Sentences with phrase «thousands of church services»

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Hillsong New York pastor Carl Lentz is quickly becoming one of the most influential pastors in America, and along with drawing thousands to the church's weekly services, regular visitors include everyone from ministers to pop - stars, athletes and high - profile cultural figures.

So we ignore the thousands of soup kitchens, shelters, clothing drives, emergency rent assistance, and various other services that charities associated with the Catholic Church provides simply because you personally have not benefited?

But in Mark, finding the donkey seems more like a delegated chore — somewhat akin to the worship committee meeting to plan the Palm Sunday service, one of those thousands of routine and inglorious details of church work that are necessary but not the real action.

And yet today, hundreds, perhaps thousands, of churches around the country are being pressed into service as polling places.

The crucifixion of Jesus was marked in Jerusalem on Good Friday when thousands of Christians attended a service held at a church considered by some believers to be where Jesus died and was buried.

What surprised me on this trip was that at every single event, one or two people would pull me aside and ask how I kept from getting discouraged by those big numbers that Mark Driscoll, and pastors like him, are always bragging about — the 10 million downloads, the enormous church planting network, the packed - out services, the hundreds of thousands of blog visitors.

The Meeting House is a multisite Anabaptist congregation in Ontario, Canada where thousands of people connect to God and each other through Sunday services, online interaction, and a widespread house church network.

The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington said Wednesday that it will be unable to continue the social service programs it runs for the District if the city doesn't change a proposed same - sex marriage la, a threat that could affect tens of thousands of people the church helps with adoption, homelessness, and ehalth care.

Thousands of people gathered for a special church service this weekend to celebrate the County of Durham's mining tradition.

I'd say half of the most impactful people I know, who love Jesus and tear up at the mention of His name, who reach out to the poor and lonely and are fundamentally sound in their theology, who create institutions that feed hundreds of thousands, do not attend a traditional church service.

For their 9/11 services, thousands of Catholic and Protestant churches that follow the lectionary, a standardized collection of scripture readings, will be reading from the Gospel of Matthew, where Jesus teaches his disciples how to forgive.

At 6 p.m., NYC First Lady Chirlane McCray, Deputy Mayor for Housing and Economic Development Alicia Glen, Small Business Services Commissioner Maria Torres - Springer, and Citi will announce a new initiative to expand the economic potential of thousands of women entrepreneurs across the five boroughs, NYCHA Ceremonial Room, 90 Church St., 5th Floor, Lower Manhattan.

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A spokesperson for the Catholic Education Service said the new plans meant the church could now meet parental demand for thousands of new places.

As the summer tourist season draws to a close in New York, so too winds down the high period for one of the more peculiar attractions the city has to offer: Sunday church services in Harlem, which bring in thousands of foreign travelers each week.While the practice has been the topic of debate for years, I discovered it only last spring, when two friends were visiting from France.