Sentences with phrase «city missionary work»

When I was doing heavy inner city missionary work I waitressed.

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The latest in the reported «Three Rectifications and One Demolition» campaign comes from the city of Ningbo, where famous missionary James Hudson Taylor once worked.

Mr. Bachelder, who has worked in banking, in 1987 was minister of Worcester City Missionary Society (United Church of Christ) in Worcester, Massachusetts.

It was during Kao - tsung's reign that Christian missionaries began to extend their work from one centre at Chang» An to other cities.

Along with a few other members of the foreign community including doctors and missionaries who remained in the city, and driven by simple humanitarian concerns, shock at the appalling behaviour of Germany's Asian ally, and a love for the country and people among whom he had worked for so long, he created a safety zone in which a quarter of a million civilians survived what was later to go down in history as the «Nanking Massacre.»

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.