Sentences with phrase «mission efforts»

Once a year members of the congregation gathered to make financial pledges to support missions efforts.

In a word, national and world missions should grow out of and extend the local mission efforts.

«The irony is that her name has been used to raise money for Southern Baptist mission efforts while the denomination's leaders have maintained a policy of women being subservient to men.

Blacks have traditionally directed their modest foreign mission efforts to the Caribbean islands and to Africa.

The largest percentage of Cooperative Program dollars (nearly 73 percent) find their way into mission efforts, predominantly church planting.

Christianity Today circled India from north to south and back again for two weeks in order to witness the innovative and successful mission efforts of Indian evangelicals — this, despite rising persecution from Hindu nationalists.

It seems heretical even to suggest it, but it may be time to return to the earlier, essentially free - market model of mission support — encouraging individuals and churches to support the specific mission efforts they choose.

Acquiring its new name of the «Christian» century in 1900, the magazine still held out hopes that the world could be Christianized, fostering the same imperialistic evangelism that had characterized Protestant mission effort for 50 years.

In many ways, he was a victim of his own success, a pastor on the frontlines of a flourishing international partnership between a church of immigrants in the United States and an ambitious mission effort in El Salvador.

He and his wife, Barbara, former missionaries in the Southern Baptist Convention, co-direct the Fellowship's global missions effort.

It was a shared mission effort between the U.S. and Japan using Spacelab.

Creates and distributes public relations including press releases and materials to support organization marketing and social mission efforts.

Some people who would never give $ 2,000, or $ 1,000,000 for that matter, for a church to spend on a mission effort, will give that amount for the church to build a facility that can attract and equip others to give and go.

In general, churches choose to associate with the SBC (or any of the other Baptist bodies) because it allows them to cooperate with other autonomous congregations to accomplish shared goals: mission efforts, public witness, theological education, etc..

It may be time again to encourage individuals and congregations to support the mission efforts they believe in.

Fortunately, higher motives than these were primarily responsible for stepped - up mission efforts.

Relationships with those of other faiths should not be items added on to the Christian agenda but ought to be at the heart of much of our mission efforts.

Last week, I wrote a post about the personal conflict I often feel when asked to support a mission effort directed toward European Catholics.

Firstly, at the end of each mission your efforts yield three treasure chests.