Sentences with phrase «foreign mission work»

No members were to be admitted who, because of other commitments, would not be free to engage in foreign mission work.

The purpose of the S.V.M. was to enlist students for foreign mission work, and its slogan, «The Evangelization of the World in This Generation,» spoke of their zeal and determination.

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But World War II ended its ambitions, after which Emperor Haile Selassie allowed foreign missions to work among Ethiopian animists for the medical and educational benefits derived in the less developed — and non-Orthodox — southern regions of the nation.

Urbana, Operation Mobilization and many other instruments, including several working with teen - agers, have been raised up to channel converts toward the foreign mission field.

The number of foreign mission workers in Pakistan is impressive, given the tortuous procedures required for obtaining resident and work visas.

Carpenter emphasizes fundamentalists» commitment to foreign missions, noting that as mainline denominations retrenched or withdrew from mission work, the number of fundamentalist missionaries multiplied.

^ 3: The traditional Foreign Mission model doesn't appear to work here, because it starts with the expectation that one will have one convert after ten to fifteen years, of weekly Bible study with a group of ten to twenty people per week.

Because so much of the Methodist work was in reality home missions, their missionary society founded in 1819 made little effort to distinguish between home and foreign missions.

«Empty Fields» is the first exhibition to explore the archive of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) and the Protestant mission work in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey.