Sentences with phrase «smaller churches tend»

It was kind of confusing, however, because later in the book he stated that smaller churches tend to be healthier churches, and God loves to work in obscurity (p. 168).

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Almost going broke, meeting Christians who are Democrats in her church's small groups, encountering the plight of the homeless firsthand, and watching charitable relief projects in action broaden her awareness of significant problems in America and beyond, problems that Republican politicians, she says, tend to ignore.

That number was a «total church budget» number, so it would include community outreach and missions (which tends to be a fairly small percentage in most church budgets).

On the modern road to Jericho, which runs around the bottom of the Mount of Olives, is the Roman Catholic church, with a small, reverently tended garden beside it containing some old, gnarled olive trees.

The African indigenous church gatherings tend to be smaller, but the total number of different African independent church groups has multiplied well beyond 3,000, representing millions of blacks.

In these settings a small corps of priests or other functionaries, or perhaps a single religious leader, provides ceremonial proficiency and continuity for a larger lay populace whose participation, while not casual, tends to be more occasional and informal than the ordered activity of church attendance.

Church - affiliated shelters tend to be smaller and their atmosphere more familial than their public counterparts.

According to our study, leaders from small churches (100 or fewer) tend to be more comfortable with evangelical than those from large churches (1,000 or more).

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.

The priest is Reverend Toller (Ethan Hawke), and he tends to a small, barely - attended church that remains open solely because of its historical import; located in upstate New York, the church was once a stop on the Underground Railroad for Canada - bound escaped slaves.

For example, the Peterborough Diocese Education Trust has «a higher - than - average number of smaller schools» simply because church schools tend to be smaller.

Paula retired to a small city north of Austin and devotes more time to her church and civic volunteer work, serving on several nonprofit boards and tending to her health.

There are a small number of church related organizations that technically fit the bill, but they don't promote themselves this way and they only tend to focus on their own community.