Sentences with phrase «leaving missionary work»

The Churches of Christ have insisted on leaving missionary work to the initiative of the local church, and any joint efforts are typically coordinated by the elders of a large or particularly active congregation.

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Aren't you discounting the work of missionaries who left family and forsook more lucrative futures, traveled to distant continents, braved hostile societies, climates and disease to build churches, schools, hospitals and other infrastructure, all while sharing the Gospel?

The first missionary came for evangelistic work in October 1834, and tomorrow — April 26, 1971 — the last missionaries would leave.

Between 1899 and 1914 it rallied 4,521 missionaries to leave American shores to work in China, India, Africa, and the Pacific islands.

Christians today are the heirs of a long history of those who left their home countries and churches, apostles, monastics, pilgrims, missionaries, emigrants, to work in the name of Jesus Christ, serving and preaching where the Gospel had not yet been heard or received.

It's thought the missionary didn't know he was infected when his friend, Fr Pajares, left, so he decided to stay in Liberia to continue his work.

Agreed: «don't let the left hand know what the right hand is doing...» Those who «show» their faith, whether through their profession (Pastor, Missionary) or pious works (church board, conference speaker), can only be assessed as more sincere if there is evidence they were religious / pious / faithful when no one was looking (Pope John Paul II never confirmed this, but as a young priest, it was reported he worked in the Polish underground to save many Jewish children from the Nazi's, years later, he was visiting Israel and a woman who claimed he was the priest who saved her from the Nazis stepped forward to meet him, he blessed her, yet never did confirm or deny if he had played the part of a hero).

If you read that a guy works as a traveling missionary and eats 100 percent vegan, and you're a hamburger - lovin» atheist, you know to just swipe left and not waste both of your time.

Anderson left the states to work as a missionary in Britain, and McKinney eventually followed him there.