Sentences with phrase «increasing number of ministry»

Second, the increasing number of ministry entities associated with the SBC created the turn - of - the century version of «donor fatigue» in the convention.

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Catherine Nancekievill, head of vocation for the Church of England recognises there is a «long way to go» until the priesthood reflects the Church's diversity but is «delighted» that increasing numbers of Anglican women «feel that a life in ordained ministry is for them».

The number of persons exercising their ministry through concentration on special functions has greatly increased.

Welcoming the increase the Bishop of Guildford, Andrew Watson, said: «I am delighted at both the number and the range of those whom God has been calling into ordained ministry over the course of the past year.

There are indications that an increasing number of seminary students are coming from larger private and state institutions of higher learning and also that the ministry is attracting a growing number of high caliber students.

46 Mark A. May estimated in 1933 that «since 1870 the number of college - graduate men entering the ministry relative to the needs as measured by increasing population, churches, and clergymen has declined at least forty per cent and possibly as much as seventy per cent.»

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.

There has been an enormous increase in the number and variety of courses offered, an increasing provision of electives, increasing opportunity to prepare for various forms of specialized ministry, and an extension of the seminary's responsibility to include on - the - field operations.

Efforts, however, are being made to correct it by encouraging the development of a kind of ministry which will overcome some of the common defects, by improving the caliber of professional education available to Negroes and by enrolling an increasing number of Negroes in interracial seminaries.29

However, an increasing number of Protestant ministers in this century have complemented attention to the sermon with concern for meaningful worship, pastoral care, religious education, and other avenues of ministry.

By other markers as well, increasing numbers of lay Catholics seem detached from the central beliefs, religious practices and everyday ministries of their church.

The ministry says it hopes to increase the number of beneficiaries to three million by the end of this year.