Sentences with phrase «working with the local church»

Leo said World Vision staff in Mexico has been working with local churches to assess the needs of families worst affected.

It said that national and state officials from the denomination were working with the local church to overturn the policy.

A commitment to working with local churches necessarily limits the scope of Compassion's reach.

During filming, Baker was introduced to Hope 192, a Christian nonprofit that works with local churches to help the hidden homeless along Osceola County's Rt. 192 corridor.

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Atlanta About Blog A Christ - centered, tax - exempt corporation intent on changing U.S.foster care, FaithBridge Foster Care works with the local church to solve and take ownership of its community's foster care crisis.

Atlanta About Blog A Christ - centered, tax - exempt corporation intent on changing U.S.foster care, FaithBridge Foster Care works with the local church to solve and take ownership of its community's foster care crisis.

Working with local churches and community organizations to offer services and resources to persons in need of professional counseling (see our SOURCE Page).

Atlanta About Blog A Christ - centered, tax - exempt corporation intent on changing U.S.foster care, FaithBridge Foster Care works with the local church to solve and take ownership of its community's foster care crisis.

Not exact matches

But in the early primary state of South Carolina, with voters scheduled to go to the polls on Saturday and candidates working the state furiously this week, local evangelical pastors are using their influence to rally church members towards salvation, not electioneering.

We're seeing churches coming forward offering foster placements, offering homes... people want to work with local government to enable refugees to come and find a home here.

* Within hours of a disaster, the Church works with local government officials to determine what supplies and food are needed.

During their time in Santo Domingo, they were deeply impressed by IJM's work — namely, the organization's cooperation with local officials and churches to better engage in the fight against the nation's booming sex trafficking industry.

When she's not writing creative non-fiction, short stories, and poetry, Erin spends her time working on her Masters of Arts in Urban Studies online through Eastern University, fighting for the last carrot in the house with her two rabbits, Bug and Sage, and enjoying mentoring time with local youth both in and out of church settings.

We are working with a group of local believers to plant a church in the city, with a vision for transformation guiding us from the very start.

Thereafter Greek Catholics actively sought to attract co-religionists dissatisfied with the Hellenic domination of the local Orthodox church; and during the 19th century various Catholic groups engaged in missionary work among the Arab Orthodox.

«But we're actually interacting with people at a local authority level and trying to encourage people in the church to talk about not just the message they're hearing... but also the work that the church is doing and why we're doing it.»

The 134 - page book comes with a workbook and guide to help local churches get more effectively involved in welfare that works.

In view of such insensitivity, some local churches refuse to cooperate with mission teams, and insist on working only with those development and evangelistic practices that empower the poor without exposing them to the embarrassing rich.

«We've worked closely with local churches to serve people's practical needs, thus both opening hearts to hear God's message of love and bringing hope back to the fearful people of Slovyansk».

Some of this makes for moving reading: the archbishop arriving somewhat warily to see the work, and the group singing psalms with him; a local church made available for regular Masses; the work spreading to Italy and specifically to a poor area on the outskirts of Rome.

By working with area churches, Compassion is able to provide the aid it promises to children while equipping local churches to carry out the faith - based element of their mutual mission, effectively absolving Compassion of any accusations about untoward proselytism.

While congregations and other types of society possess obviously different intentions, they nevertheless work through analogous forms of culture in which a local church might recognize its deeper solidarity with other human groups.

We need leaders who are willing to develop the expertise and accept the responsibility for working with a group of persons in the local church to cultivate patterns of decision - making that lead to a greater acceptance of the church's mission in society.

Their lauded sponsor - a-child program works in cooperation with local churches to provide holistic health and education to children of all religious backgrounds.

In doing so, there are many occasions in which my church, like other churches seeking to serve those who are hurting, works together with local counselors and other agencies to bring healing to people.

Although Francis almost certainly will not call for ditching the Church's policy of denying communion to Catholics who have divorced and remarried, his emphasis on pastoral care and compassion could offer local priests a work - around, with greater flexibility to address individual circumstances.

A large cross outside at a church nearby was draped with white fabric, symbolizing «Resurrection» while the local paper ran pictures of rescuers working around the clock to recover the dead in the rubble of the bombed building.

For those who want to cooperate with member churches bilaterally, for regional and local works with smaller scale, the CCI is ready to mediate to find proper partners.

Almost 40 percent of the local Indian churches that Compassion partnered with are still working with the children, albeit without the financial support.

«Bigness» is, moreover, a «powerful evangelistic tool «28 and provides the resources necessary for effective programs of worship and ministry.29 The local church is here viewed as a mechanism with the capacity for greater or lesser efficiency in doing the work of God.

One was the work of a sociologist, Earl Brewer, who, with the aid of a theologian and a ministries specialist, sought by an extensive content analysis of sermons and other addresses given in a rural and an urban church to differentiate the patterns of belief and value constituting those two parishes.67 The second was the inquiry of a religious educator, C. Ellis Nelson, who departed from a curricular definition of education to envision the congregation as a «primary society» whose integral culture conditions its young and old members.68 James Dittes, the third author, described more fully the nature of the culture encountered in the local church.

Letter after letter accused the local church of being dry, unfriendly, cold, not filled with the Spirit, unbiblical, works of Satan, dead, or dying.

Those meetings — so filled with joy and the hope of deliverance from Mr. Charlie — and our daily work with the local blacks came as close to the church of the Book of Acts as I've ever been privileged to see.

There is no local tradition or historical evidence connecting Thomas with the Parthian empire proper; but it is very probable that Thomas worked in Basra and its neighbourhood on his way to India and the first contact of the Indian church was with the church in Basra (Fais), the name of Thomas linking them together.

Together with his wife Helen, he has played a leading role in growing the church and has worked closely with local community groups, including the Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Winchester Prison and the University of Winchester.

Bob Roberts, Pastor of Northwood Church in Keller, Texas, thinks so, and worked with local Jewish and Muslim leadership to pull off a three day «trialogue.»

After working closely with World Relief in the Democratic Republic of Congo, this Christian relief organization that works directly through local churches has opened an office in Jordan to serve both Syrian refugees and displaced Iraqis.

I was raised in church and always loved the Lord but after beeing working with YWAM for nearly 10 years I always felt there is more than what you find in a local church.

Here, we talk to Laura Blank of World Vision, who is working in the country, about barriers to rebuilding, how WV partners with the local church and how the Haitian people are receiving emotional care beyond the basics.

If the paid - time broadcasters see themselves as being complementary to the local church, as they claim to do, there is little evidence of a genuine effort on their part to develop a working relationship with the churches, particularly in the area of ongoing care.

(14) Other studies also raise questions about the durability of the changes effected on people through these programs, even when the programs seek to work in close conjunction with a local church.

He has just been made a local missionary at a church plant in north London and, working with the Message Trust's Eden community, has moved his family to a local estate to reach out to underprivileged young people.

Such consultation may occur at many levels: consultation to pastors concerning problem clients with whom they are working; consultation to a pastor and the church administration regarding human relation problems in the congregation; consultation to groups or programs in a congregation that are designed to assist people in the church; consultation to a local, regional, or denominational administration in regard to evaluation of religious candidates, human relations problems in the administration, or denominational programming related to mental health issues; consultation to a group of churches who sponsor a joint community program.

This inability of mass communication to stimulate formation of novel relationships with the church has been demonstrated in several other studies of mass campaigns, even when the campaigning organization works closely with the local churches.

For that part of the population still «unchurched» there was Billy Graham, who worked carefully with local church federations in an effort to channel new converts into a «church home.»

As the Catholic bishops say, local church groups can help by working «creatively and in partnership with other private and public groups in responding to local and regional problems.»

Each year, members of the Connecticut Elks Association work with local Safe Kids coalitions to host safety events at schools, churches, Fire Departments, Police Departments and elsewhere.

My local volunteer activities include working with my children's schools and with Families First Rhode Island as well as serving on the boards of Kappa Kappa Gamma Alumnae Association of Rhode Island and at our church.

THE BIBLICAL PATTERN FOR CHURCH IS THIS: Every Christian should gather together to hear the Scriptures and worship Jesus together with other believers weekly (see Acts 20:7; 1 Corinthians 16:2; Acts 2:42; Colossians 3:16; 1 Corinthians 16:19; Colossians 4:15; Romans 16:5; Acts 20:20; James 2:2; Psalm 84:4; Psalm 37:17; Psalm 92:13) It is also good to meet for smaller groups of Christian community in each other's homes regularly (see Acts 2:46) It's good to have leaders overseeing the work and needs of each local church — this is the Biblical pattern — not all of us are called to church leadership, and so we should submit to, and serve whoever God has called to lead at the place we find ourselves (see Acts 14:23; Titus 1:5; Hebrews 13:7, 17; 1 Timothy 5:17; 1 Thessalonians 5:12 - 13; Philippians 1:1 b; Ephesians 4:11 - 12; 1 Corinthians 12:28; 1 Peter 5:1 - 2; Acts 20:17;) If there are believers who are unable for physical reasons to attend a church weekly, they should find a church or believers who will gather together with them regularly for worship in their ownCHURCH IS THIS: Every Christian should gather together to hear the Scriptures and worship Jesus together with other believers weekly (see Acts 20:7; 1 Corinthians 16:2; Acts 2:42; Colossians 3:16; 1 Corinthians 16:19; Colossians 4:15; Romans 16:5; Acts 20:20; James 2:2; Psalm 84:4; Psalm 37:17; Psalm 92:13) It is also good to meet for smaller groups of Christian community in each other's homes regularly (see Acts 2:46) It's good to have leaders overseeing the work and needs of each local church — this is the Biblical pattern — not all of us are called to church leadership, and so we should submit to, and serve whoever God has called to lead at the place we find ourselves (see Acts 14:23; Titus 1:5; Hebrews 13:7, 17; 1 Timothy 5:17; 1 Thessalonians 5:12 - 13; Philippians 1:1 b; Ephesians 4:11 - 12; 1 Corinthians 12:28; 1 Peter 5:1 - 2; Acts 20:17;) If there are believers who are unable for physical reasons to attend a church weekly, they should find a church or believers who will gather together with them regularly for worship in their ownchurch — this is the Biblical pattern — not all of us are called to church leadership, and so we should submit to, and serve whoever God has called to lead at the place we find ourselves (see Acts 14:23; Titus 1:5; Hebrews 13:7, 17; 1 Timothy 5:17; 1 Thessalonians 5:12 - 13; Philippians 1:1 b; Ephesians 4:11 - 12; 1 Corinthians 12:28; 1 Peter 5:1 - 2; Acts 20:17;) If there are believers who are unable for physical reasons to attend a church weekly, they should find a church or believers who will gather together with them regularly for worship in their ownchurch leadership, and so we should submit to, and serve whoever God has called to lead at the place we find ourselves (see Acts 14:23; Titus 1:5; Hebrews 13:7, 17; 1 Timothy 5:17; 1 Thessalonians 5:12 - 13; Philippians 1:1 b; Ephesians 4:11 - 12; 1 Corinthians 12:28; 1 Peter 5:1 - 2; Acts 20:17;) If there are believers who are unable for physical reasons to attend a church weekly, they should find a church or believers who will gather together with them regularly for worship in their ownchurch weekly, they should find a church or believers who will gather together with them regularly for worship in their ownchurch or believers who will gather together with them regularly for worship in their own home.