Sentences with phrase «many missionary»

Provo is home to «the largest missionary training center for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints.

A: Be a missionary, not a mercenary.

Born in Uganda to missionary parents in 1962, he grew up largely in British Columbia, and remains Canadian enough to proudly describe the abuse he absorbed one evening last spring at Madison Square Garden, when he wore his Montréal sweater to the Canadiens final, losing game against the New York Rangers in the NHL playoffs.

Missionary entrepreneurs -; more often found running life sciences, green technology, infrastructure or deep sciences businesses -; have a bigger goal beyond just making money.

Komisar: I think today you have two kinds of entrepreneurs: mercenary and missionary company builders.

It's the trade - off between mercenaries and missionaries.

Among those injured in Tuesday's attacks were three Mormon missionaries from Utah and a French missionary.

This documentary made by the late Sydney Pollack looks at the little - known two - night live recordings Aretha Franklin did with LA's New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in 1972 for her best - selling album «Amazing Grace,» which was released the same year.

Jesuit missionaries in South America used quinine to treat malaria as early as 1600, but legend has it that they heard that it could be used to treat the illness from the native Andean population.

North Korea is currently holding two Korean - American academics and a missionary, a Canadian pastor and three South Korean nationals who were doing missionary work.

Graham, who became a Southern Baptist, went on to study at Wheaton College, a prominent Christian liberal arts school in Illinois, where he met fellow student Ruth Bell, who had been raised in China where her father had been a Presbyterian medical missionary.

His sixth - floor corner office at Marriott's headquarters in Bethesda, Md., is decorated with spears and bows and arrows that his parents, Lutheran missionaries who raised him in Japan, brought back from New Guinea.

By aligning the individual's goals with those of the company, you will turn a mercenary (someone who works for the top dollar) into a missionary (someone who believes in and is loyal to the organization).

Reverend Seamus Finn, director of responsible investment at Missionary Oblates, told me he is concerned with the magnitude of foreclosure issues that remain to be solved, even after the recently announced mortgage settlement.

Hersman, whose online moniker is the White African, is an American who grew up in East Africa with missionary parents.

Erik Hersman, son of American missionaries, talks about developing an ecosystem for entrepreneurs in Kenya's flourishing tech community.

Others — like PERC, a roaster of organic coffee — are fellow green missionaries.

TQM was demonstrated on a grand scale by Japanese industry through the intervention of W. Edwards Deming — who, in consequence, and thanks to his missionary labors in the U.S. and across the world, has come to be viewed as the «father» of quality control, quality circles, and the quality movement generally.

Boots celebrated life with her family, traveled the world, served as a medical missionary, and drove convertibles.

When missionaries do sell their business they often seek to find a buyer like Warren Buffett who will not treat the business as an opportunity to create the equivalent of a strip mine.

With its missionary zeal for consumers, Amazon has marched toward monopoly by singing the tune of contemporary antitrust.

Are they missionaries or mercenaries?

They handed the business to friends, went to do missionary work in Uganda for two and a half years, then returned to the U.S. (and the business) in 2014.

As Professor Paul Evans and I have argued in a paper for the Department of Foreign Affairs, Canada could once lay claim to a «special relationship» with China — a legacy of missionary and humanitarian contacts, early diplomatic recognition, and as a reliable supplier of wheat during a period when trade with China was nascent at best, if not taboo.

He also serves on the investment advisory committee for the Missionary Society of St. Columban and is an external advisor for the MBA Investment Fund at The University of Texas at Austin.

A sprawling 44 - bedroom house surrounded by towering brick walls that was once the home base for polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs has been converted into a sober living center by Evangelical missionaries.

Do all founders who are missionaries, visionary, persistent, obsessive and relentless succeed?

The people are also missionaries rather than mercenaries.

Missionary and NOT Mercenary 4.

For missionary entrepreneurs, the dream outcome is to build an «Internet treasure» — a brand that defines a generation, proves that we are better than our parents and becomes something we couldn't live without.

ConversionXL — It seems as though SEO / SEM marketers are almost as obsessed with conversion rates as missionaries.

He explained that the belief stems partly from «letters sent by Pope Gregory in which he encouraged his missionaries to change existing temples into Christian places of worship in the hope that natives would continue to attend and be converted that way».

The Catholic Church has released a report saying that 20 missionaries were killed in the line of duty last year.

Another friend who works for a large Christian missions organization told me that the number of participants they were sending into the mission field this summer was down by 60 percent, which translates into a few thousand missionaries for them.

They say they are committed to religious pluralism, yet in interviews all three expressed reservations about allowing Mormons, Hari Krishnas, and missionaries of other alien faiths to enter Ukraine.

An Australian church leader has published his reasons for participating in the controversial consecration of a missionary bishop for Europe by the conservative Anglican group, GAFCON.

I find it amazing that almost every organized religion during that time was at least partially, if not fully involved in bigotry toward blacks, including outright banning them from their membership and congretations altogether (which Mormans have never done), but only Mormons are still chided constantly about their history with blacks, despite the fact that black members have had full benefits for almost four decades, and despite the fact that Mormons have been actively proselyting and doing charitable missionary work in Africa for over 160 years.

For the sake of consistency I hope you'd direct those same questions to any religion that practiced evangelism or engaged in missionary work.

Biraq, don't forget that medicine, education and agricultural technologies from Christendom and Christian missionaries have been saving the whole humanity.

When I was doing heavy inner city missionary work I waitressed.

The Mormons are a sleeper cell and have been commanded to attack the polls in two weeks — Even the missionaries over seas will be able to VOTE!

A friend of mine was such a missionary, getting an email from another church that could no longer send him monthly support (it was a substantial amount of his monthly income).

If you really think that badly of our church, go to lds.org, or go talk to the local missionaries in your area.

Romney has been a good husband and father, a missionary, and a leader in his church.

for example, take China & Africa: China kicked out all the missionaries in 1949.

There is in fact an Abrahamic religion that has a very violent past, one ridden with; war, slavery, colonialism and intrusive missionaries - it is not Islam.

When I confronted her over this, she responded by saying that she thinks I (formerly a foreign missionary and ordained minister) was never actually «saved.»

He was shot in the back by several men (not just one) while sojourning as a missionary in the deep south.

Don't even pretend like you know something about Christianity until you've walked a mile in the shoes of a Christian missionary, a Christian pastor, a military chaplain, a christian volunteer at a homeless shelter, etc..

A British explorer who went missing in Papua New Guinea three weeks ago has been saved by a Christian missionary.