Stories From The Church

As a young woman, she felt sorry for the factory girls in her town and, with several friends’ support, started a church for them. This work progressed as almost four hundred women and girls attended her daily meetings, but she knew her calling was even bigger than this.

In addition, going to the baptist church made me realize that no matter what your culture is, humans all want the same things. People want a sense of meaning and purpose, and to feel inspired, hopeful, unconditionally loved, accepted, and uplifted. People want to have an understanding of who they are, and what that entails. When people are feeling scared and insecure about the present and future, they demand explanations for the unknown, or the difficult elements of their life. Furthermore, people need order, structure, and security in their lives by being told what they should think/believe, how they should behave. People also seek a sense of belonging and community. Overall,it doesn’t matter if you’re Jewish, Christian, Caucasian, or African American, at the end of the day, humans generally all want the same thing, but just have different ways of showing it or expressing it.

Church, temple, sanctuary, or the Lords’s house, these are just a few names that your average person might call the place you come to worship God, I have always called it home. The Church I have been attending, Memorial Baptist Church, which is also where I attend high school, I have been attending since I was the age of three years old. Moving to the area that my family lives in now, I do not believe is any accident. At the age of two years old, my father was stationed in Tennessee for the military. After passing away from brain cancer, my Mother moved my two older sisters and me to Killeen Texas, to be closer to her family. Memorial Baptist Church was the only church we have ever been members of since moving to Texas, it has always felt like

"He did not think that he was a good person and did not want him around his church," Tackitt said of the pastor. "But he said, 'How do I run him away from my church?'"

She talked about a number of high-profile preachers and the scandals they were involved in just in the last couple years. Even more than the pastors, she said she was intrigued by the congregations. "I have always been amazed by congregations who defend their pastors and remain faithful to the church after major scandals break out. They agree to allow church funds to go toward paying out settlements to accusers with solid proof of the actions. It is like they can do no wrong in the eyes of many, and their church members will support all of their cheating, lies, and even molestation of people right there in the church. A lot of them are regarded as gods to the point where people lose sight of the real Higher

help within this new church. At first my brother and I didn’t like the idea of moving away from

Sadly, there plan to leave was actually a trap and they were turned in to authorities because it was illegal for them to leave the country. They soon were released from the authorities and decided it they weren’t able to run away they could just reform the church.

Julie Jones is a single parent. She lives with her children, eleven-year-old Eric and seven-year-old Stella. He ex-husband, Brad, pays child support regularly but does not spend much time with his children, even though he shares custody of them with Julie. She has a full-time job at the local university. When she is not working, her time is devoted to her children--helping them with schoolwork, driving them to soccer practice and games, taking them to music lessons and play dates. Feeling overwhelmed by all her responsibilities, Julie asks to speak with you, her pastor, about her situation. She is feeling increasingly resentful and angry with her ex-husband for not being more involved in the children's lives. Eric has been getting into trouble

Josh and I put the flags out for Trinity Baptist today and we couldn't find one of the holes for the flags. We may have just missed it but there was an indention in the ground where it could have been where it seems to be caked in mud. We will pick them up at the end of the meeting tomorrow.

After the former pastor left this church, some people left this church, or some who still remain have struggle and anxiety. As I read Lee and Dias’s article, I assume, since the members do not recognize their identity as Christian and member of HMPC (Hamilton Mill Presbyterian Church), the people left or have struggle.

Throughout my time with the Methodist church, I have experienced great opportunities and also many challenges. My family and I have been taught by a man who I think to be one of the most godly men I have ever met. Reverend Felder has always had a positive outlook on St. Luke UMC future even through trials and adversity. In fact, I truly think the Lord used him to save St. Luke because when he became pastor the city of Augusta had the land the church occupied labeled a future parking lot. However Felder had a vision for the church and the vision included having the sanctuary packed with families from the neighborhood of Harrisburg. The church is now an entity in the neighborhood that it was not before Reverend Felder came, and while is has a

Church and Religion in the Songs of Innocence and Experience Throughout “Innocence” and “Experience,” many poems incorporate religious views and imagery. Blake presents many contradicting views on the Church and religion, the contrast being particularly clear between “Innocence” and “Experience.” Within the “Songs of Innocence” a child-like portrayal of Church and religion is portrayed.

There is no right and wrong; everything is relative: there are no absolutes, everything is relative to the emerging church.[10] The emerging church leaders consider fundamentalist, orthodox church and worship service with hymns as stagnant and failing to interact with and impact the culture. They see to resovle that by shedding themselves of traditionalism (which they see as modernism( and adapt to the culture.[11]

Since the day I was born my parents took my sister and me to church ever Sunday. I grew up in a loving Christian home and was encouraged at an age where I could fully understand, to purse a relationship with Jesus. I accepted Christ into my heart when I was in the second grade and was baptized in the fourth grade at age 10. Growing up I have always been super involved in Church. I have a heart for people and love serving. Since 3rd grade until now, my senior year of high school I have been on the leadership team with my youth group. I can not imagine my life without Jesus as the center. I have been pushed to step out of my comfort zone and because of that I have grown in several different ways. For example, I am an extrovert and enjoy getting new people, but never liked public speaking as I felt nervous and intimidated. By the many adult leaders, and pastors coming along side of me and encouraging me to step of on my comfort zone I now highly enjoy speaking and spreading the truth about The Lord in big groups of people. I am so thankful for the many God loving people that have come in my life and helped stretch me. Jesus is my entire life and I am nothing without him.

In my life I have never been a person to attend church or religious ceremonies. I have gone twice to church and I personally didn’t like because I think that one doesn’t need to go to church to worship god. I believe that as long as you have faith god would never abandon you. My experience in the Jehovah`s Witness ceremony was very interesting because they are very similar to Christianity but their believes are different.