She submitted to God and served faithfully at Bible Way Church of God in Christ. She served as a Sunday School Teacher for the Youth and Adults, the Adult Choir, the Missionary Department, Elders and Ministers Council President and also worked in the Youth Department. Throughout the years Missionary Elam has served in many departments at various locations. In Hawaii, as a member of Center of Deliverance COGIC she served as the Youth Choir director, Youth Praise Dance Leader, and also served on the Praise Team. In Hawaii, she experienced ministry at a different level while serving on the Hospitality Department.
(son) age 13, N.W. (daughter) age 10, M.W. (daughter) age 6, T.S., Jr (son) age 4, and G.S. (son) age 6 months. They are active members of a local church and are involved in the choir, dance ministry, and drama ministry.
Then I became accustom to going to church, and even in the summer time the church had summer programs that I attended all summer and they would feed us lunch and we would play games all day and this was like very special for me. When I grew up and got married, and had my own children, I found myself doing the same routines with them. Now that I live in New York, I searched for (2) two years to find a church group that reminded me of home. Once I did, I became a part and joined the church group, and to me it means a family away from family, and it makes me feel complete and safe that I have the group of people that relates to me on the level that I was accustom to when I was growing up. I can identify with the older people sitting on one side of the church and the younger generation sitting on the other side, I can identify with when someone needs a help and hand, the church group is there to fill in like a family for them.
Mormon Church On Sunday September 22 I went to the Mormon Church in order to observe the way they conduct their religious ceremonies. I stayed there for the whole entire program which consisted of 3 hours and in each hour a different activity was held. The first hour was held in the very center of the church known as the chapel. Families are seated and ready for the program by 10:00. I noticed that the people attending this church are predominantly white middle or upper class families.
According to Caner this presented Johnson with financial hardship as he had a wife and children that were dependent on him for food and shelter. Like any full time minister Johnson found himself at the mercy and totally dependent upon God. This did not detour Johnson from the ministry it allowed him to extend his ministerial abilities to a larger congregation that could support him and his family. It was 1811 when Johnson accepted the call to Savannah Baptist Church located in Savannah, Georgia where he would begin to face opposition and problems. For the first three years at Savannah things seemed to be going fine.
Apart from other sects of Christian faith, seen within the baptism with the Holy Spirit that enables them to live an empowered life. The empowerment is derived from applied subsets of the bible, which similar acts were often noted during the first five books of the New Testament (Apostles), they describe their “movement” as Apostolic. A described by Peter Adair(1967) the members of the Holiness Church in Scrabble, West Virginia are related in a manor of doctrine and worship, sharing a literal interpretation of the bible and an informality of approach. Meetings were held several times a week, lasting between four and six hours long. Durkheim’s views of “concept of the sacred” and “religious functionalism” of the social institution can be understood through the ritual of worship.
Throughout the book Grandma Joad is set up as an extremely religious woman, who is a faith warrior in their family. The family follows Christian practices such as praying before their meals, and also before bed. The Joad family members, though not ‘perfect’ Christians have a concrete belief in Jesus that holds them together. It is one of the many things that they all have in common. When a family member falls away from the ‘strait and narrow’ the family welcomes them back with open arms.
My wife and I have dedicated our lives to Him. We see His activity everyday all day. I believe He is calling me to become a pastor and to do His work. We see the blessings He bestows on people and how He has done that for us in our children and grandchildren. We see Him working through others in their ministry whether it be like the Billy Graham ministry, the different teachers through Liberty University Online teaching about the Bible.
N.C.F.C. also shows oneness by coming together @ 7:30 nightly to be together in the worship service. We all come to worship and honor the same God that’s able to bring us together, no matter what we are. If God was able to bring his disciples as one at the Last Supper. So that being said Bishop McNeal is able to gather his organization together.
Community involvement is very important. The best thing a person can donate is their time. It is every individual’s responsibility to help others in their community and beyond. For the past four years, I have gained experience through serving breakfast to the homeless at St. Andrew’s Church on the second Saturday of every month, preparing and teaching for Vacation Bible School, assisting special needs students, and acting as a teacher’s assistance for grade five, and seven classes, as well as grade eight classes. Through my experiences volunteering with children of various ages, as well as at-risk adults in the homeless community, I have discovered my passion for helping others.