Sentences with phrase «where area churches»

The director of a local pregnancy center told me about an event where area churches had combined to offer services that ranged from cosmetology to interview skills and financial education.

Not exact matches

Our son's family are members of a community church (Southern Baptist, more or less), where, last Sunday, the pastor preached on putting faith into practice, and pointed out that there are about 250 orphans living in our area.

While the Churches were seeking common grounds in missionary work and doctrinal discussion, they found an area where they could exert even greater co-operation — the life of working together in facing the social tasks of the Church.

A fellow Texan, the pianist Arizona Dranes played her music in COGIC churches in the Dallas - Fort Worth area in the 1920s where she connected with the Rev. Samuel Crouch who was the great uncle of Andraé Crouch.

In some areas, it is very common to be asked where you go to church (not «if»), and your answer can have a lot to do with your advancement, stagnation, or eventual extermination.

The area in which schools should have a very significant role to play (and where perhaps some Catholic schools currently underperform), is the promotion of a culture in which young people understand and engage with the Church's key teachings relating to sexuality and the inherent dignity of human life.

One of the most asked questions is, «In a world where the church seems to be declining in many areas, how they are bucking the trend?»

Another area where the church grew steadily was north Africa, at the time the granary of the Roman Empire.

Kuhns delineates five areas in Bonhoeffer's thought that hold particular fascination for Roman Catholics: (1) «his idea of community» (the church is the community where Christ is); (2) «his search for the true nature of the Church's authority» (in the concrete situations facing the church who can speak with authority about wrong or rchurch is the community where Christ is); (2) «his search for the true nature of the Church's authority» (in the concrete situations facing the church who can speak with authority about wrong or rChurch's authority» (in the concrete situations facing the church who can speak with authority about wrong or rchurch who can speak with authority about wrong or right?)

This area of primary prevention is one where the church must take the lead, for mental health services can not provide this type of normal everyday nurturance which everyone needs and without which people will run into emotional distress.

This can be especially tricky when we want to pray for a specific area: perhaps the area in which we live, or where our church is, or somewhere that has had a lot of problems recently.

Gunmen armed with grenades targeted Notre - Dame de Fatima Church on the border of the predominantly Muslim PK 5 area where 21 people were killed during clashes last month.

CNN: Gingrich meets with pastors in South Carolina The first stop on Newt Gingrich's three - day swing through South Carolina was a town hall - style event at a church in Summerville, where the rising GOP presidential hopeful answered questions from area pastors on a range of issues.

Feel free to look up where the local Mormon church is in your area and attend if you wish.

He wrote in a statement: «Particularly in areas where community resources have been stretched to the limit, the activities and services run by churches provide a lifeline to those in need, so it is important that we continue to champion the work our nation's churches continue to deliver locally on a national scale.»

If these churches hire a pastor and give them a job description, then it is fair and reasonable to give them a fair salary that is commensurate with the salaries of similar professions in the area where they live.

No matter that even in our own complex and secular day, when the old notion of «parish» as a particular area where people sleep and work has almost expired, the majority of people can still be ministered to by local churches for most of their lives if they are interested in the services of ministry.

But this is one area where churches are unusually effective.

But we can make life very miserable for said speakers by sit - ins / walk - arounds by their misguided church, hosing them down as firemen conduct fire drills in areas where these «speakers» spout their «stupidities», insti - tute a tax on all «houses of worthless worship» and sue them for false advertising of beliefs that are simply con games.

Thus, not only do we emphasize the positive and attractive aspects of the Pentecostal churches, but we also note questionable areas and those where there are differences of opinion.

I wish I could find a church in my area where I was as comfortable.

The early church recognized its limitations in this area and was able thus to be of influence where it counted.

My church is in an area where there are very few whites.

Craig i agree totally church should be a slice of heaven on earth that is where corporately as believers come into the prescence of God.Its good when worshiping the Lord to feel his prescence and to feel connected to others because of Jesus.We had our carol service yesterday i was involved in the choir we combined with other churchs in the area it was a good turnout and alot of fun singing as we celebrated the birth of Jesus.It really makes christmas for me.If we love Jesus that should spill out into every area of our lives.He is the one that impacts others through us as we rely on him daily.Merry Christmas to you and your family regards brentnz

My purpose is to nail down bluntly three areas where we Christians in North America are not doing much reflection these days: God's holiness, sound teaching, and capitalism in the church.

He was religious but there were not many churches in the remote areas where he lived.

After 4 years of volunteering in nearly every area they needed help, I got tired of defending this «church» where each week a paid choir sang, a paid orchestra played, and oh yes, a paid celebrity to draw people.

There are two areas in the creeds and confessions of the church where it has always been found.

Rev Amanda Digman of The Churches of St John the Baptist, Carlton and Colwick said: «We decided to get involved with Safe Families because we live in an area where there are people with needs.

In previous series of posts, we have looked at two areas where churches often spend too much time talking and not enough doing: Doctrinal Statements and Prayer Meetings.

Within a local area, numbers of churches will tacitly accept an ecumenical answer by simply pointing out that «signing» for the deaf is carried on at one or more specific churches in the city, and deaf members in a church where such signing is not practiced are in effect invited to the church where it is, even though that church may be of another denomination.

Immigration plays a significant role in the life of churches around the world, especially in certain parts of the United States near borders or in areas where refugees are being brought in from dangerous areas of the world.

Nine churches in the Houston area served as temporary shelters for the city until survivors could be moved safely to other venues, such as the downtown convention center where officials are coordinating relief efforts.

However, I really appreciated his chapters on Restoring a Personal Touch (chapters 15 - 16) as these seem to be some of the main areas where churches today are lacking.

In the British Virgin Islands, some churches where people were taking shelter had their roofs blown off, according to mogul Richard Branson, who owns two islands in the area.

In the West Brighton section of Staten Island, small groups of people walk across the street from the project buildings into the parking lot of New Hope Community Church, where they dodge basketballs whizzing by before congregating in a beautifully renovated building that was a staging area for an underground pit bull fighting ring up until a few years ago.

You could still see the scorched area above the church door where local whites had hurled a fire bomb.

Yet even in this area, where there is most to celebrate in the church's response, the metanoia has not gone far enough to contribute significantly to the long - term health of the oldline denominations.

But it represented yet again an area where the healthy God given desires were twisted into a thing of shame and guilt by my church and distorted my view of God as loving at all.

Rather than focus on areas where the Church and the LGBT Catholic community are still miles apart, I preferred to focus on possible areas of commonality.

In the area in which this subservience of the Church to the Roman state continued, Jesus had much less effect than in some regions where, because of the weakening or disappearance of that state, the Church obtained greater liberty.

We are glad to have been active in, and witnesses to, gradual and in some cases dramatic improvement in areas of Church life where we stood frm: most Catholic youth events now have the sort of liturgical and devotional style that at one time was almost unique to the annual FAITH summer gathering, and the new generation of priests has a vigorous approach to catechesis and to promoting the Church's message on marriage and family life.

The resurgence of Islam and the revival of Hinduism and Buddhism have restricted church growth in areas where those religions are dominant, but the churches are growing in South Korea and the Philippines.

A particular area of Christian growth was Uganda, which became a British protectorate in 1894, where Anglicans sent by the Church Missionary Society and the Roman Catholic Mill Hill Fathers both did much work.

Is there one thing you see as the biggest issue / blind spot for the church, an area where Christianity is failing to live up to its promise and purpose?

It has created the anomaly where programs considered to be «evangelical» in content appear more frequently in areas already high in religious interest, commitment, and activity: on Sunday mornings, in geographical areas of already high church attendance, and on stations recognized as being «religious» in content and format.

There are indeed situations in which withdrawal of missionaries may be in the best interests of the Christian mission — for instance, where the sociopolitical setup of a particular country or area is utterly contrary to the gospel and where the established church is identified with the status quo.

GCN has local groups you can connect with through our message board, but there may be other groups and / or affirming churches in your area where he might feel welcome.

Last year the news reports of the Pride Parade where I live showed a float with Christians who say they support LGBTQs, However, it also showed a church in the area where the floats and marchers line up that blocked off its parking lot and access to its property and posted people on the property who said the church objects to parade participants using the public street in front of the church.

Equally important, and again with the exception of the rackets, churches have been the only place in the area, in recent years, where marginal wage - earners and even unemployed persons could nevertheless watch capital accumulation occur and discover, in the end, that sums accumulated would be held at least partly for their collective disposal.