Sentences with phrase «country as a missionary»

Having spent twenty years in the country as a missionary, Ferreira has come to the conclusion that «This country is a swamp....

This was originally Wilhelm's role when he went over to the country as a missionary, but when he lived amongst the Chinese and observed their ways of life, he realised they shared a spirituality and philosophy that he believed, by the end of his life, was more preferable to the Western way of thinking and living.

Not exact matches

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.

Those evangelical «old style» missionaries still serving overseas are perceived by liberal / ecumenicals as supporting repressive economic and political systems in developing countries in order to achieve the «stability» that will enable them to gain admittance to those countries and be left free to evangelize.

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.

In the memoirs of Asian and African leaders who were graduates from these schools it has become almost obligatory, as part of an attack upon white Christian colonialism, to express bitterness and recrimination about the loss of native roots that came as a by - product of missionary education and of imperialist schools both in the mission field and in the home country.

It is understood that Squire and fellow Christian charity workers David and Shirley Donovan and Alanna Carson were working as missionaries when they were abducted from their accommodation in Delta State in the south of the country in the early hours of 13th October.

Missionary Pentecostalism includes the efforts of U.S. denominations like the Assemblies of God, as well as missions from Sweden and other European countries.

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?

While Courtney stresses that he doesn't want to set his experience in Iraq up as typifying the norm, his experience provides a clear counter to the narrative that missionaries have to sneak around in closed countries.

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

He saw this in the country where he served as a missionary when Christianity was spreading rapidly.

«We are proud of the robust and diverse faith outreach program employed by the Democratic Party that begins with volunteer faith captains in precincts all across the country and ends with a Chairman who spent a year as a missionary and has made faith outreach among our highest priorities as a Party,» he said, referring to DNC chairman Tim Kaine.

Could you tell me why the majority or the extremists did not try to enforce their Beliefs and Church upon all as did in the previous lands... Although can be seen that they might be working as «Missionaries» towards converting more at overseas countries?

Back in the»60s, we who are now «old timers» thought of ourselves as a new breed of missionaries, well trained in the language and culture of the host country and determined to help its church leaders dismantle the structures of dependency and paternalism.

He notes that immediately after his conversion in the mid 1840s, the Rosminian Lockhart undertook direct missionary work around the villages of Leicestershire, as Gentili had done before him, tramping the country lanes and preaching in the open air, accompanied by a Tyrolese confrere, the two of them resplendent in clerical soutane and feriola.

But I've got friends who have been here for 10 years as pastors and missionaries and still have to go back to their country of citizenship... I mean they're volunteering, leading movements, pastoring churches — much less someone fleeing persecution or poverty or war.

The Catholics alone have the Missionaries of Charities as just one of its many charities which is in 123 countries world wide.

The Vatican - Portuguese Missionary Accord has aligned the Roman Catholic Church and its local hierarchy with the colonial regime in that country, and when all positive efforts of the White Fathers failed to end the flagrant injustices visited on blacks in Mozambique, they decided, according to one report, that «they had to withdraw so as not to allow themselves to be considered partners of the church - state collusion.»

This moral disengagement, broken only by the missionaries — mostly of low - church varieties and not intent upon political change — lasted until after World War II, when the decolonization movement emerged as that war's perhaps most important consequence, though it had not been foreseen and had still less been an aim in the developed countries.

But in Spain and Portugal such numerically feeble Protestant groups as emerged arose out of missionary effort from other countries.

In order to make certain that such statements as these should have more than ephemeral significance, it was proposed that the International Missionary Council should establish, as a part of its organization, a «bureau of social and economic research and information» on problems arising from the contact between Western civilization and undeveloped countries.

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.»

I was captivated by the love of the missionary couple for each other, by their unrelenting belief and faith in what they were doing, and by their interest and selfless compassion for the people they came to know and love in China - a country they quickly took on as their own.

Not only does it provide a wealth of highly readable information about the hilltribes that live in the mountainous area known as the «Golden Triangle» that spans the borders of five South - East Asian countries (see sidebar), but it also provides a study of two other cultural groups that are a mystery to most of us - missionaries and anthropologists!

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

While missionary travel insurance provides a short term medical insurance for trips abroad, you can purchase missionary health insurance that provides a long term major medical insurance which is annually renewable and may provide coverage in various geographic areas including worldwide and sometimes in your home country as well.

He has had significant cross-cultural experience having served as a missionary in four different countries.

They had been members many years ago and are now working as missionaries in another country.