Sentences with phrase «first congregation»

Small first congregations want to flourish as institutions.

When you arrive in your first congregation you must understand no one is interested in reading your senior year systematics summary, and a wise first - year pastor will keep his GPA to himself.

This is the first congregation I've allowed to see Me more clearly; most can't comprehend.

The Baptist prophet Carlyle Marney said that one time he had a couple of preacher - boys in his study telling him all of the plans they had for ministry in their first congregations.

In my first congregation I decided within the first few weeks that I needed to confront racism.

Under an appointive system a minister's first congregation has probably been the victim of a rapid succession of inexperienced clergy who never stayed long enough to share the benefits of the experience won at the congregation's expense.

I suspect that one of the reasons the stress peaks at two years is that by then the realization has dawned on the aspiring prophet that the congregation has more power to get what it wants from the new minister than the new minister has to get what he or she wants from the first congregation.

I decided not to share the memories of my first congregation served as a pastor until one specific person died.

«Here a set of poor Irishmen [Newman's first congregation, in Alcester Street, Birmingham, was in large part made up of poor Irish immigrants], coming and going at harvest time, or a colony of them lodged in a miserable quarter of a vast metropolis.

Elizabeth was rewarded in 1809 when, after years of struggling to provide for her children and find her calling, a group of émigré Sulpician priests, with the support of Bishop John Carroll of Baltimore, not only took care of her children, but helped Elizabeth establish the first congregation of religious sisters in the United States, the Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph's.

Under such circumstances, the Holy Spirit came and transformed that small collection of people into the first congregation of the Christian church.

Kiki Smith and Deborah Gans» project was selected from 12 proposals to redesign the grand window, the focal point of the 123 - year - old synagogue, built by the first congregation of Russian Jews in America.