Sentences with phrase «as a missionary in»

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

To illustrate my point I'll give you an example: While serving as a Missionary in Italy, one day I prayed for a miracle; a few hours later my companion and I were stopped by some business guy standing behind his car.

Heidi Baker, with her husband Rolland, has spent many years as a missionary in the bush land of Mozambique, South East Africa.

He subsequently served his own two - year stint as a missionary in California.

As a missionary in Uganda, there was little that surprised me after a while of living cross-culturally, but it took me a moment to realize that the fresh, brown egg (there are ways of deducing that an unwashed egg is fresh) was indeed a purposeful offering.

But I found myself now in a place were I found the Jesus that I always preached to other people for about 15 years including 8 1/2 years in as a missionary in a Third World Country with my wife and three children (two of them born overseas), the Jesus that speaks to you, the Jesus that wants to make you happy and give you hope, the Jesus that saved me and I knew but not to this level of intimacy.

Speaking at the San Antonio Conference, Lesslie Newbigin made reference to his own cultural background in these terms: «As I look back on my own life as a missionary in India, I realize now in a way that I never did at that time that I was not only carrying the gospel but that I was also a carrier of this so - called modern world - view which I now see to be breaking down because it is false.

As T. V. Philip observes, almost all of those who went out as missionaries in the earlier period were «a distinctive social class in British society... of craftsmen, small traders, shoe makers, printers, ship builders, school teachers...» William Carey, for instance, plied the trade of a cobbler to supplement his meagre earnings as a village school teacher and Baptist pastor.

For Sweeney, crucial moments of understanding came while he was serving as a missionary in the Philippines and began to see missionary work from the standpoint of the missionized.

Mark Eekhoff explains what happened when he left the comfort of his home in the West to serve as a missionary in Africa More

We stayed with her family, as she was originally from that part of Ireland but had been living in the US for a couple of years after marrying an American whom she met while working as a missionary in Bangladesh.

About Blog I was raised as an Adventist Christian, spent some time in public, Baptist, and Adventist schools as well as a missionary in Peru.

This romantic coming of age story is based on the memoirs of John H. Groberg, who served as a missionary in the remote Tongan Islands in the 1950's.

Anderson left the states to work as a missionary in Britain, and McKinney eventually followed him there.

Active in her church as a Sunday school teacher and a women's Bible study leader, she and her husband have also served as missionaries in Ukraine, delivering humanitarian relief to orphanages and hospitals.

When younger, he served as a missionary in Europe.

About Blog I was raised as an Adventist Christian, spent some time in public, Baptist, and Adventist schools as well as a missionary in Peru.

Columbus, OH About Blog We are a missional church — St. Augustine's serves as a missionary in the community.

He has had significant cross-cultural experience having served as a missionary in four different countries.

The impact of Christ's love on our 11 years as missionaries in China and Taiwan.

thanks... I came over from the Relevant linky... this was all such good stuff... I'm behind in all of this because I just really started my writing blog a couple of months ago... and had only heard a little of Relevant and wanted to go, but to quick to work out logistics... anyhow, this is a super main point post as I came over lamenting I missed Relevant and also lamenting that, Lord willing — oh my, what a mess I am, I'll be living overseas as a missionary in Eastern Europe the next Relevant: (and:)

They had been members many years ago and are now working as missionaries in another country.

Also, we live on monthly support as missionaries in Germany.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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 taboAs 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 taboas a reliable supplier of wheat during a period when trade with China was nascent at best, if not taboo.

The FACT is that Christianity would not have spread nearly as far had not missionary celibate priests not gone in to the jungles.

As opposed to beiving in a god who can create rainbows all over the world, but can't even spread his own word, without waiting 2000 years for missionaries to do it — somewhat.

Among those who have been absent are members who grew up steeped in Mormonism, faithfully served as missionaries and have families still active in the church.

So I doubt many will take her views seriously, since the fly in the face of what we have learned through the years about such Christians martyrs as Jim Elliot (speared to death by the Aucas and yet his son went back to be a missionary to them, because he LOVED them, something she might want to consider).

It shocks me to see all the articles where in people describe Mormon beliefs as mysterious, when there's over 52,000 missionaries willing to teach the faith at a moments notice.

if not, i pray for you and i will set up missionaries all across the globe to make sure that the rest of the lost souls also find Santa Clause within them... let's first begin with donations; only from your heart and soul, and because of your kindness... no other agenda... Santa Clause loves you my dear... he has touched my heart so I know he exists... and I want you to believe in Santa Clause as well so you don't have to burn in hell... i want to save your soul my child... come pray with me...

He refused to believe that Vatican II, the ecumenical council he had experienced as a powerful work of the Holy Spirit, could only lead to permanent incoherence and division in Catholicism; and by providing an authoritative interpretation of the Council, John Paul II's pontificate energized the living parts of the Church and made Vatican II the launch platform for the new evangelization and for the Church's rediscovery of itself as a missionary enterprise.

However, this tale of the «drunk priest» named «Albert Marie, age 46» of Sireuil and speeding at «120 kph» before killing Mrs. Anderson has been told to LDS missionaries in France as recently as 2010 that we can validate.

As a survivor of abuse as a child in a missionary boarding school I believe what he said was very truAs a survivor of abuse as a child in a missionary boarding school I believe what he said was very truas a child in a missionary boarding school I believe what he said was very true.

What I have to wonder is, if we, as a Church, trust God to work and bring people to Him, or if we feel like we have to «help» by providing all these material possessions (which in the end are meaningless, the money spent on them might be better spent on improving the community, providing food for hungry, support for ministers and overseas missionaries).

I told you before that I was a layman who has been a Sunday School teacher, and that I have taught in missionary settings as well as in counselling.

Andrew Brunson was arrested in 2016 while he was working as a missionary there and accused of partaking in terrorist organisations.

The general working theory for Christian missionaries was first formalized in St. Augustine's doctrine of «cognite intrare», or «compel them to enter», but was perhaps best summed up by J. C. Warner some 1500 years later: ``... the sword must first — not exterminate them, but — break them up as tribes, and destroy their political existence; after which, when thus set free from the shackles by which they are bound, civilisation and Christianity will no doubt make rapid progress among them.»

Equally as large as Wycliffe in terms of income (though not engaged primarily in sending missionaries) is World Vision International.

What we meant to model was the sending of one of our number to be a foreign missionary — to learn a new language, to understand a local culture, to sacrifice the amenities of affluence and to live knowing that he or she is always being watched by seekers — while the rest of us stay here as lifetime local missionaries, learning to speak the language of the unchurched, understanding secular culture, sacrificing the amenities of affluence and living as a «watched» person in a society that is skeptical of Christian spirituality until it sees the real thing on display.

He defended traditional missionary preaching of the gospel of salvation in Jesus Christ against historical relativists and religious pluralists who viewed it as at best pointless and at worst a cultural imposition.

A son of missionary parents who spent most of his life and career in Latin America, he had served as president of a conference in the American South for the past five years.

Those evangelical «old style» missionaries still serving overseas are perceived by liberal / ecumenicals as supporting repressive economic and political systems in developing countries in order to achieve the «stability» that will enable them to gain admittance to those countries and be left free to evangelize.

Out of all this insanity comes the very wise perspective of a woman who identifies herself as «the very worst missionary,» but who is pretty much «the very best blogger» when it comes to speaking frankly about faith in real life.

He was born and grew up in China, as a child of missionaries.

Beth was raised as a missionary kid in the highlands of Papua, Indonesia and the jungles of Southern California.

According to reports, he's consulting the book as he prepares to play a Jesuit in a film adaptation of «Silence,» a novel about Catholic missionaries in Japan.

A missionary kid living in Quito, Ecuador, Chad had begun using, and then selling, drugs as a teenager, in an environment far more dangerous than in the United States.

Lim follows a spate of Western missionaries who have been arrested in North Korea, which has spent the last 13 years topping Open Doors» World Watch List as the worst place for Christians to live.