Sentences with phrase «for young missionaries»

Even so, for the Japanese church in general and for young missionaries like myself who heard many of his lectures, Brunner's impact was incalculable.

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, the response was that these young people for being missionaries for couple of years, receive some sort of credits for university..

Religion News Service: Mormon missionary applications soar by 471 percent Just two weeks since Mormon President Thomas S. Monson announced that young men could go on full - time missions for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints at age 18 (down from 19) and young women could go at 19 (down from 21), the Utah - based church has seen applications skyrocket from an average of 700 a week to 4,000 a week.

Sham Pearls for Real Swine by franky schaeffer wolgemuth & hyatt, 290 pages, $ 14.95 In 1948, a young American minister from the conservative Bible Presbyterian Church moved to Lausanne, Switzerland, to serve as a missionary to Europe.

My favorite part was «Their policy of recruiting and proselytizing young people to become missionaries, with promises of a low - cost education and a good career, is for the sole purpose of adding new members who are willing to add to the coffers of the church.»

As Leslie Newbigin pointed out, the problems posed for missions by the rise of the younger churches, the end of colonialism, and the development of inter-church aid on a massive scale were questions about the forms and patterns of missionary action.

We owe it to the Younger Churches, which join the Council, to provide for them an ecumenical milieu in which the missionary calling pervades the whole atmosphere.

Several factors contributed to this development, including developments in the mission field and the pressure from the younger churches for unity, experiences of the churches in Europe during the two world wars, the political situation in the West, the theological developments in Europe, and the ecumenical discussions on church unity in the Life and Work and Faith and Order movements and their influence on the missionary movement.

She has paved the way for countless young missionaries and leads by example.

Older couples may also be missionaries, acting as guides and mentors for their younger compatriots.

Something approaching missionary zeal for the rural ministry has developed in this century as an increasing number of young men have decided to devote themselves to it.

(The same state made the news on Christmas Eve the year before for another string of attacks connected to Saraswati, and in 1999 when Hindu radicals burned missionary Graham Staines and his two young sons to death as they slept in their Jeep.

Hiebert's concern at this point is to bridge between the universal gospel of Scripture and the particular cultures in which missionaries and pastors of younger churches live and labor for Christ.

By this time, it also became clear to the missionary enterprise that it was no longer possible to discuss profitably, in an international meeting, the building of the Kingdom of God in India or China or Africa with the almost complete absence of Indians or Chinese or Africans.9 In a statement before the Conference, the IMC hoped that Jerusalem would afford an opportunity, for the first time, for the representatives of the older and younger churches to consider together how the relationship between the churches might be made mutually helpful.10 Out of the two hundred and thirty one members at the Jerusalem Conference, only fifty - two (about one - fourth) were from the younger churches.

They were associated with the missionary training centres where the younger sons of the Spanish nobility were prepared for their all - too - brief working life expanding the frontiers of the spiritual empire in the Amazonian jungles.

She's the matron saint for cool moms everywhere, not to mention new divorcees who, after tolerating wan missionary sex with their milquetoast mates, full - throatedly take in the excitement of no - strings - attached sex with much younger, stupider men.

Synopsis & Cast: A young, idealistic American missionary (Benjamin Walker, in a role originally rumored for Aaron Paul) gets caught up in Cold War intrigue when he tries to help a young woman («Lore» star Saskia Rosendahl) escape 1960s East Berlin.

· Prolific science fiction and fantasy writer Dave Duncan's «Against the Light» tells the story of a young, magical missionary's arrest for heresy and treason in the land of Albi.

The Surrendered is told from three points of view: a young Korean girl who is a refugee of the war; an American soldier who ends up working for the orphanage where she lives; and the woman who is married to the missionary who runs the orphanage.

Having the prospective missionary put money away from a young age for his or her mission accomplishes more than just a pile of money in the bank for when they turn 18 or 19; it helps create and instill a true feeling of ownership over one the most formative experiences in their lives.