Sentences with phrase «as missionaries there»

As y ’ all know, John and I both have a huge heart for Africa and, more specifically, Kenya — as we have both served as missionaries there over the last couple years.

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

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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.

And, at that time, there wasn't as many young men willing to go and be missionaries.

Set in the Belgian Congo in the early 1960s, the Price family, who are Baptist missionaries there, must come to grips with these questions as they learn the realities of this central African land.

718) the Caliph stationed there the missionary delegation, better known as the Mission of the Ten Scholars, which receives the credit for persuading most of the Berber tribes to embrace the Arabic language and Islam.

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.

As L.W. Brown notes there was a considerable Jewish colony in north - western India in the first century, which might have attracted the attention of the first Christian missionaries.

While some early traditions speak of Aggai, a disciple of Addai as the missionary to Parthia, there are other traditions which speak of both Aggai and Mari (another disciple of Addai) as those who brought the gospel first to Parthia.

There is a delightful innocence and beauty in the sight of dozens of children squealing with excitement as they get to chase the missionaries around with water guns squirting left and right as everyone gets drenched.

Once that infrastructure is in place, there is little doubt that the subject of world Christianity as the unique legacy of the modern missionary movement will make its long - overdue impact and channel back some of its revitalized energy into the necessary transformation of our preCopernican historical universe.

There must be some connection,» Walls suggests, «between these events and the missionary movement; and the modern missionary movement, though affected in important ways by earlier influences, took shape as recently as the 19th century.

With 1,500 of them out there converting two Chin - amen apiece per annum against an uphill birth rate of 33,000 pagans per day, it will take upward of a million years to make the conversions balance the output and bring the Christianizing of the country in sight to the naked eye; therefore, if we can offer our missionaries as rich a field at home at lighter expense and quite satisfactory in the matter of danger, why shouldn't they find it fair and right to come back and give us a trial?

Thus we have the example of Robert de Nobili (1577 - 1656), an Italian nobleman who went to India as a Jesuit missionary, arriving there in 1605.

Whether missionaries translated well or badly — and there are masterpieces as well as outrageous parodies — they made field criteria rather than the values of empire - building their operative standard.

The missionary movement has arrived at maturity, and there is urgent need that the churches as well as the missionaries take account of it.

Some scientists have gone overseas as medical, agricultural, or scientific missionaries and teachers; are there not in America most of the same opportunities for service to mankind and for witness by word and work to one's religious faith?

By Madras 1938, there had developed a church - centric view of mission in the International Missionary Council, and in the ecumenical movement as a whole.

As the church and mission began to encounter each other and move closer, there developed within the missionary movement, the convictions and impulses for Christian unity.

There is really no such thing as a vital missionary.

As we mentioned earlier, there were Arab Christians throughout the eastern part of the Roman empire as well as in Persia, and a church with a great missionary spirit might have taken the Gospel to Arabia at an earlier date, probably by the end of the second or early third centurAs we mentioned earlier, there were Arab Christians throughout the eastern part of the Roman empire as well as in Persia, and a church with a great missionary spirit might have taken the Gospel to Arabia at an earlier date, probably by the end of the second or early third centuras well as in Persia, and a church with a great missionary spirit might have taken the Gospel to Arabia at an earlier date, probably by the end of the second or early third centuras in Persia, and a church with a great missionary spirit might have taken the Gospel to Arabia at an earlier date, probably by the end of the second or early third century.

We have there a valid yardstick to apply to our lives as individual Christians, local congregations and as missionary people of God in the world.

I don't even make it on there despite 25 years as pastor and missionary.

The new and awful discoveries made of the polluting and murderous nature of their superstitions, in writings of unquestioning authority, with the success of the missionary labours of the excellent men of other denominations already employed there, the committee think ought to be considered as special calls upon British Christians to increase the means of acquainting their natives of India with their divine religion; and to persevere in the glorious toil, until the name of Christ shall be sounded throughout the vast extent of our oriental dominion, and one God and Saviour shall be worshipped by every subject of the British throne.4

Still another pastor remarked, «There is always room for a sensitive and enlightened missionary presence here as an alternative to the invasion of North American sects and religious corporations.»

Responsible religious leadership — such as the recent meetings of the International Missionary Council, to which Radhakrishnan himself refers, 31 represent — is well aware that there are pressing tasks which require the wholehearted cooperation of the faithful of all religions.

Richard Ferre, a psychiatrist in the LDS Church's Missionary Department, is quoted as saying that «there are better ways to cope than to hide illness or to presume [those who come home early] lack faith.»

In the vast area known from 1914 as the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of Congo), Catholic missionaries were very active and the church's growth there was spectacular.

As the Church advanced through the centuries and missionary efforts grew, there came a need to rectify this fragmentation.

In short, there was a creative, peculiar Christology in Paul, and it is part of Paul's greatness as a missionary and a letter - writer to have articulated it.

Agreed: «don't let the left hand know what the right hand is doing...» Those who «show» their faith, whether through their profession (Pastor, Missionary) or pious works (church board, conference speaker), can only be assessed as more sincere if there is evidence they were religious / pious / faithful when no one was looking (Pope John Paul II never confirmed this, but as a young priest, it was reported he worked in the Polish underground to save many Jewish children from the Nazi's, years later, he was visiting Israel and a woman who claimed he was the priest who saved her from the Nazis stepped forward to meet him, he blessed her, yet never did confirm or deny if he had played the part of a hero).

Veronica Tingzon: Many years ago I was in Guatemala with a missionary group with my father and what not, and we did some medical stuff and there was a mother there who had just birthed a baby and the midwife or as they call the «Partera» was telling her just go ahead and feed the baby but the grandmother of the baby was saying, «no, no, no you don't want the baby to get used to the arms» and I said, «listen to the partera» and that mom was lactating probably within a little bit under two days also.

Claims like, «Africa is a continent of beggars «and related arguments that Africa is prone to corruption imply that there is a specifically «African cultural root» to these complex socio - political processes (recall the missionaries statement: TIA, This is Africa, as if that says it all).

Keep him and the team in your prayers as they help out the missionaries there.

And my in - laws have a special affection for them as two of my siblings - in - law are missionaries in Ukraine, so there are often new Matryoshka - themed treasures sent over.

Both of his parents were raised in India as both sets of grandparents were missionaries there.

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

The novel is alternately told from there different perspectives: June Han, who is orphaned as an 11 - year - old during the Korean War, then eventually moves to New York City after living in an orphanage in Yongin; Hector Brennan, an American GI who works at the orphanage then becomes a janitor in New Jersey; and Sylvie Tanner, the wife of a missionary who helps run the orphanage.

Vénard is known as one of the Martyrs of Vietnam, executed there for his Christian missionary work in 1861.

Luke was born in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil while his parents served there as missionaries for the Catholic Church.

As such, there is a higher chance that missionary volunteers will become ill when they travel to these countries.

As there are major differences between your domestic health insurance at home and missionary travel medical insurance, you should read the certificate wording carefully.

For those who are newer here and don't know my history, I grew up in a war zone overseas as a missionary kid and got PTSD there.