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Dollhopf, Erica J. "Overall Congregational Vitality in the United Church of Christ: Predictors and Implications." Theology Today 78, no. 3 (October 2021): 225–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00405736211030249.
This article examines the predictors of overall congregational vitality in the United Church of Christ (UCC), a US mainline Protestant denomination of approximately 5,000 churches and 800,000 members. This analysis is based on data from the UCC version of the Faith Communities Today survey, which surveyed all UCC congregations in early 2020. An overall congregational vitality scale was created from survey questions; factors associated with congregational vitality were tested to see which ones had a statistically significant relationship with a congregation's level of overall vitality. Aspects of congregations that were significantly associated with overall congregational vitality included the fit between the pastor and congregation, innovative worship, racial diversity, and total number of participants, while the percentage of young adults, contemporary worship, founding year of congregation, percentage change in worship attendance over the past five years, current financial health of congregation, and percentage of female participants did not influence overall congregational vitality. This research may be useful for congregations seeking to maintain or increase their vitality and for researchers interested in identifying the components and predictors of congregational vitality.
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Harris, Helen, Gaynor Yancey, and Selena Steward. "Congregational Discernment: One Church Case Study." Religions 11, no. 1 (January 6, 2020): 27. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel11010027.
This case study reflects the congregational practices of members and staff within a congregation in the southwest of the United States which self-identifies as a congregation within the Christian tradition. The congregation has completed processes and procedures that resulted in the congregation self-identifying as a welcoming and affirming congregation to all people. A Master of Social Work intern was embedded for an academic year, as her field internship experience, in the congregation as part of the ministerial staff. The intern examined congregational and denominational processes that included difficult conversations, daily practices, and decisions with specific reference to LGBTQI+ issues as part of a national research study of Christian congregations determining inclusivity in their membership, governance, and leadership functions. The case study included participant-observation by the intern of the lived experiences of church leadership and members as a result of these conversations and decisions specific to the practices of a congregation with membership of approximately 700 people. Findings included a decision for affirmation and inclusion that resulted in the congregation being discharged from the denomination. There was significant impact on the ministry including the loss of membership and finances. Additionally, ministries of inclusion are enhanced as formerly marginalized populations are now central to the congregation.
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Permatasari, Lany Aprilia, Enny Dwi Oktaviyani, and Sherly Christina. "Rancang Bangun Website Majelis Jemaat GKE Bumi Palangka (MJBP) PHP dan MySQL." Journal of Information Technology and Computer Science 1, no. 1 (June 29, 2021): 69–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.47111/jointecoms.v1i1.2957.
GKE Bumi Palangka Congregation Council is the leader of the Church Congregation in Palangka Raya which houses four churches, of course, has a large accumulation of congregations. One of the duties and jobs of the GKE Bumi Palangka Congregational Daily Working Body (BPH MJBP) is to regulate the stewardship of the Church and to collect data on the congregation every year. The problems that exist in the Bumi Palangka GKE Congregational Assembly are the Jamaat's service system and the data has not been computerized and integrated and the lack of media to share or disseminate information that is in the Bumi Palangka GKE Congregational Assembly.
In designing the website of the GKE Bumi Palangka Congregational Assembly, themethod is used waterfall with stages, Requirements Definition, System and Software Design, Implementation and Unit Testing, Integration and System Testing, Operation and Maintenance. The software used in building this website is Visual Studio Code, MySQL, and XAMPP.
This website has been tested with blackbox testing which results in that the features on the website can run well. This MJBP Website Design was developed with the aim of planning, supervising, directing and delegating work to all service departments that have a relationship or coordination. As well as managing computerized church and congregation data so as to produce congregation information such as recapitulation reports
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Lefevor, G. Tyler, Jacqueline Y. Paiz, William-Michael Stone, Kiet D. Huynh, Hibah E. Virk, Sydney A. Sorrell, and Sierra E. Gage. "Homonegativity and the Black Church: Is Congregational Variation the Missing Link?" Counseling Psychologist 48, no. 6 (May 27, 2020): 826–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011000020918558.
The Black church in the United States has historically functioned as a bastion for civil rights; however, it may also be a source of pain and suffering for sexual minorities. To examine the influence of individual and congregational variables on attitudes toward same-sex sexuality in the Black church, we collected a sample of 219 participants from 15 randomly selected congregations. Results of three hierarchical linear models indicated that congregation- and individual-level variables emerged as equally important predictors of individuals’ attitudes toward same-sex sexuality. Individual-level religiousness and congregation-level education emerged as significant predictors of homonegativity. Our results suggest that congregations may play a role in enacting homonegative attitudes. We encourage counseling psychologists working with religious Black sexual minority clients to help clients consider characteristics of congregations (e.g., education) and individual religious practices (e.g., overzealous service attendance) that may signal homonegativity. We encourage further work examining the influence of congregational factors on congregants’ attitudes.
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Nurlaila, Nurlaila, and Nofal Liata. "RESPON MASYARAKAT TERHADAP JAMAAH TABLIGH: STUDI KASUS VILLAGE JAMIATUN ULAMA, LAM ILIE TEUNGOH, ACEH BESAR." Abrahamic Religions: Jurnal Studi Agama-Agama 1, no. 1 (April 27, 2021): 55. http://dx.doi.org/10.22373/arj.v1i1.9485.
Jamaah tabligh is an organization that was originally pioneered by Maulana Muhammad Ilyas, an 'alim who lives in the north of the Indian capital, New Delhi. In Indonesia, the tabligh congregation began to enter estimated in 1952. The tabligh congregation has genuine motivation, is passionate and has high dedication and sincerity in carrying out Islamic da'wah in society. Tablighi congregations are able to set a good example and even earnestly practice the Sunnah of the Prophet Saw in their daily life. The people of Jamiatul Ulama Village, Indrapuri District, Aceh Besar District have different views on the existence of the tabligh congregation. This study aims to determine how the views of the people of Jamiatul Ulama Village towards the tabligh congregation and the influence of the teachings of the tabligh congregation on the morals of the Jamiatul Ulama Village community. In this study the authors used field research methods (field research) with a qualitative approach that collected data through observation, interviews, documentation. The results showed that the view of the community towards the tabligh congregation was different, there were those who accepted it actively, passively and there were those who did not accept it. The reason they accept it is because of its excellent preaching, morals, and the growing presence of the tabligh congregation in the mosque. The reason for those who do not accept it is because the community views the tabligh congregation as new teachings, lazy to work. With the existence of the community's morality tabligh congregation, a lot has changed, the community is increasingly fond of performing acts of worship, congregational prayers are increasingly living in mosques, and an increasing number of congregations at mosques. However, social activities between the tabligh congregation and the community in Jamiatul Ulama Village are less well-connected.
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Sisk, Ronald D. "Preaching in a Congregational Context." Review & Expositor 100, no. 3 (August 2003): 375–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/003463730310000305.
This essay argues that good preaching is contextual, bound to and arising from the ongoing life of a particular congregation. The nature of congregational preaching is examined, and tasks by which preaching is contextualized are considered. Contextual preaching utilizes the language of a congregation's local culture. It applies the truth of Scripture to the particular issues resident in a congregation's life. It combines gentleness and nurture. All of this is enabled by the preacher sharing deeply the life of the congregation, its joys and its sorrows, enabling these realities and the Scriptural witness to be mutually interpreting.
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Doka, Kenneth J. "The Church and the Elderly: The Impact of Changing Age Strata on Congregations." International Journal of Aging and Human Development 22, no. 4 (June 1986): 291–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/w9d2-5kcd-gg4k-fmtj.
This study reports the results of a survey of forty-four Lutheran Churches in the New York metropolitan area. It describes present and projected services and programs churches offer to the elderly, specifically investigating the impact of changing age strata upon congregations. A significant relationship was found between proportion of the elderly within the congregation and the pastors' interest in developing specialized ministries to the elderly. There was also a significant relationship between the proportion of the elderly within the congregation and the pastors' interest in structural modifications of the church building. However, no significant differences were found between the proportion of elderly with the congregation and the actual programs and services to the elderly. This may be an indication that churches with high proportions of the elderly had less financial and congregational resources.
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Wolffe, John. "Transatlantic Visitors and Evangelical Networks, 1829–61." Studies in Church History. Subsidia 14 (2012): 183–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0143045900003926.
In June 1829 John Angell James, minister of Carr’s Lane Congregational Church in Birmingham, wrote to his friend William Wilson Patton, minister of a Presbyterian congregation in New York, thanking him for his congregation’s interest in the spiritual welfare of the British churches.
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Wiratama, Jansen, and Ririn Ikana Desanti. "Analysis and Design of Web-Based Information System for Church Congregations Case Study: Church BNKP Pewarta." Ultima InfoSys : Jurnal Ilmu Sistem Informasi 12, no. 2 (April 12, 2022): 115–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.31937/si.v12i2.2403.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, worship activities at the Church were limited. The lack of preparation and data collection on the congregations who visit to worship regularly every week increases the risk of transmission. It needs to be minimized and anticipated. One effort that can be made to reduce this risk is to collect data on the health condition of the congregation who will attend worship. The data collection process is recorded in writing on the attendance list. This requires an iterative approach to be updated and creates a build-up to the attendance record. In addition, media information about the BNKP Pewarta Church activities is not yet available. To overcome this problem, a congregational data collection information system is needed to store congregation data and provide general information about the BNKP Pewarta Church. In designing this Congregation Data Collection Information System, the design method used is the Web Development Life Cycle (WDLC). This information system website design can store Church congregation data and present general Church information.
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Huard, Samuel. "Decolonizing the convent: Transnationality, North–South domination and sisterhood among the Sisters of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary." Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 49, no. 4 (April 7, 2020): 564–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0008429820916157.
Transnational congregations are ambiguous and complex social spaces as they are both divided (notably around the North–South axis) and united (around a same charism, a same founding figure). This article seeks to understand how sisters from Quebec and Central America belonging to the same transnational congregation construct their interpersonal relations, given that they live in a social field marked by both North–South domination and religious sisterhood. Based on two months of fieldwork within the congregation at the Order’s mother house in Quebec and at some of its mission houses in Honduras, it explores this issue through a brief presentation of the history of the congregation and an analysis of the discourses of the sisters interviewed. It concludes that the intra-congregational relationships are rooted in the continuous negotiation between the verticality of North–South domination and the horizontality of sisterhood. In the present context of vocational decline, the congregation faces two options: to decolonize or to remain trapped in contradictions that could stop it from adapting to its new reality.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Congregation":
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Wallace, Layne. "Teaching congregations a theology of preaching helping the congregation hear preaching /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com.
Spindt, Judith A. "Motivating the congregation." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.
The Mariae Vitae Congregation was the first and possibly the most important missionary institution in Poland-Lithuania in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. According to the Rule of Mariae Vitae Congregation, it had to deal with religious and lay education of converted girls (mainly Jewish) and provide them with practical skills of work so they could establish in Catholic society. The innovatory social program of Mariae Vitae Congregation including education and financial help answered to possible problems of neophytes in Poland and Lithuania of that time. Die Maria Vitae Ordensgemeinschaft war die erste und vermutlich wichtigste Missionsinstitution im polnisch-litauischen Gebiet des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts. Gemäß ihrer Regeln war die Mariae Vitae Ordensgemeinschaft in der religiösen und Laienbildung von (vor allem jüdischen) konvertierten Mädchen tätig. Sie ließ ihnen praktische Arbeitsfähigkeiten angedeihen, damit sie sich in der katholischen Gesellschaft etablieren konnten. Das neuerungsträchtige Sozialprogramm der Mariae Vitae Ordensgemeinschaft, das finanzielle und Bildungshilfe miteinschloß, gab Antworten auf mögliche Probleme von für jüngst Konvertierte in Polen und Litauen dieser Zeit.
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Barbee, Mark Alexander. "Implementing discipleship in a local congregation." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1986. http://www.tren.com.
Warren, Truman John. "A congregation at mid-life, enlarging the vision of a congregation toward ministries of outreach and care-giving." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 1995. http://www.tren.com.
Hardaway, Gregory S. "Effectively pastoring a small inner city congregation." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2000. http://www.tren.com.
Kugle, Georgiana M. "Promise and contradiction in an integrated congregation." Chicago, Ill : McCormick Theological Seminary, 1996. http://www.tren.com.
Jordan, Mark A. "Pastoral leadership in multiple-congregation churches [microform] /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2004. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p100-0143.
Sims, David. "Acts of Congregation." In Development Delusions and Contradictions, 157–67. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17770-5_8.
Subramanian, Lakshmi. "Music for the Congregation." In Gandhi in India's Literary and Cultural Imagination, 44–50. London: Routledge India, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003145479-4.
Mamiya, Lawrence H. "6 Congregations within a Congregation." In The History of the Riverside Church in the City of New York, 279–344. New York University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814768648.003.0012.
Cook, James Daniel. "The Congregation." In Preaching and Popular Christianity, 167–96. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198835998.003.0007.
Chapter 7 turns finally to the implications of the previous chapters’ findings. Focusing on the issues of the social composition of the congregation and their level of commitment to (Chrysostom’s) Christianity, it is argued that sermon-texts are in their nature resistant to being used as sources for this kind of social history. Following Derek Krueger’s study of Byzantine liturgy, it is argued that sermons instead present how Chrysostom viewed his congregation, and how he wanted them to view themselves. How he addressed his congregation cannot be separated from his scripturally informed ecclesiology: for Chrysostom, his congregation are an instantiation of the Universal Church, the exalted body of Christ called to live a penitential life. His sermons can ultimately tell us only about his own construction of his congregation, though it is one which would in turn have gone some way to shaping the congregation’s own self-conception.
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Brenneman, Robert, and Brian J. Miller. "Ours until Jesus Comes!" In Building Faith, 32–58. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190883447.003.0003.
In four case studies of congregations in Guatemala, this chapter introduces and discusses the concept of building energy: the emotional energy that groups experience when undertaking a building project. In a country with an increasing number of congregations, it discusses: a Seventh-day Adventist congregation pooling their resources to purchase land and construct a cement-block church; a Pentecostal congregation that constructed a corrugated steel building on rented land but outfitted it with white ceramic tile floor, original artwork, and an impressive PA system; a Catholic church in an indigenous town that worked through conflict to construct a new sanctuary with the help of the community; and a non-denominational church that chose to design and build a structure themselves, using the project as a means of providing work and architectural apprenticeship for its young adults. Across the cases, the building projects brought church and/or community members together, even though the projects often revealed tensions over congregational identity.
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"THE CONGREGATION." In Going to Church in Medieval England, 140–96. Yale University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1t1kfhr.8.
"CONGREGATION PAPERS." In Bedford Moravian Church in the Eighteenth Century, 199–209. Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 1989. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2nv8p38.18.
Temkin, Sefton D. "Rabbi in Albany." In Creating American Reform Judaism, 44–51. Liverpool University Press, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781874774457.003.0007.
This chapter turns to Isaac Mayer Wise’s position in Albany and the congregation of Beth El. The relationship between Wise and this congregation began with acclamation and ended with violence. The tale has been told and retold, but it was Wise who was the literate figure among the combatants, and his version forms the basis of most of what has been written. At this stage one cannot determine whether Wise’s zeal for ritual reform and the congregation’s narrowness was the cause of the breakup (as is usually assumed), or whether Wise’s self-assertiveness and the congregation’s insistence on maintaining its control was the basic reason. Rabbi–congregation relations still retain a considerable grey area in which the authority of one party as against the other is unsettled. How much more unsettled must the position have been when communal organization was in its infancy and had to grapple with the problems and reckon with the temperaments of members of an uprooted society.
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"Segregation and congregation." In Urban Social Geography, 183–204. Routledge, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315847238-14.
Akhlaghi, Mohammah, Mohamad Ali Khesali, Alireza Fathi, and Mohamadi Danyali. "Modified particle swarm optimizer with semi-active congregation." In 2011 International eConference on Computer and Knowledge Engineering (ICCKE). IEEE, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/iccke.2011.6413331.
Sajid, Muhamad, Ali Hassan, and Shoab A. Khan. "Crowd counting using adaptive segmentation in a congregation." In 2016 IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing (ICSIP). IEEE, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/siprocess.2016.7888363.
Atkinson, Colin, and Philipp Bostan. "The role of congregation in service-oriented development." In 2009 ICSE Workshop on Principles of Engineering Service Oriented Systems, PESOS. IEEE, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/pesos.2009.5068825.
Islam, A. K. M. Muzahidul, Koichi Wada, and Wei Chen. "Time-Efficient Data Congregation Protocols on Wireless Sensor Network." In 2011 International Symposium on Ubiquitous Virtual Reality (ISUVR). IEEE, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/isuvr.2011.13.
Zhao, Xiaojuan. "An Enhanced Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm with Passive Congregation." In 2010 International Conference on Machine Vision and Human-machine Interface. IEEE, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mvhi.2010.193.
Munoz, Daniel M., Carlos H. Llanos, Leandro dos S. Coelho, and Mauricio Ayala-Rincon. "Hardware Particle Swarm Optimization with passive congregation for embedded applications." In 2011 VII Southern Conference on Programmable Logic (SPL). IEEE, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/spl.2011.5782644.
Atkinson, Colin, Philipp Bostan, and Frederic Fink. "Reuse-Oriented Deployment of Software Components: Congregation in Service-Oriented Development." In 2009 Fourth International Conference on Software Engineering Advances (ICSEA). IEEE, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icsea.2009.19.
Qin, Guang, Feng Liu, and Lijuan Li. "A Quick Group Search Optimizer with Passive Congregation and its Convergence Analysis." In 2009 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security. IEEE, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/cis.2009.100.
Munoz, Daniel M., Carlos H. Llanos, Leandro dos S. Coelho, and Mauricio Ayala-Rincon. "Opposition-based shuffled PSO with passive congregation applied to FM matching synthesis." In 2011 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC). IEEE, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/cec.2011.5949966.
Ankishan, Haydar, Emre Oner Tartan, and Fikret Ari. "Square root unscented based FastSlam optimized by particle swarm optimization passive congregation." In 2013 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA). IEEE, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icma.2013.6617963.
Mulligan, Casey. The Backward Art of Slowing the Spread? Congregation Efficiencies during COVID-19. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w28737.
Mullen, Lincoln, John G. Turner, Jason Heppler, and Caroline Greer. Urban American Congregations. Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.31835/relec.citiesmap.
In the early twentieth century, the U.S. Census Bureau conducted surveys of American religious congregations every ten years and published reports on the data it collected. The Bureau categorized denominations into different denomination families, linking together churches that had shared history, theology, or practice. This interactive map displays congregations by denominations and denominational families in American cities, including places with 25,000 or more residents.
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Blank, Susan Blank, and Fred Davie Davie. Faith in their Futures: The Youth and Congregations in Partnership Program of the Kings County (Brooklyn, NY) District Attorney's Office. Philadelphia, PA United States: Public/Private Ventures, April 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.15868/socialsector.1994.
