Sentences with phrase «as missionary with»

In my time as a missionary with the Chinese community, I learned that they give away gifts on their birthdays.

Tim was born and raised in the Philippines, where his parents served as missionaries with Wycliffe Bible Translators.

we moved from atlanta to europe as missionaries with crusade 10 years ago.

Not exact matches

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

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.

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

(He does seem to recognize Islam, with its history of racial slavery and its missionary drive, as a particular problem, around which he stumbles and fumbles a bit.)

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 went to these countries as a loan officer, not a missionary, and he's not addressing the folks with two bites left on their plate.

You know, as a Missionary Baptist (and not of Eddie Long's so called churches) I couldn't agree with you more.

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

I have evaluated that, as a native African missionary, my team and I can do more effective work in evangelism with $ 10,000 than a visiting missionary can do with $ 100,000.

Ahmad Khan was also involved in a controversy with the Christian missionaries which led him to write a commentary on the Bible, in which he showed that many Muslim religious scholars, such as Bukhari, did not believe that the words of the Old Testament and the New Testament had suffered from interpolation at the hands of the Jews and the Christians.

I have evaluated that, as a native missionary my team and I can do an effective work in evangelism with 10.000 US$ $ $ than a visiting missionary can't do with 100.000 US$ $ $ $.

I am available to advise any missionaries interested in doing a mission work in Africa on how to be cost effective, yet with great results / fruits for the Lord's kingdom as per mission field they are going / or are interested in.

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.

He came to the picture of a missionary nurse holding in her bare hands the foot of a man afflicted with leprosy as she bound up his wounds.

«She behaved as if she had equality with men and became the most popular and respected missionary among Southern Baptists,» Sullivan said.

We burst with enthusiasm as we gathered funds to send missionaries across the globe, ranging, as the words of the popular hymn had it, «from Greenland's icy mountains to India's coral strand.»

-- I told this once to a young woman from Japan over an outing with another Japanese woman who was going to Bangladesh as a missionary.

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.

Catholic bishops in Guatemala — as elsewhere in the region — resent the persecution by governments seen to be in league with U.S. fundamentalist missionaries.

We are not dealing here with the concept of conversion as such but with conversion as a missionary motive.

As in past centuries of Christian conversion, the missionary and military sometimes went hand in hand, each serving the purposes of the other, and not always in a manner or a spirit consonant with the spirit of Christ.

The question of missionary encounter with non-Christian cultures and truth claims is also, as it is inevitably said, very complex.

For this reason I must reject the attempt of Lamar Cope («Matthew XXV: 31 - 46 «The Sheep and the Coats» Reinterpreted,» Novum Testamentum 11 [19691, 32 - 44) to see the passage as a statement of how Gentiles only will be judged — i.e., in accordance with their treatment of Christian missionaries.

While the action - oriented nature of mission as witness serves as a corrective means to traditional missionary paradigm, it also brings with it the tendency to limit mission to social activism.

Both the European missionary movement and the traditional Indian «Christian Theology of the 20th Century were rejected as metaphysical speculations having nothing to do directly with the history and existence of the marginalized majority within the Indian Church.

In many cases Malayarayans were ready to be baptised as soon as the missionaries preached, indicating that either they were already prepared for a radical move or they were in contact with Christian relatives in other villages.

However, a redeeming feature of the descriptions is that missionaries such as H. Baker, Jr., and A. F. Painter, who were acquainted with the people and local language for several decades, had also an anthropological approach which makes a difference.

The Arab embassies employed Nestorian missionaries as interpreters and advisers in their dealings with the Chinese government.

Whereas eristics in its negative function attacks the errors of non-Christian views, missionary theology as the positive form of eristics attempts to remove the ohstacles that interfere with the understanding and acceptance of the gospel.

His main argument is as follows: «The word Hindu which had essentially geographic and cultural meaning began to acquire religious connotations» and communal overtones when missionary religious began converting the untouchables and lower castes of Hindu society with promise of their liberation from caste indignities.

(2) Following a wave of persecution a number of Christian missionaries then carried the gospel farther afield, notably to Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch (Acts 11:19); at Antioch, the capital of Syria and a city which ranked with Alexandria as second only to Rome in size and importance, Gentiles were for the, first time admitted into the Church in large numbers, apparently without becoming Jewish proselytes in any full sense.

The missionaries for the most part seem to have worked in groups and to have formed around them a nucleus of new believers, amongst whom some would be appointed, probably with the consent of the whole body of believers, as elders (Acts 14:23, Ja.

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.

Pike modeled this throughout his career, self - identifying both as a missionary and a scholar until his death on December 31, 2000 — all the while demonstrating that evangelicals could effectively serve God with both the heart and the mind.

Though readers who are familiar with fundamentalist culture of the 1970s and «80s will appreciate her descriptions of the impact that evangelist Joni Eareckson and traveling missionaries had on her as a small girl, and of her growing passion for the Bible and of her puzzlement over the relationship between creation and evolution, her story rarely penetrates the surface of that culture.

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?

A major difference with the US, in Orthodox history, is that in previous instances Orthodox people went to new lands as missionaries, with faith uppermost in mind.

In the act of translating, my missionary friend demonstrated that he had as much claim to being in Africa as he had to identifying with the West.

From the 16th century when Francis Xavier decided to cast his lot with the East against his own Western culture, to the 19th century when Christaller singlehandedly promoted Akan culture, to the 20th when Frank Laubach inveighed against the encroachments of American power in the Philippines, missionaries in the field have helped to promote indigenous self - awareness as a counterforce to Western cultural importation.

The issue with Missionary Sisters is as published by Susan Shields.

Also, I'm somewhat familiar with the culture, which is helpful as well, since all expert missiologists say that indigenous missionaries are typically the most successful missionaries.

With extensive expert testimony, the plaintiffs made the case that secular humanism functions in many respects for its adherents as a religion (with ministers, fellowship, ceremonies marking the milestones of life, and a missionary program), and that it has many of the substantive characteristics of a religion as well, including a coherent interpretation of all of realWith extensive expert testimony, the plaintiffs made the case that secular humanism functions in many respects for its adherents as a religion (with ministers, fellowship, ceremonies marking the milestones of life, and a missionary program), and that it has many of the substantive characteristics of a religion as well, including a coherent interpretation of all of realwith ministers, fellowship, ceremonies marking the milestones of life, and a missionary program), and that it has many of the substantive characteristics of a religion as well, including a coherent interpretation of all of reality.

As was the case with HISG, where real, tangible relief was being offered in the form of warm clothes for North Korea's harsh winters, missionaries will often be sincere in offering some legal form of relief while concealing their illegal, spiritual goals.

Now I preach on the weekends, but this slight doctrinal correction allows me to speak as a «visiting missionary» with more of an agenda of outreach and not a denominational crony.

That is sad about the missionary friend, but as you say, he couldn't get dragged down with you.

Faced with this grim reality, missionaries have often adopted a professed purpose to serve as their excuse for entering a closed - off country.

As with other new missionaries, my goal in 1954 was to bring Christ to Africa, a continent not dark but dusky enough in my view to need the light that shone more brightly in my American home.