Word: pastoring
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...Sunday was in 1994. Leaders at Willow Creek Community Church, a congregation in the affluent Chicago suburbs where about 15,000 people worship each weekend, said that attendance wasn't great. This year, they decided to try "an experiment in decentralizing the congregation on Christmas morning," says senior pastor Bill Hybels. If you want to sing some carols and share the Christmas peace at Willow Creek on Dec. 25, you'll have to do it alone, out in the church parking lot. "In our community, people-particularly seekers who may not normally attend church-are more like...
...lighting seemed rather conventional in comparison with the unusual antics of the play, yet the costume design—including Subtle’s glittering and immensely gaudy ruby ring and the Anabaptist pastor Tribulation’s vampire-esque black cloak—was fitting, inventive, and deliciously extravagant...
...John Paul II was more than a kindly pastor. While Pope John Paul II shows his steel in butting heads with communists, it, like the ABC movie, glosses over the controversies and conservatism of his papacy. Women's role in the church gets maybe a minute's attention; contraception comes up only by allusion. In the end, both movies stick to what viewers can agree on (commies and Nazis, bad; love, good), while skipping much of the Pope's sometimes polarizing tenure as a leader--an unsurprising choice in treating a man literally on track for sainthood. As a result...
...collective resource.” Vijay Yanamadala ’07, HIC vice-chair, said the group also has a global mission. “In the past few years, so many hate crimes have been caused by misunderstandings about religions,” Yanamadala said. Don Larsen, the pastor at the University Lutheran Church and a representative from the House Harvard Square Homeless Shelter, agreed that HIC served a greater international pursuit. “The world’s peace is dependent upon people learning to respect one another’s religious peculiarities,” Larsen...
...focus so much energy on ministers and churches? "People forget that churches also have hospitals in Africa," Okaalet says. "Most of the mission-based hospitals are in the rural areas where governments cannot reach. Where the road for the four-wheel-drive stops, the pastor gets on his bicycle. Where the bike path stops, the pastor lays it aside and goes on foot...