Sentences with phrase «visiting churches with»

The New Jersey lawmaker continued campaigning for Jones on Sunday by visiting churches with the candidate in Birmingham.

You've told a story before about visiting a church with a community of people with Down's syndrome.

One day this young girl from Japan visited our church with her host parents son.

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She ended a 2009 visit to China by attending services at a state - sanctioned church, having a conversation with women's rights activists and doing a short Web chat.

I visited churches filled with new believers, many who came out of animist or Buddhist upbringings, often alone in their families, to confess faith in the risen Christ.

I know they're out there, because I interact with them every single day through my blog and through the churches, colleges and conferences I visit.

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?

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.

Fundamentalist Mormons believe that Taylor shared this message with church officials who visited him.

Today we visited a local church that seems to be in love with Jesus and the retiring pastor has just handed the church over to his 46 yo son to pastor.

«Through the UK - Sudan Strategic Dialogue, and our policy of phased engagement, we continue to raise human rights issues with the government of Sudan and make regular representations on freedom of religion or belief, including in relation to reported church demolitions, most recently during the Archbishop of Canterbury's visit to Sudan in July.»

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

By visiting the sick, organizing the church and developing an urban ministry, the pastor imbued the members of the congregation with a new sense of confidence in their value to one another and, in particular, to the neighborhood.

John Paul is apocalyptic, obsessed with martyrdom and with the Virgin Mary, and, worst of all, self - important: «The pope himself seems to think the whole church depends on him — on his being saved by the Virgin of Fatima, on his living into the new millennium, on his visiting every Marian shrine, on his Stakhanovite canonizing, on his re-definitions of every truth, on his creating a like - minded episcopate....

Like the part about women - blaming and shaming combined with the pastor digging up offenses from the past, referencing an emotional distance he feels from us as we leave, citing his own pastoral involvement and authority in the decisions of our lives up to this point, threatening to talk to the pastor of the church we're visiting to share his «concerns,» and suggesting that I'm just a weak mess of emotions and that's why I can't handle the life - sucking horror that has become sundays at this church.

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.

Do not truth and love, held together, compel us to address our division with an invitation to the Mormon church to cease her attempt to redefine Christianity and instead visit Nicaea?

So it came as a bit of a shock to recognize that the churches we were visiting during our search had a different feel, a different sense of community and welcoming that we recognized as being part «Christian» and part «white» but did not fully resonate with us.

The illustrations show no scenes from the Pope's childhood, but simply views of the churches and towns visited, and the only pictures of the Holy Father are those with — yes, here they are again — our author and her friend well to the fore.

As with the Cowboy Church I visited in Plano, The Dirtbags met in a bar.

His concerns about what is going on in the churches he visited with Jim are similar to many of the concerns I have.

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.

True story: I visited a church some time ago with a friend.

I am not about to equate visiting a church building with idol worship, but I do think it is important to recognize that people can worship and follow God just as well outside of the four walls of a church building than they can inside the walls — and maybe even better.

They gathered in this district, first to plant a cross and then later, after bloody fights with the State and its forces, to build a church — a church which is due to the sweat and resistance of the workers — as Pope John Paul expressed it at his first visit to his home country.

The church I worship and serve with teaches that we are a part of the redemption plan, and that when we feed the hungry, visit the prisoner, and clothe the poor we are following the Christ whom we profess to be our savior.

Undaunted by criticism, or even cease - and - desist letters from his superiors, he continued to preach with excellent results, adding thousands to the rolls of churches in the regions he visited.

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.

Lydia, another Open Doors representative, recently visited a church in Erbil that is supporting 260 families, with 216 families living in the church courtyard.

Continuing our Living Churches series, Patrick Forbes visits a small church with a big heart and «Chas and Dave» style worship location.

On visits to Key West and Cuba, he identified the tropical color of life with the Latin churches he visited.

After visiting a Lutheran church in New York in 1908, Stevens would complain, after the fashion of Santayana, at how «impoverished» its interior seemed in comparison «with the wealth of symbols, of remembrances» the Catholic Church has created to give material expression to its schurch in New York in 1908, Stevens would complain, after the fashion of Santayana, at how «impoverished» its interior seemed in comparison «with the wealth of symbols, of remembrances» the Catholic Church has created to give material expression to its sChurch has created to give material expression to its spirit.

Benedict's Spain visit coincides with a weeklong series of religious events that the Roman Catholic Church organizes every three years.

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.

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.»

A while back, when visiting a church, I wore jeans, a grey t - shirt with holes in it, and a baseball hat, just to see how I would be received.

I've visited churches and didn't come away with your opinion.

With the assistance of a grant, I visited dozens of rapidly growing churches associated with the Vineyard Christian Fellowship, Calvary Chapel and Hope Chapel and interviewed several hundred clergy and lay leadWith the assistance of a grant, I visited dozens of rapidly growing churches associated with the Vineyard Christian Fellowship, Calvary Chapel and Hope Chapel and interviewed several hundred clergy and lay leadwith the Vineyard Christian Fellowship, Calvary Chapel and Hope Chapel and interviewed several hundred clergy and lay leaders.

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.

For example, one church school has a social worker who, at the invitation of a teacher, visits that class to observe and work with a troubled child.

During his stay, Pope Tawadros will visit a number of significant Russian Orthodox churches and monasteries while also undertaking various official and pastoral engagements with the Coptic faithful.

«We spent a little time with Peter to decide on the form of the sculpture - it was important that it offered something to reflect upon as people enjoy the open space of our church grounds, or as they visit to remember a loved one.

It would be interesting to see a study on how people feel about a church after one or two visits, in terms of «are they made feel welcome», or just stared at with incredulity.

Pastor Bhim Nayak, head pastor of Banjara Baptist Church, and fifteen of his church members were singing Christmas carols and visiting with other Christian families when they were attChurch, and fifteen of his church members were singing Christmas carols and visiting with other Christian families when they were attchurch members were singing Christmas carols and visiting with other Christian families when they were attacked.

Today, the 75 - year - old cardinal heads the island's Roman Catholic Church, thrust into the spotlight perhaps more than ever with Pope Benedict XVI's visit this week to Cuba.

I'm going to visit this church again, just so I can get a few more questions answered («What's the deal with the birds?).

The authoritative word given by the Holy Spirit to the Church at the defining and pivotal moment of Vatican II nearly fifty years ago was especially «made incarnate» in Britain in September, 2010, during Benedict's apostolic visit: to seek unity with our separated brethren in the other Christian confessions, to affirm all that is good and true in secular culture without in any way watering down our witness to the truth of the fullness of the Christian faith, to declare without apology that the Catholic patrimony of faith and reason working in harmony remains a gift that the twenty - first century desperately needs if it is to avoid self - destruction, and which it neglects or dismisses at its own peril.

In his address to the bishops that afternoon, Francis thanked them for their unity with the Apostolic see and for «the unfailing commitment of the Church in America to the cause of life and that of the family, which is the primary reason for my present visit.»