Sentences with phrase «visit churches for»

I frequently visit churches for architectural and other appreciation.

He told me the story of when a Nigerian man visited his church for the first time.

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A Tampa Bay Times investigation from 2010 discusses how, for years, the church avoided paying a 5 % occupancy tax for members who visit their facilities until Pinellas County Tax Collector pressed the issue five years ago.

I met this clown at one of the churches I visited while looking for a new place here in lower Alabama.

For me, as a college student, young single woman, and then young married adult, I found that there were no Sunday gatherings for myself - no fellowship classes that matched my stage in life at most churches I visitFor me, as a college student, young single woman, and then young married adult, I found that there were no Sunday gatherings for myself - no fellowship classes that matched my stage in life at most churches I visitfor myself - no fellowship classes that matched my stage in life at most churches I visited.

Meryn Thomas, Chief Executive at CSW - a charity which advocates for persecuted Christians - said: «We reiterate our call for the patriarch's unconditional release and reinstatement and for representatives of sisterly Oriental Orthodox churches to visit him, not only to ensure his reinstatement and wellbeing, but also to verify the reconciliation process that is alleged to have occurred between the patriarch and renegade clergy.»

Why aren't you in church, having dinner with your families, reading the bible, out for a walk, getting together with friends, visiting the shut - ins who aren't able to attend services, or any number of other activities?

Pilgrim's Friend Society calls on the Church to provide care for the elderly after figures on short care visits released

Officials from both sides have said that the conversation will be focused on topics of shared values and priorities, but prior to the visit, Vatican Radio — which, according to USA Today «is considered an official organ of communication for the church «-- released a story addressing U.S. policy issues at odds with Vatican teaching.

- Pope to Mass of millions: Get out of church — What we learned about Pope Francis in Brazil — Massive crowd attends prayer service with pope — Why millennials are leaving the church — Pope Francis tells youth that faith cures discontent — «Slum pope» visits Brazil's poor — X.XX Church pastor: Weiner is an addict, not a joke — Security raised to «high risk» for pope in Brazil — A nightmare day for the pope's security detail — Explosive found near sitchurch — What we learned about Pope Francis in Brazil — Massive crowd attends prayer service with pope — Why millennials are leaving the church — Pope Francis tells youth that faith cures discontent — «Slum pope» visits Brazil's poor — X.XX Church pastor: Weiner is an addict, not a joke — Security raised to «high risk» for pope in Brazil — A nightmare day for the pope's security detail — Explosive found near sitchurch — Pope Francis tells youth that faith cures discontent — «Slum pope» visits Brazil's poor — X.XX Church pastor: Weiner is an addict, not a joke — Security raised to «high risk» for pope in Brazil — A nightmare day for the pope's security detail — Explosive found near sitChurch pastor: Weiner is an addict, not a joke — Security raised to «high risk» for pope in Brazil — A nightmare day for the pope's security detail — Explosive found near site pope

Peter Hawkins of Yale Divinity School writes about his recent visit to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, which is controlled by the Latin Catholics, Greek Orthodox, Armenians, Syrians, and Copts who have been vying with one another for centuries.

For one month, I visited churches that looked completely different from mine.

If you want to know more about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints, please visit http://www.lds.org Find out for yourself and not just based on what others said who also might be listening from others.

I'm not «bashing» the Mormon religion, but rather explaining my personal criteria when I say I would never vote for a Mormon, because I've visited the Mormon church when I was much younger, and deciding my own religious beliefs.

Karen Allen, the church's visitor coordinator, arranges for a personal contact with the Scotts the week after they visit.

Perhaps the church could get the youth group looking for something to do on weekends to visit all the singles» homes after midnight on Fridays and Saturdays — just to see if they are engaging in late - night, um, activities.

(CNN)-- When Pope Francis arrives in South Korea on Wednesday for a five - day visit, he'll get a look at just the kind of church he's been trying to create worldwide.

Young adults tend to start their search for anything — be it a church or an apartment or even a date — on the Internet, so if your site is difficult to navigate and embarrassingly out - of - date, they may not bother to come for a visit.

A couple of years after I accepted my best position as minister, serving as pastor of a church in St. Anne, Illinois, my parents came from Mexico for a visit, During their stay my father, who had recently turned 80, suffered a minor stroke that paralyzed the left side of his body.

A cold has been steadily passed around since we travelled to visit my husband's family for American Thanksgiving so we'll likely be staying home from church to spare everyone else a...

A cold has been steadily passed around since we travelled to visit my husband's family for American Thanksgiving so we'll likely be staying home from church to spare everyone else a miserable week or two.

It is impossible to list separately the many leaders in the Christian Church in Australia, of all denominations, who were so generous to me during my stay in their country; but I thank them with all my heart for all that they did to make my visit memorable and pleasant.

The last time I visited a church I had been going off and on for 3 months when a church staff member welcomed me ans asked me if it was my first Sunday.

If you believe you need to be part of an institutional church, by all means visit others and choose which would be the best fit for you.

One thing I noticed while in church for years and years is that people expected the pastor to visit the sick.

-- some missionaries may have a lifestyle that is more common to their home culture than appropriate, but I know many others that have made financial and personal commitments that impress me and should not be ignored; I think we should continue to honor that — the reality of the $ 10K that we all would want to invest in local evangelists often is only available after a «loo - see - visit» (or more) from a Western missionary who returns «home» for fundraising; that maybe sad, but is the reality — one serious issue to address in the African churches is the «colonialism» that is imposed -LRB-!)

On a visit to the UK for the Pioneer Church Leaders Conference in early 1996, they heard about the Pioneer «Partnership» structure and decided to use the model.

He wrote 14 encyclicals, made 748 visits to parishes in Rome and adjacent territories of which he was Bishop, created nine specially dedicated Years (for the Eucharist, for Mary, etc) and led the Church in a three - year preparation for, and eventualcelebration of, a Great Jubilee in the year 2000.

Millennials in particular tend to start their search for anything — be it a church or an apartment or even a date — on the Internet, so if your site is difficult to navigate and embarrassingly out - of - date, they may not bother to come for a visit.

Prominent Vatican reporter John Allen has published a piece in the National Catholic Reporter following the papal visit to Cuba entitled «Benedict XVI and the Lament of the Hawks,» about a supposed lack of conservative confidence in Benedict, which cites my recent piece for First Things, «Has the Church Gone Soft on Communism?»

EVERYONE takes turns helping to clean the church buildings, EVERYONE gives sermons, or teaches classes, or helps with music if they have a musical background, helps prepare and send meals to members who are sick, helps other members when they move, helps set up the tables and put the food out for gatherings, visits other members on a monthly basis to find out if they need help with anything.

Canadian police have issued an arrest warrant for Monsignor Carlo Capella, accusing him of accessing, possessing and distributing child pornography during a visit to an Ontario church over Christmas.

In particular, we may note that there are three points at which the Kingdom teaching of the synoptic tradition tends to differ both from Judaism and from the early Church as represented by the remainder of the New Testament: in the use of the expression Kingdom of God for (1) the final act of God in visiting and redeeming his people and (2) as a comprehensive term for the blessings of salvation, i.e. things secured by that act of God, and (3) in speaking of the Kingdom as «coming».

He visited the church earlier this year, preaching to a warm and receptive crowd as part of a tour for his latest book, What We Talk About When We Talk About God (Collins).

And what type of church institution seems to work the best for you, and why (small group; lecture series; visiting the sick; etc.)?

For more information and to sign your church up to the initiative visit premier.org.uk / SocietySunday

According to this story in the LA Times, each hour - long episode of the show — which will debut in 2014 — will «visit a different congregation at churches across the U.S. in order to find the perfect romantic partner for a preselected single person» (a person, who, presumably, has not kissed dating goodbye).

Commenting on the visit, His Grace Bishop Angaelos, General Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the UK, said: «It has been a blessing for the Coptic community here in the United Kingdom to engage with their shepherd.

I have to say all you RV people, I never had a better church experience in my entire life then when I came to visit you guys for a year.

I suggest that you all that like the band wagon of criticizing Christianity to visit a Pentecostal Church and experience the God you don't understand, I will continue to pray for you all.

In his recap of the visit, he urged the Church «to re-propose the sacrament of matrimony as a gift and indissoluble commitment between a man and a woman, the natural environment for the welcoming and education of children.»

Schools could recognize faculty members for effective committee service as well as for teaching and research; churches could honor those who pray and visit as well as those who preach and sing; families could praise helpful and encouraging children as well as the athletic or beautiful.

In São Paulo I visited a magnificent health clinic for low - income people that was sponsored by a Pentecostal church, and I visited another congregation that sends out 12 buses every night filled with members who offer soup and blankets to people living on the streets.

My church had succumbed to writer Richard Rohr's prediction, «When the church is no longer teaching the people how to pray, we could almost say it will have lost its reason for existence,» Yet in the congregations I have visited, silence, meditation and contemplation were commonplace, and many new members testified to the spiritual attraction of prayer.

We examine the reception he is likely to get, and significance of his visit for all parts of the church in this country...

His review touched on other points to be discussed below and ended with an invitation to join him «in thanksgiving for the encouraging results of this apostolic visit» in the prayer that it «produces abundant fruits for the Church in the United States and all the world.»

The World Youth Day is the best gathering for all the young people form all over the church to be united and to increase their faith ~ The visit of His Holiness is the presence of God, I think this person whom protest is a bit too sensitive or he doing this on purpose to make the situation chaos!

At the mid-point of the Decade, the WCC initiated a project of ecumenical Team Visits - Living Letters - to every member church, for the first time in its history on a single major ecumenical theme.

We visited a village where 10,000 people were slaughtered inside a church where they had fled for refuge.

When a delegation from the United Presbyterian Church of the United States visited Brazil in 1977, we had the opportunity to have a long interview with the missionary Manoel de Mello, now deceased, who was the founder and president of the Brazil for Christ Church, one of the largest Pentecostal denominations in the country.