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An agape feast or lovefeast [b] is a term used for various communal meals shared among Christians. [2] The name comes from the Greek word ἀγάπη (agape), which implies love in the sense of brotherly or familial affection. Agape meals originated in the early Church and were a time of fellowship for believers.
Drawing on ideas taken from other pastors, especially Presbyterian Theodore L. Cuyler from Brooklyn, Clark shaped the concept of "youth ministry" by asking young people in his Williston Congregational Church to sign a two-sentence pledge described in his book published in 1882, The Children and the Church, and the Young People's Society of ...
These congregations generally accept the description "non-institutional", although they do not officially identify as such on signs, letterhead, or other official documents; some consider pejorative the epithet "anti" with which they have been called by some in the usually larger mainstream Churches of Christ since the 1950s and 1960s, and likewise the similar term, "non-cooperative". [5]
Newark Advocate Faith Works columnist Jeff Gill continues his miniseries on shredded chicken sandwiches, tracing their roots through church events.
Good News Club is a weekly interdenominational Christian program for 5-to-12-year-old children featuring a Bible lesson, songs, memory verses, and games. [1] It is the leading ministry of Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF), which creates the curriculum, translates it into different languages for use around the world, and trains instructors to teach it.
When Martin Scorsese was a child growing up in New York City in the 1940s and 50s, he spent a few years serving as an altar boy at the Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral, the Catholic ...
As children, Berger and her sister experienced extreme starvation and dehydration. “I cannot put anything in my mouth because my tongue was bleeding. We couldn’t swallow for hours,” she said.
Koinonia is a transliterated form of the Greek word κοινωνία, which refers to concepts such as fellowship, joint participation, partnership, the share which one has in anything, a gift jointly contributed, a collection, a contribution.