Sentences with phrase «taught their community about»

Through partnering with a preschool special ed class, fifth - grade students learned and taught their community about developmental disabilities, enhancing their own empathy in the process.

Lecture topics focus on local wildlife species and promote wildlife conservation by teaching the community about the beauty and value of our wildlife here in San Diego.

Together they strive to teach the community about CAP and its mission, pet care, the pet overpopulation crisis and the responsibilities / commitment of pet guardianship.

'» Since Martin Luther King Day became a Day of Service in 1994, many people have answered Dr. King's question in a number of ways — helping their community prepare for a disaster, giving back to schools, teaching their community about healthy lifestyles, supporting military families, and serving as environmental stewards.

FRAU FIBER is a soft guerilla super hero crafting spirited durational performances, using pedagogical, material, and playful approaches to teach communities about the human cost of mass production and consumption.

Not exact matches

As Mitra got similar results again and again (to date, Hole In The Wall experiments have been conducted in more than a hundred communities in India, Southeast Asia and Africa), he began to wonder about what else kids with digital resources could teach themselves.

They taught us a lot about being good to our people and giving back to our community.

Among them: intensive community gardens that provide a therapeutic space where members are taught how to grow their own vegetables; programs that teach young mothers about proper nutrition; workshops where local residents learn about food security and receive public - speaking training; and after - school classes where tweens whip up healthy meals.

Now in its ninth year, Aspen Heights» MicroSociety helps teach kids, their families and the community at large about conservation and environmental stewardship.

About Toronto East General Hospital @EastGeneral Toronto East General Hospital (TEGH) is a full - service community teaching hospital that has proudly provided high quality health care to the residents of East Toronto for over 86 years.

He also instructs others about the topic — Jim has created and taught courses on financial planning at DePaul University and William Rainey Harper Community College.

Haaretz: With help of popular taboo - breaking book, Haredim teach children about sexual abuse The success of a new book aimed at helping ultra-Orthodox parents teach their children how to protect themselves from sexual abuse is a strong indication that a community once reluctant to acknowledge the crime is now beginning to face reality.

I'm passionate about the topic, personally, of course, but in all of the conversations I've had since Jesus Feminist came out, I've come to realise that it's even more important than I could have dreamed to speak the truth here and teach the truth in our communities.

what upsets people is what i DO N'T do: such as lead in a particular way, teach with authority, be more charismatic, not setting a higher moral standard, stuff like that... it's not about what i or we DO as a community.

What has that group taught you or reminded you about Christian community?

Not all Christians will follow the lead of the new monastics to create intentional communities in abandoned places of empire, but those that do, such as the folks at Camden House in New Jersey, can teach the rest of us a lot — for example, about environmental racism.

At one point in history, it was a great way to reach the community for Jesus and teach and train these new believers about Jesus.

If this is true, then some people are born and die without ever even hearing about the way to God, without ever even having the possibility of living in a community that will teach them about God and help them to live out His calling.

He added: «I am passionate about the Christian faith that can transform individuals, communities and institutions, and about communicating that faith through pastoral care, teaching and community engagement.

It was not until I left Garrett and Northwestern and returned to Philander Smith to teach religion and philosophy that I began to ask more formally about the relation between faith and suffering as that contradiction is defined in the black community.

Every citizen, every parent, every teacher and administrator must make decisions about what shall be taught in homes, schools, churches, industry, and community.

Whatever their exact number, Christians are leaven in deeply troubled Pakistan whose Muslim majority disallows increasingly the Prophet's teachings about restraint from violence and his injunctions to honor the Ummah (religious community) Internecine Muslim murders are a daily occurrence in Pakistan, and, whatever the discrimination against Christians, it is more social and economic in nature and far less violent than what Muslims do to one another.

Think you are wisely right to have your concerns but let me Guide you to ask which branches of Islam handles each mosque you know of and find out more about their mentality and they call for since not all branches of Islam are of danger, but you mentioned some thing which make me feel that there is a possibility that you got the most redial branch of all Islam branches... This branch is taking advantage of the presence of non harming Muslims to expand it's redical teachings by offerings or force turning Islamic communities from normal to most redical of all... do not favor to give the name of that branch but sure you will find it if you look for it...

Church leaders need to proactively show their members how to serve and who to love in the community, not just preach and teach about it.

The leader of KingsGate Community Church in Peterborough talks to Lucinda Borkett - Jones about teaching on the resurrection and resourcing the Church in mission.

By centering this article on communities, I have not mentioned, for example, those who taught me most about how — as distinct from what — to think theologically and historically: Robert L. Calhoun and H. Richard Niebuhr of Yale, and Paul Vignaux of Paris.

The Apostle's Creed presents us with the Trinity (that is not all it presents, but just an example), which gives us the basic idea that the Gospel is about community, which then needs to be expanded through the teaching in the church to explain social justice, kingdom living, responsibility towards earth - care, etc..

Luke doesn't tell us anything about the struggle John may have had in leaving the community or in rejecting some of its more exclusive teachings.

The book of Acts really teaches us that it's all too easy — even with all the gifts of grace we have received — for the Christian community to almost entirely fall our of step with that freedom and virtually abandon the message of life (Paul talks in Galatians about how he stood alone for the Gospel).

But the radical act of staying put, the theology of place, is teaching me, the over-thinker, that thinking isn't the same thing as doing, my intentions and beliefs and pontificating about community matters not one iota if I am not engaged in living out the reality of it.

The Church teaches many things about the way in which society should work: about the laws we make, about how we treat one another and respect each other's rights, about behaving justly with our money, about the value of human life and the duties we owe to the communities in which we live.

I believe that all of the Biblical Feasts and Festivals were intended to teach us things about God, Messiah, ourselves, and living in community.

And in the course of that inquiry they quickly discover that education is so closely connected with the life of a community that queries about the aims of teaching and learning can not be answered unless ideas about the character and the purposes of the society in which it is carried on are clarified first of all.

As human beings, we need rituals to mark time and space, to give order and pattern to communal life, and to teach us about our distinctiveness as a family, faith community, or culture.

For example, such a culture may include some or all of the following; ongoing safety classes for parents, children and youth, sermons that teach about the value of children and that openly address issues related to abuse, ongoing child protection training for staff and volunteers, and the hosting of community wide events that address issues related to abuse.

By an opaque concept of revelation, 1 mean that familiar amalgamation of three levels of language in one form of traditional teaching about revelation: first, the level of the confession of faith where the lex credendi is not separated from the lex orandi; second, the level of ecclesial dogma where a historic community interprets for itself and for others the understanding of faith specific to its tradition; and third, the body of doctrines imposed by the magisterium as the rule of orthodoxy.

Apparently, various first century churches struggled with the teachings of Jesus, Paul, and others about the new roles women could assume in the Christian community.

especially one that may have taught about Jesus... and that helped build community and honesty with vulnerability among its members... as Jesus did.

JW Buddha taught about helping neighbors, community over self, not judging others, judging self and working on the self, and treating others as you would be treated.

It isn't about human rituals but about believing the Holy Messiah, Jesus Christ by name to the Christian community did bear the sufferings for our sins, so that we, by repentance (turning away from our sins) and following in the teachings of the Messiah to become the «new man in him» can be forgiven, and given the great mercy and grace that we all need, in order to be saved, and not destroyed with all that is evil.

Ignoring what the Church teaches about proper reception of the Eucharist is really a form of asserting one's own will against the experience and wisdom of the believing community — because that's what the Church is, a community of believers committed to God's truth, not just here and now, but across time.

My work had taught me about the importance of finding meaning, surrendering spiritually, and leaning on community in times of crisis.

The leader of KingsGate Community Church in Peterborough talks to Lucinda Borkett - Jones about teaching... More

«There's no silencing of Sister Farley in the notification, there's no threat to her membership in her religious community; it's just about the book, which everyone agrees probably shouldn't be taught in Catholic seminaries, certainly shouldn't be taught in religious education classes for young persons.

Biblical teaching about priesthood fills out the picture, because in the Bible priests are always embedded in liturgical communities and attached to a liturgical center.

These universal tenets include teachings about love of neighbor; compassion and charity; the central importance of justice and reconciliation; and the obligation to live in a way that benefits the greater human community.

Both the Muslim and the Christian have sought to bring as much as possible of the worldly affairs of their communities under the rule of the divine law and to make effective what their faiths teach about the origin and destiny of human society.

And if so, how do you go about correcting theological error in a community that is already so wounded and vulnerable because they have grown up battered by «biblical» teaching?

Like the disciples taken aback at Jesus's strong words about divorce, we shrink from the full truth and deny the nobility of Christian teaching on sexuality, making excuses for our own failures and for those in our communities.

C.f. M.Levering, Sacrifice and Community: Jewish Offering and Christian Eucharist (2005), p. 90: «In teaching human beings about eternal realities in accord with the manner of human knowing through sensible things, God works through the visible sign to make present the invisible reality».