to put food on the table.

Our church is a small congregation.

Opposite to your tendency to look to the future, a small congregation is much more likely to look toward the past.

And just as the retail workers at Target are left in the lurch, our small congregations were often left to scatter in the aftermath, trying to find healing as best they could.

It was a small congregation but a strong one.

Many members of the small congregation are related to Phelps through blood or marriage.

If it's your ministry philosophy to minister whole heartedly in self sacrificial love, it's better to pastor a small congregation where you are able to built deep relationships.

McLuhan also suggested that microphones lead to smaller congregations.

In a small congregation, relationships resemble those in a family.

This open acknowledgment of the moral context of the therapeutic group enabled the group to function in relationship to the individual somewhat like a small congregation or Methodist class meeting.

I am learning that not all big - steeple pastors are ambitious religious capitalists; he is learning that small congregation pastors are not necessarily lazy underachievers.

With 167 members and 98 in worship on a typical Sunday, St. Andrew is a small congregation.

Being a small congregation has made each of these ministries easier for us.

As more churches grow to stadium proportions, small congregations are coming to see their diminutive size as an asset for mission.

Shelbyville is a typical northern New England church: a small congregation of 120 members located in a town with 1,000 residents; many of the members are elderly, and finances are a constant concern.

But my time at St. Andrew has taught me that small congregations can more easily go through processes of spiritual transformation than larger ones and can be made «free for real missionary adventure and apostolic self - confidence,» in Rahner's words.

Small congregations are the right size to be all that God calls a church to be.

Since a shortage of pastors hovers over the future of many churches, small congregations will have to wait in line for full - time pastors, even if they possess the resources to support them.

But no matter how beneficial these churches are as models of mission, they are both a blessing and a curse for pastors of small congregations.

Levying property taxes upon churches would have the effect of closing the doors of thousands of small congregations that operate on a shoestring.

The family - cluster house - church has been used in some small congregations instead of Sunday School as the basic form of education for children and youth.

In a small congregation, groups can be organized on an ad hoc basis in response to particular needs of members; in larger congregations, the size of the congregation may warrant ongoing groups that parents conjoin on a short - term basis.

The small congregation of some 25 people gathered in the chancel to share this moment of worship was made up of invited guests — close friends, in many instances, of both the man and the woman.

The small congregation of some 25 people gathered in the chancel to share this moment of worship was made...

The United Presbyterians have put together a booklet on evangelism in the small congregation — The Vital Signs, by Wesley Baker.

She was ordained by ALEPH: the Alliance for Jewish Renewal in 2011, and today serves a small congregation in western Massachusetts.

We were called to minister to a small congregation about 4 years ago.

«For a smaller congregation, it's really nice to be a part of something bigger,» said Matt Staniz, the pastor of Temple Lutheran Church in Haverton, Pennsylvania.

Same thing we Christians say when CNN editors post articles and say that some pastor from some small town with a small congregation is a major Christian Pastor in American society.

when «CNN editors post articles and say that some pastor from some small town with a small congregation is a major Christian Pastor in American society»

A study published in 2000 by the ELCA revealed that of the cohort of newly minted pastors, 71 percent placed constraints upon where they could move due to the needs or desires of a spouse; 58 percent restricted their first call to a location in or near a large city; 36 percent were opposed to serving in a small congregation; and 32 percent were opposed to serving in a rural setting.