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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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These local agencies oversee significant ministries of social service and outreach and provide innumerable opportunities for church members to witness to their unity in Christ.
Local Uniting Care agencies and Uniting Church congregations collect the gifts and distribute them to families in need in the surrounding area.
Local Church Ministry is requested to convene a representative group of pastors and scholars to develop an extensive reading list from which books may be selected, and guidelines for book selection and subject matter.
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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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The local congregation is an organizational member of the Church Builders League sponsored by the General Conference to assist member churches with new construction, additions and remodeling projects.
Enabling local churches to increase their use of 21st Century communication tools and technologies to enhance the life and ministries of both the local and the wider church.
Our own local congregation also has a missions budget, which derives its income from the church's general fund and from the Faith Promise giving.
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Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent
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Church Flower Festivals Many local churches have flower festivals.
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Dan Toomey,
Computer Salesman
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The local people provide for the normal running of their churches but need help for any major project like building or repairing their church.
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Mark Harris,
Priest
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That the local church is a congregation of scripturally baptized (single immersion) believers associated by a covenant of faith and fellowship of the gospel.
A New Testament church is a local congregation of baptized believers in Jesus Christ who are united by covenant in belief.
As a local congregation of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church we hold to the Historic Christian Faith as expressed in the Westminster Confession of Faith and in the Larger and Shorter Catechisms.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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The local church calls its pastor and conducts its own affairs in accordance with general assembly guidelines.
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