Sentences with phrase «as pastor of»

I serve as the pastor of Lennox Ebenezer Presbyterian Church (PCA).

He also serves as Pastor of Marriage and Family Ministries in a local church.

I serve as the pastor of Lennox Ebenezer Presbyterian Church (PCA).

I am serving as Pastor of Peace Lutheran Church in Steeleville, Illinois.

He is an ordained elder in The United Methodist Church and has served as pastor of churches in Port Deposit, MD and Chesapeake City, MD..

He is an ordained elder in The United Methodist Church and has served as pastor of churches in Port Deposit, MD and Chesapeake City, MD..

The Rev. James Sidoti, Order of Carmelites, will be installed as pastor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Middletown by Bishop Dominick Lagonegro during the 11:30 a.m. Mass Sunday.

«We recognized we could keep polishing up some old tires or we could put new tires on with some tread on them,» said Rev. Copeland, who also serves as pastor of New Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Rockford.

To have lived through that time, with my father as the pastor of my church and moral compass of our community... it was, how do I put it?

«This isn't the west coast Bloods and Crips, where it goes outside the neighborhoods,» said Common Council President Darius Pridgen, who is familiar with East Side street life as pastor of one of the East Side's largest churches.

This time it's the Rev. Michael Walrond, an associate of the Rev. Al Sharpton who also serves as the pastor of First Corinthian Baptist Church.

Diaz's experience includes work as a pastor of the Church of God, as the founder and executive director of the Christian Community Benevolent Association, as the founder and pastor of the Christian Community Neighborhood Church, and as the founder and president of the New York Hispanic Clergy Organization.

He served as president and continued as pastor of his church until his death.

Our family had recently relocated to Northeast Iowa where I had been called as the pastor of a small, rural church and we had the joy of living in a 99 year old Iowa farmhouse that the church owns as its parsonage.

He presently serves as pastor of the Lakeshore Avenue Baptist Church in Oakland, California, and as adjunct professor of Preaching and Field Education at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley.

I knew that me leaving my role as pastor of Rothesay Vineyard would liberate me to be who I am without restraint and to do what I am passionate about with freedom; I immediately knew that Jon would assume the role as interim pastor and their dilemma would vanish; and the church would experience a brand new and fresh season.

Believe me, I would've continued until my dying day as pastor of this church, but it was becoming more evident to me that I wasn't fitting.

Dr. Bartlett recalls that his father served as pastor of two churches that integrated white and black people.

As time went on, I was feeling more uncomfortable in my role as the pastor of Rothesay Vineyard.

Many of you know that the last thing I wanted to do was cling to my role as pastor of Rothesay Vineyard until nobody was left except me with my pride.

And I say that sincerely as a pastor of such a church!

The Rev. Rich Smith had just arrived as the pastor of a church in Bethesda, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C., in 2001.

Eugene Peterson — translator of The Message and author of all my favorite books — described a period of boredom while serving as the pastor of Christ our King Presbyterian Church near...

Having served as a pastor of Christian congregations for over 30 years prior to becoming the Director of the Center of Theological Inquiry, I feel qualified to assure you, if this be your call, that the ministry of a Christian congregation is the most challenging and the most rewarding, the most demanding and the most fulfilling, vocation in all the world.

«Dear Brothers and Sisters of the Church in Ireland, it is with great concern that I write to you as Pastor of the universal Church... For my part, considering the gravity of these offences, and the often inadequate response to them on the part of the ecclesiastical authorities in your country, I have decided to write this Pastoral Letter to express my closeness to you and to propose a path of healing, renewal and reparation.»

Having completed work on my Ph.D. except for the dissertation, I was at last established as pastor of a church in southeast Texas, trying to write my thesis with one hand and take care of pastoral duties with the other.

To caricature evangelicals, it highlights the rise and fall of Ted Haggard, who was forced to resign as pastor of New Life Church in Colorado after he confessed to a sex scandal.

Before being elected presiding Bishop, he served as bishop of the Saint Paul Area Synod from 1995 to 2001 and before that as pastor of three Minnesota congregations: Prince of Glory Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, Edina Community Lutheran Church, and University Lutheran Church of Hope in Minneapolis.

Half - a-dozen years before he administered to me the grace of full communion he came to serve as the pastor of St. John's, the church on the Creighton University campus, where I then taught.

He [Mr. Yesadian] has an unassuming character, consistent and earnest piety, knowledge of divine truth, and the promise of much usefulness as a pastor of a native church... May the time be not distant when many others, as well qualified shall come forward as candidates for the native ministry!

Yet the irony of the criticism is that I write not simply as an academic but also as the pastor of a church of ca. 160 people in a small town outside Philadelphia.

My time as a pastor of a local church came to an end because it is a scarier ride to strap yourself into than the traditional way of gathering around common belief.

His brother Jonathan succeeded Falwell Sr. as pastor of Thomas Road Baptist, the 24,000 - member Southern Baptist church located on campus.

Asher serves as Pastor of Zion Lutheran Church in the small mountain town of Idaho Springs, Colorado.

«As a pastor of a local church attended by people of different political parties and persuasions, I have made it my practice not to endorse political candidates,» wrote Jonathan Falwell.

The sermon was prepared for the installation of a friend as pastor of an American Baptist congregation located just beyond the suburbs of Indianapolis, Indiana.

When the doors to the Sistine Chapel are closed and the secret deliberations begin, the 117 men in the 2013 papal conclave will not only be selecting a pope as the new bishop of Rome, but also as the pastor of the 1,195,671,000 - member global communion.

As a professor at a Reformed seminary and as a pastor of a Presbyterian church, I certainly rejoice in the renewed interest in the teaching of the Reformers which this movement helped to generate.

If my hope as pastor of a suburban North American congregation is the despair of a revolutionary priest in Latin America, can the gospel unite us by chastening both our hopes, placing them in the perspective of the hope we have in Jesus Christ?

John Piper has preached his last sermon as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church.

He relishes the region's multicultural mix and loves to surf when he can find the time in his busy schedule as pastor of New City Church in Coconut Creek.

Rather than stay at Yale and work toward his doctorate, Niebuhr accepted the appointment by his denomination as pastor of Bethel Evangelical Church in Detroit, Michigan, in 1915.

2006 Doug, who had replaced me, decided to go into business and I was asked to return as the pastor of Rothesay Vineyard.

1996 Pastor Steve Witt asked if I would take over him as pastor of Rothesay Vineyard since he felt called to return to Ohio to plant another one.

For twelve years Barth served as a pastor, first as a pastoral assistant at a German - speaking congregation in Geneva and then as pastor of the Swiss Reformed Church in Safenwil, a small industrial town in the Aargau.

Dr. King began his civil rights crusade as pastor of a local church, and some of the key people in Clergy and Laity Concerned have been local pastors.

Campe is learning now to serve as pastor of two churches at once.

It was the year he was turning 60, celebrating the 40th anniversary of his ordination and marking 15 years as pastor of his congregation.

As a former grime record label boss and now as the pastor of a church in south - east London, I'm fully aware of the conflict that comes with being a Christian and navigating hip - hop culture.

Recently I celebrated 15 years as pastor of a congregation in East Texas of under 200 members with about half of them present for Sunday worship.