Sentences with phrase «special ministry»

Following overseas missions, and then domestic missions to persons like the Indians, the next moves for special ministries were in the armed forces and in prisons.

Some churches are supporting special ministries designed to provide specific help in social re-entry.

And some people need special ministries most of their lives if they are to have any at all.

They all said that the key to making a big church small is through midweek groups or serving in special ministries.

From here on, no attempt is made to distinguish the chronology of the churches» interest in one or another setting requiring special ministry.

It seems significant that, in these two settings where it became clear that the special situation demanded special ministry, the solutions finally worked out involved negotiated protection by the church of the actual ministry, but a budget from somewhere else.

Members of evangelical churches have a higher commitment than do main liners to support special ministries, media ministries in particular.

But it may well be that special ministry will eventually have to come.

For some periods of his life however — college years, armed services, and the like — every person today needs a special ministry.

Its program of service and ministry has demonstrated that the clergy can be trained for a special ministry to alcoholics, provided there are more institutions that can use their services as active members of the staff cooperating with others.

Also clearly there must be some kind of special ministry to those persons who can not receive it from a local church clergyman.

John Cardinal O'Connor of New York recently pondered out loud about the need for a new order of sisters who would be vowed to poverty, chastity, and obedience and would have a special ministry to women with problem pregnancies and old people who (with reason) fear the implications of revived agitations in favor of eugenics.

If at all possible, a congregation should consider a special ministry to support single parents.

Of these, 36 asked for someone with experience and a special ministry towards young people, children and families.

Underwood's recommendation that churches and private foundations should increase their funding of campus ministries was not well received in a decade in which general financial retrenchment by judicatories has led to a truncating of all special ministries.

What unites all elements of this process is the assumed centrality of the scriptures for church self - understanding and the necessity for the special ministry of study and interpretation as well as proclaiming the word in preaching.

Conventional wisdom, therefore, grounded in New Testament theology, has given us the special ministry of the people of God that we call the ordained ministry.

The gift of ministry, celebrated in the special ministry of those set apart for the care of the household, is of the essence of the church.

That ministry is a group of persons who have exhibited «gifts and graces» for this special ministry, either by formal study or other evidence that they are fit and, therefore, specially called into the ministry of word, sacrament, and order.

Several Lutheran bodies have had a long tradition of special ministries to such groups as the deaf and the blind, and the Episcopal Church has also been heavily involved in such specialized ministries.

This is Konchalski's special ministry.

Clearly there is a significant place in higher education for the state or private secular institution, in which faith commitments are limited to the private realm — and the churches have a special ministry to the students of such universities.

Exodus Health Center is a special ministry that aims to help people gain victory in their life and health by offering true wellness based solutions such as chiropractic care aimed to maximize neurological, organ, & immune function throughout the body, nutritional programming to provide purity and sufficiency at the cellular level and sound exercise and movement patterns designed to improve oxygenation, strength, & brain function.

Your blog and the mbs are such a wonderful treat to daily life and I agree with others that it is a special ministry gift that you have.