To confirm means to “ make more sure ” and the ordinance of confirmation also stands as a witness of the individual becoming a member of the LDS church and community and not just an acceptance of Jesus.

The monks bought the ' Maccabee Hotel ', formerly called ' The Howard ' from the Batato brothers together with two-hundred hectares of land and started the community in a building which still stands in the monastic domain.

In 1793, Colonel John Carson built a plantation house near Buck Creek in the Pleasant Gardens community, which still stands today as the Historic Carson House.

Also located near this community, there still stands an artillery site ( now called the " Confederate Breast Works "), which was manned by the Confederacy to guard against Union movements along the Nolan Trace during the Civil War. Vernon Parish Map, 1895.

His house still stands, and is the oldest building in the community.

The Montara Grammar School opened in 1915 ; the historic two-story building still stands, serving as a community center.

Pow Wow Days is a three day event that includes a community concert or big band dancing, children's " Muttin Bustin Rodeo ", a parade, a real Indian Pow Wow, a beer garden, 4H Club and cheerleader sponsored food stands, church-sponsored lunches, historical tours, antique automobiles and tractors and many other events.

Nevertheless, it is home to a thriving cottage industry that includes Specialty Stands, the world's leading manufacturer of custom oak slot machine stands, which is actually located in Moro, an unincorporated community north of Bethalto ; RF Technologies, North America's largest independent service center for drive-through communication systems ; and West Star Aviation, an aircraft servicing and manufacturing company located at the St. Louis Regional Airport.

Although the permanent resident population of Snow Lake Shores stands at around 300, that figure can grow to over 900 during the summer months as seasonal residents and vacationers come to the community.

This mill soon became too small to serve the community, and in 1857 William Likens built the big two-story mill, which still stands today.

The Hierophant can also represent someone who stands out as a " pillar of the community ", often a person who is respected by others and can be a source of moral authority and is socially respected.

After the demolition of the old school building a modern masonry armory was constructed in 1936 and still stands today and serves as a community gathering center.

The building then became a community center for the town and stands next to the new city hall.

In summary, Roaring Spring stands as an excellent example of a paternally founded and managed paper-mill town in central Pennsylvania, one whose buildings reflect how the growth of a hometown family-owned industry stimulated and, in many cases, directed the development patterns and architectural character of the community.

But the history of the facility lives on in a monument which stands outside the library and community center.

The community is also one of the few locations within the United States to view White-collared Seedeater, a small sparrow-like bird that inhabits second growth stands of Phragmites along the Rio Grande.

The community is also one of the few locations within the United States to view White-collared Seedeater, a small sparrow-like bird that inhabits second growth stands of Phragmites along the Rio Grande.

Another passenger depot built in 1909 still stands in Richland Center, and it today serves as a visitor center for the community.

As it stands today the Haworth Band is a busy and thriving organisation that is closely linked to the local community.

It was not until 1740, however, that the Middlesex Society of the Town of Stamford built the first community church, now the First Congregational Church of Darien ( which stands on the original site at the corner of Brookside Road and the Boston Post Road ).

In Philip Roth's novel American Pastoral, the central character imagines himself as Johnny Appleseed when he moves from Newark to a rural community ; in this case the figure stands for an innocent, childlike version of the American pioneer spirit.

He was a scion of the royal house of Ceredigion, and founded a Celtic monastic community at Glyn Rhosyn ( The Vale of Roses ) on the western headland of Pembrokeshire ( Sir Benfro ), at the spot where St David's Cathedral stands today.

In Bimport stands the Westminster Memorial Hospital, a small community hospital which has about 20 beds, an accident and emergency department ( not 24 hrs ) and a range of out-patient clinics.

The theater still stands and currently functions as a church and community arts center.

Fortunately, although only a few years ago they held the student at arms length, today the business houses welcome the opportunity to aid the student, not only from an increased sense of community responsibility but also from the realization that the student of today is the interior designer of tomorrow -- that the student already is `` in the trade ''.

electricity plays such an important part in community life today that it is difficult to envision a time when current was not available for daily use.

Even today there are some doubts about the value of education for Japanese women, but this University continues to grow and to send its students out into the community.

Though most of the early Waldorf schools were teacher-founded, the schools today are usually initiated and later supported by an active parent community.

The lighting of a community Beltane fire from which each hearth fire is then relit is observed today in some parts of the Gaelic diaspora, though in most of these cases it is a cultural revival rather than an unbroken survival of the ancient tradition.

# Communities of culture: range from the local clique, sub-culture, ethnic group, religious, multicultural or pluralistic civilisation, or the global community cultures of today.

Despite some claims that shotgun sequencing was in some ways less accurate than the clone-by-clone method chosen by the Human Genome Project, the technique became widely accepted by the scientific community and is still the de facto standard used today.

Most of the divisions still in existence within the Christadelphian community today stem from further divisions of the Berean fellowship.

It was a feminist movement in that most of its teachers and students were women ; notable among the founders of the movement were Emma Curtis Hopkins, known as the " teacher of teachers " Myrtle Fillmore, Malinda Cramer, and Nona L. Brooks ; with its churches and community centers mostly led by women, from the 1880s to today.

LGBT movements organized today are made up of a wide range of political activism and cultural activity, such as lobbying and street marches ; social groups, support groups and community events ; magazines, films and literature ; academic research and writing ; and even business activity.

" According to the tradition, Hannibal's oath took place in the town of Peñíscola, today part of the community of Valencia, Spain.

The concept of community and collaboration is still relevant today, although hackers are no longer limited to collaboration in geographic regions.

The value of community is still in high practice and use today.

The site is marked and is one mile from the unincorporated community known today as Monroe Hall, Virginia.

This is because the founder of this seaside community, which is today part of the municipality of Richmond, British Columbia, was Manoah Steves, originally from Moncton.

While most Jews consider Modern Orthodoxy traditional today, some within the Orthodox community groups to its right consider it of questionable validity.

Towards the latter part of the Middle Ages in Europe, both the State-the State would use the instrument of confiscation for the first time to satisfy a debt-and the Church-the Church succeeded in acquiring immense quantities of land-were allied against the village community to displace the small landlord and they were successful to the extent that today, the village has become the ideal of the individualist, a place in which every man " does what he wills with his own.

In India, the Marwari Jain community pioneered the pawnbroking business, but today others are involved ; the work is done by many agents called " saudagar ".

Tibet is home to the largest and most flourishing polyandrous community in the world today.

The Universal House of Justice today guides the growth and development of the global Bahá ' í community.

Andrew Tanenbaum quickly asked the community to decide one of these two editors to be the vi clone in Minix ; Elvis was chosen, and remains the vi clone for Minix today.

The Xena fandom is still an active community today.

Consequently, indeed there is still a small and fragile community of Assyrians in Iraq, however, millions of Assyrian Christians live today in exiled and prosperous communities in the west.

Whether or not Métis have Treaty Rights is an explosive issue in the Canadian Aboriginal community today.