Sentences with phrase «as the congregation dwindled»

As both congregations dwindled due to the people moving away from the shrinking town, the pastors of the two churches decided to join forces and become one church.

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Babette's lavish celebratory banquet tempts the family's dwindling congregation, who abjure such fleshly pleasures as fine foods and wines.
Ethan Hawke, in a performance of raw intensity, stars as the Reverend Ernst Toller, a parish pastor at a Dutch Reform Church whose congregation in upstate New York is dwindling.
It chronicles a pastor (Ethan Hawke) at a rural New York church dealing with a dwindling congregation and financial crunch as it approaches its 250th anniversary.
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