Sentences with phrase «minister of a small church»

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Our love of the past conflicts often with your plans for the future; our love of order does not show up on abstract statistics; our tendency to look to each other for affection and support stands against a minister's wish to obtain emotional support away from the small church.

The birth of PIH can be traced back to spring 1994 when Rick Oldland, minister at Oasis Baptist Church (not connected with Steve Chalke), heard about notable goings on at a small Vineyard Church near Toronto Airport.

To become a church in mission St. Andrew had to let go of clericalism and convert the members into ministers; let go of the myth of size and develop a vision of what a small church can do; move beyond «coffee fellowship» in its conception of worship and food; and leave behind traditional notions of church in order to focus on the congregation's mission on the margins.

The minister of a small Pentecostal church answered.

The minister of counseling in a downtown church in Southern California takes the initiative in inviting teen - agers whom he feels could benefit to join small (seven or eight members at the maximum) «self - discovery» groups which meet with him weekly throughout the school year.

Members of small churches served by part - time lay ministers are not necessarily worse off spiritually than their counterparts in large churches — and perhaps they are better off.

The minister of such a church, who has developed two groups, reports that small - town anxiety about secret - breaking sometimes deters deep sharing.

A one in ten minority in society and an even smaller minority in the church (for obvious reasons) and an even smaller minority of ministers (as we are generally denied ministry positions) means that straight people will have to come around at some point before things really improve.

The single minister is now an easier target for the church's small - minded, of which there are plenty.

He is God's clinically depressed man — a former military chaplain, an alcoholic haunted by his son's death in the Iraq War, privately humiliated by the example of Christ and the stern Dutch ministers who once hid runaway slaves under the floorboards of this small clapboard church.

Tortured by the loss of a son he encouraged to enlist in the armed forces, a small - town church minister and ex-military chaplain Ernst Toller (Ethan Hawke) struggles with his faith when a pregnant woman (Amanda Seyfried) and her radical environmentalist husband come to him for counseling.

He stars as Toller, a former military chaplain who's been appointed the minister of a small, historical church on the cusp of its historic reconsecration.

On 11 July Father José Bento Rodovalho, Minister of Shelters, order the immediate inventory of the Church's possessions, decorations and tools; these possessions included silverware, ampoule, two chailces; a pair of cruets with dishes; three panels; ten images of various invocations and heights with silver - leaf; four silver crowns or various sizes; an image of Christ; two cabinets; and a small bell from the belfrey.

«With the civil rights movement, the youth led and the churches followed,» said Fred Small, minister of the Unitarian Universalist First Parish Church in Cambridge, Mass..