Thus, in White Plains the joint congregations at the Memorial United Methodist Church and the Central Korean United Methodist Church have given up on the idea of a traditional vacation Bible school, deciding instead to have a weekend intergenerational school "because of the way people's lives function these days," said Bonnie Draeger, the unordained minister of education for the two churches.
On 21 March 1816, at the age of seven years, his parents prompted the baptism of Mendelssohn and his brother and sisters in a home ceremony by Johann Jakob Stegemann, minister of the joint Reformed congregations at Berlin's Jerusalem's and New Church.
The NCAN joined with the National Assembly of Religious Women (NARW) to issue a joint statement: "The Roman Congregation for Religious in their fear of losing 'authority' has ignored the principle of freedom of conscience".
We have created hundreds of programs in over 30 countries where imams and rabbis "twin" their congregations for joint prayer and conversation.
In 2007, the congregation began some joint programming with Anshe Sefard, New Orleans' only other remaining Orthodox synagogue, and in the summer hired Uri Topolsky as its new rabbi.
But the Minnesota program aims to take such ideas a step further, by crossing both denominational and racial boundaries to encourage a continuing schedule of joint activties between the different congregations.
Topolsky and Gates of Prayer's rabbi Robert Loewy also began learning together on Fridays, and the two congregations started scheduling joint programs.
Father Ambrose and I were planning a joint worship service for our congregations, and he wondered about the evening's focus.
Patten & his wife held joint ownership in the building, but the congregation was given to understand that they were simply acting as trustees.
Cummings, led a joint discussion of Picasso's "Guernica" with a minority congregation downtown, and took Hillary and her friends to hear a talk by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Chicago Sunday Evening Club.
He also holds joint ministerial standing in the Unitarian Universalist Associations of Congregations.
