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Local meetings are always subordinate to their area meeting, and in turn their yearly meeting. [10]: 4.32 Meetings for church affairs are also considered to be meetings for worship, meaning "they carry the same expectation that God’s guidance can be discerned if we are truly listening together and to each other". [10]: 3.02
What is Quaker Meeting for Worship? (Halifax, Canada Meeting's website) BBC Religion website: Quakers: Worship. Four Doors to Meeting for Worship by William P. Taber. See also a summary of William Taber’s Pendle Hill Pamphlet; Quaker Faith and Practice, Chapter 2 "Approaches to God – worship and prayer" of Britain Yearly Meeting
Philipp Jakob Spener published his Pia Desideria in 1675 and laid out his program for the pietistic revival of the Lutheran Church, emphasising the use of small groups. He suggested the reintroduction of "the ancient and apostolic kind of church meetings," held "in the manner in which Paul describes them in 1 Corinthians 14:26–40." Spener ...
In the United States, denominational contact with local assemblies or local church home small group meetings, i.e., cell churches, is facilitated by district superintendents, each of which is responsible for a large number of churches in a geographical region (such as Florida or the Northeast) or in a specialized language group (such as Spanish ...
A southwest Missouri school district has agreed to stop offering an official prayer during staff meetings after concerns were raised this fall.. The Freedom From Religion Foundation, a nonprofit ...
The board provides resources in the areas of Christian education, worship, music, evangelism, new church development, stewardship, lay leadership development, age-level (children, youth, adult) and family ministries, small-group ministries, ethnic local church concerns, devotional life, spiritual formation, anti-racism resources and other areas ...
Sometimes these groups meet because the membership is small, and a home is the most appropriate place to assemble until such time as the group has sufficient funds to rent a regular place to meet (as in the beginning phase of the British New Church Movement). Sometimes this meeting style is advantageous because the group is a member of a ...
In 2016, the church announced that each ward should hold a teacher council meeting once a month during the three-hour schedule of Sunday meetings. [12] Those attending teacher council meetings include everyone who teaches a quorum or class in the ward, along with at least one of the priesthood or auxiliary leaders responsible for those teachers.