Decent Essays 514 Words 3 Pages Open Document First, I would like to congratulate the beautiful congregation of Mt. Zion Baptist Church for 150 blessed years of service to the greater Arlington community. I was born into this church, dedicated as an infant and baptized upon accepting Jesus Chri...
Being raised and only attending the Roman Catholic Church, I was nervous about attending a service for a faith to which I did not belong and which was not even part of my heritage. However, much to my surprise what I found instead was a religious ceremony with similar origins but ...
Infantry in the field have little use for calendars. The day of the week means nothing to a man who is on the job all seven days no matter what, and hasn’t seen Sunday church services in months. Prayers out here are whispered on the schedule of artillery barrages and frontal assaults...
Then I was left all alone on themourners,bench. My aunt came and knelt at my knees and cried, while prayers and songs swirled all around me in the little church. The whole congregation prayed for me alone, in a mighty wail of moans and voices. And I kept waiting serenely for Jesus,...
Then I was left all alone on the mourners,bench. My aunt came and knelt at my knees and cried, while prayers and songs swirled all around me in the little church. The whole congregation prayed for me alone, in a mighty wail of moans and voices. And I kept waiting serenely for Jesus...
It was for freedom\\'s sake, her yearning to escape on the #bluebus, though #freedomsjustanotherwordfornothinglefttolose she had everything to lose. She kept trying to #leave the body she wore like a #tshirt not knowing she could just change it. As she walked past their rooms, she...
A good, generous prayer it was, and went into details: it pleaded for the church, and the little children of the church; for the other churches of the village; for the village itself; for the county; for the State; for the State officers; for the United States; for the churches of ...