Sentences with phrase «with smaller congregations»

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Faced with fewer priests and smaller congregations, where should our parishes and schools of the future be located?

I came out to our small Vineyard congregation in Ontario just over a year ago now, something that was precipitated by my realization that I was in love with my current partner.

Another factor is that the church was very small with an ageing congregation, which doesn't help in that situation either.

Apart from occasional local congregations, the most promising place to begin is with small educational institutions closely tied to the church.

Rachel serves Congregation Beth Israel, a small Reform - affiliated congregation in western Massachusetts, where she lives with her husband Ethan Zuckerman and their son.

Most are small and neighborly, with the pastor living in the same block as his congregation.

Shelbyville is a typical northern New England church: a small congregation of 120 members located in a town with 1,000 residents; many of the members are elderly, and finances are a constant concern.

That does make it difficult for small churches to support a pastor at a rate commiserate with his congregation's income.

«The only thing I can say to those of you who have been so patient, and have gone through so much, is for you to watch and look for any small changes with your loved ones, with your wards (Mormon congregations), with your leaders.

Deeply religious people, and they are a small minority in every congregation, have a personal relationship with a God they feel is as present in the church as the next person in the pew.

Not long ago, male clergy with a traditional family who were serving a small - to medium - sized congregation might have expected the conservative wing of their denomination to support them.

The mediator then told me that not one of their accusations showed any truth and he advised the pastor to cut ties with this group and said that the congregation was getting the impression that he was favoring one small faction of the church while disregarding others.

Indeed, an argument could be made that at no time since the First Great Awakening have so many churches of disparate denominational, theological and stylistic approaches been so united in terms of their music: one can now walk into old - line Pentecostal churches, small - town evangelical congregations, mall - like suburban megachurches, and many a mainline Protestant sanctuary across the country on any given Sunday morning and hear the same hymns and choruses done in approximately the same musical styles, with similar settings and instrumentation.

I concur with George Webber's conviction that a congregation in mission «will make basic provision for its members to meet in small groups (as well as corporate worship), not as a sidelight or option for those who like it, but as a normative part of its life.

The small family unit known as a nuclear family today is the typical family type of the modern era in Western cultures.1 During the last two hundred years, identity has been associated more with the family unit than with larger social units like a congregation.

As I stand before a small congregation to preach and pray I give thanks that others are filled with the same passions, questions, doubts, longings and joys.

In certain critical matters, the small and average - size congregations, acting in sincere covenant with the ABC, are hardly more independent of the actions of the ABC «headquarters» at Valley Forge than the communities of our nation are free of the actions of the bureaus of the federal government.

My home church, a big, flourishing congregation with lots of ministries, was once an old - style, small - town church.

My church family is a small (20ish on a Sunday) congregation of free thinkers who are OK with diversity in understanding who Christ is.

For over twenty years, Rabbi Sherre Hirsch has been sharing her intimate counsel and wisdom with people in all kinds of «pulpits,» ranging from her congregation at Sinai Temple in Los Angeles to the audience of the Today show to small Southern Baptist churches.

So... we continue to encourage Christian singles to do the hard work it takes to be in community — both within the larger congregation of the local church AND within a smaller group where they can truly be known and share with others.

The problem is for most people is time and the fact that often they attend churches with relatively small congregations — or even churches that are so big that it can be quite hard to really get to know people and their friends propely.

After that loss, Toller's wife left him; his assignment at the small First Reformed church upstate was given to him out of pity by Pastor Jeffers (Cedric the Entertainer, credited with his real last name of Kyles), who heads up the larger congregation nearby.

Look at one of the most effective and prolific arenas in which churches engage with their congregation: small group curriculum and discipleship courses.

While Neptunia VIIR's middle chapter concludes with a congregation of cast members, shifting between small teams during the bulk of the campaign feels like a prolonged exercise in delayed gratification.

In medieval times a squint was a small opening in the wall of a church that provided people with leprosy a way of peering in to see and hear the sermon without touching any of the congregation.

Small at First Parish in Cambridge said his congregation will discuss divesting its roughly $ 5 million endowment at its investment meeting next month, and said he has talked with several other Unitarian Universalist churches interested in following suit.