Drawing on insights from theology, environmental philosophy, economic history, geography, and political theory, the project will enable eco-congregations to clarify and re-imagine their vision of the future.
Religious leaders and people in congregations often find that knowing more about the ways in which their own congregation compares with other congregations enables them to understand better their own experiences, situations, and practices.
Yet until recently, the charity of the church's largely immigrant, low-income congregation enabled the pastor, Alex Gyasi, to run an impressive schedule of after-school classes, a youth club, a cooking club and an in-house digital TV channel used to inspire young people to debate current affairs.
Congregations look for elders who have a mature enough understanding of scripture to enable them to supervise the minister and to teach, as well as to perform "governance" functions.
However, they need encouragement and training to enable them to more effectively harness their position for HIV prevention and to control programs and activities among their congregation to thereby play a crucial role in the war against HIV/AIDS in Nigeria.
Hagioscope, also called squint, in architecture, any opening, usually oblique, cut through a wall or a pier in the chancel of a church to enable the congregation in transepts or chapels, from which the altar would not otherwise be visible to witness the elevation of the host (the eucharistic bread) during mass.
Because of the remoteness of the altar from the congregation, a second altar was erected between the parclose screens (extensions forward from the ends of the rood screen) to enable a more intimate celebration of the Eucharist.
From a practical standpoint, atheists almost entirely lack the communal infrastructure of religious people — the system of congregations, the pattern of weekly meetings — that enables philanthropy.
The NCS-II was conducted in 2006, enabling us to see trends over time in American congregations and gather data on topics not explored in 1998.
However, more than half believe their congregations to be challenged by the tasks of embracing change and enabling members to use their gifts to serve the church and community.
She tells her congregation that in order to get rich, they need to contribute generously to her ministries, then those gifts will be turned into "seeds" which will grow aggressively as some type of cash money vegetation in their wallets, enabling them to give more next time, and so on.
