Sentences with phrase «directed by the missionary»

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Another surprise event at this year's convention was the decision to reject the effort by some to change the auxiliary status of the Woman's Missionary Union, a missions - support group, and bring it under the direct control of the convention.

Movements such as de-colonization, the rise of Communism — especially the expulsion of missionaries from China by the Communists — and the attempt to vindicate Human Rights culminating in the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) have direct and indirect impact on mission understanding.

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.

The «calm conservation» vision of the Church which is so prevalent in certain circles today comes under direct challenge by the movements» vision of a missionary Church courageously projected toward new frontiers.

Machine Gun Preacher is directed by Marc Forster (Quantum of Solace, Stranger Than Fiction) and is based on the true story of an alcoholic ex-con who finds purpose in his life when he becomes a missionary and begins to build an orphanage for the children of South Sudan.

Finding Your Feet is directed by veteran English filmmaker Richard Loncraine, of the films Bellman and True, The Missionary, Richard III, Wimbledon, Firewall, My One and Only, 5 Flights Up and The Special Relationship previously.