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Aaron Leland

Leland served as Lieutenant Governor from 1822 to 1827, and declined to be nominated for Governor in 1828, preferring instead to continue serving as Pastor of his church.


Catch the Fire Toronto

Catch the Fire Toronto, previously known (until 2010) as Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship (TACF) is a non-denominational neocharismatic Christian church in Toronto, Canada.


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1954 Adelaide earthquake

Other major buildings severely damaged included the local church, St Francis Xavier Cathedral, the Adelaide Post Office clock tower and a newly completed hospital in Blackwood which sustained major damage in all its wards and offices (though an operating theatre survived).

Albert Pendarvis

The local church broadcasts its two Sunday morning services (the Bible School of the Air and the Worship Hour) on WLNO in New Orleans and all of its services on the Internet.

Amphipolis

One possible explanation provided by the historian André Boulanger is that an increasing ‘willingness’ on the part of the wealthy upper classes in the late Roman period to spend money on local gentrification projects (which he terms euergetism, from the Greek verb εύεργετέω, (meaning 'I do good') was exploited by the local church to its advantage, which led to a mass gentrification of the urban centre and of the agricultural riches of the city’s territory.

Ashbel Green Simonton

His parents were the doctor and politician William Simonton (elected twice to Congress) and Mrs. Martha Davis Snodgrass (1791–1862), daughter of James Snodgrass, a Presbyterian minister, who was the pastor of the local church.

Dana Hammond

At age nine he began to play for his local church, the church music ministry allowed Dana to hone his skills and travel to places like New York and Oslo, Norway.

David Sutherland Hibbard

After graduating from Princeton in 1896, Hibbard served as a pastor at a local church in Lyndon, Kansas for three years.

Don Potter

For instance, examples of stone carvings undertaken by him in 1991 can be seen at a local church in the village of Durweston.

Donačka Gora

The local church, from which the hill and the settlement get their name, is dedicated to Saint Donatius and belongs to the Parish of Rogatec.

Georgiana Harcourt

In 12 September 1835 when Princess Victoria visited Harewood House in Yorkshire with her mother, the Duchess of Kent she attended the local church service.

Heyshott

It is also notable that Bishop Morris Maddocks is buried at the local church, alongside his wife Anne.

Hillesley

Pevsner notes the following buildings: The local church is St Giles - it was designed in 1851 by the amateur, Rev. Perkins.

Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church

From 1721, during Peter the Great's reign, until August 1917 (existed only nominally prior to (14) February 1, 1918) the Holy Governing Synod was the supreme body of the church, and state administrative authority in the Russian Empire, replacing a patriarch in some general church functions and external relations, as well as service and oversight to the cathedrals of the bishops of the local church.

Léon Vasseur

Vasseur was born in Bapaume in north-east France, the son of Augustin Vasseur, the local church organist and choirmaster.

Leonard Dommett

They moved to Bribie Island, where he played regularly in the local church, and where he died, aged 77, on 11 April 2006.

Louis Simpson

At Veghel his company suffered 21 killed in a brutal shelling while in the local church yard.

McKownville, New York

They would donate land for the construction of the Great Western Turnpike built in 1799 (today Western Avenue), land for a local church (McKownville Methodist Church), and the original one room school house.

Ned Weir

Weir was raised in Scotland and began playing football with his local church side, St Joseph's in Bonnybridge, before joining Camelon Juniors F.C. where he developed his skills as a left-half.

Ossuary

The village of Wamba in the province of Valladolid, Spain has an impressive ossuary of over a thousand skulls inside the local church, dating from between the 12th and 18th centuries.

Petišovci

The local church in the settlement is dedicated to Saint Rosalia and belongs to the Parish of Lendava.

Roszetta Johnson

She was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and grew up singing in her local church choir.

Selo nad Polhovim Gradcem

The local church is dedicated to Saint Gertrude and stands on the western slope of Mount Tošč (1021 m).

Šenturška Gora

The local church is dedicated to Saint Ulrich, thus the name of the village (literally, 'Mount Saint Ulrich').

SIMY

It grew out of two different youth and children's project that worked out of the local church in Townhead and St Rollox church in Sighthill, Glasgow.

Stanley Grenz

He later worked within the local church context as youth director and assistant pastor (Northwest Baptist Church, Denver, Colorado, 1971-1976), pastor (Rowandale Baptist Church, Winnipeg, Manitoba 1979-1981), and interim pastor on several occasions.

Strmec pri Svetem Florijanu

The local church, built on Ložno Hill north of the main settlement, is dedicated to the Virgin of Loreto and belongs to the Parish of Sveti Florijan ob Boču.

Taxation in Finland

Taxes are collected from church members by local church parishes belonging to the two official churches, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland and Finnish Orthodox Church, and two country-wide Lutheran parishes, the German parish in Finland and Olaus Petri parish for citizens of Sweden living in Finland.

UpStairs Lounge arson attack

In 2013, noting the 40th anniversary of the fire, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of New Orleans, Gregory Michael Aymond, issued a statement of regret that his predecessor, Archbishop Philip Hannan, and the local church leadership ignored the arson attack.

Uriah, Alabama

In 1997, a group of local teenagers were responsible for the arson of a local church and the vandalism of another in the nearby community of Little River.