Sentences with phrase «missionary service»

Was responsible for 10 to 20 female missionaries for the last 7 1/2 months of my missionary service.

Some Thoughts on Temples, Retention of Converts, and Missionary Service.

And... we ought... to eulogize it and then bury it... In other words, the most missionary service a missionary under the present system can do today in Asia is to go home.

CNN: Surprise Mormon announcement could open doors for more women missionaries Big news broke in the Mormon world this weekend, when the president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints announced a lowered minimum age requirement for missionary service, most notably for women.

I can not subscribe to the so - called «mystical doctrine of salt water» — the idea that being transported over salt water, the more of it the better, is what constitutes missionary service.

I discover Todd and Andrew have done two weeks of residential outreach training in Preston as they have volunteered to do full - time missionary service for a period of 24 months.

With the European colonization of most of the world and later on with the expansion of the colonial and neo-colonial presence of the western powers, the churches which had their bases mainly in the West have expanded their missionary service to all corners of the earth.

It is on this road, and only on this road, that a pilgrim, missionary Church, which subordinates everything in its heritage to the fulfillment of its mission, will discover the structural form and appropriate organ which will best express its oneness in Christ and contribute most of its missionary service for Christ.

God often elects the small for extraordinary missionary service.

for example: blacks make up less than one percent of the missionary services overseas who have never heard of Jesus.

Not exact matches

Now that Bishop Eddie Long has apologized to the Anti-Defamation League for a service at his New Birth Missionary Baptist Church that purported to crown him a «king,» one has to wonder what Long was thinking.

As a result of her efforts, women were eventually appointed full - fledged foreign missionaries and various social services for women finally received funding.

Both the global missionary work of the church and its service to the poor stem largely from the Pietist revival.

The main service of the Qadianis to Islam consists of their defense of Islam against Christians and the Arya Samaj Hindus and their vigorous missionary activity in Western countries.

The four missionaries were working for a Cambridge - based Christian charity providing free medical services to communities in rural areas around the Niger Delta creeks.

As mystics and missionaries, heroic martyrs and courageous founders of religious orders, in public life as sovereigns or in quiet service in convent or school, the Church's women saints are testimony to the fact that Mother Church takes legitimate pride in her daughters.

Religion News Service: Mormon missionary applications soar by 471 percent Just two weeks since Mormon President Thomas S. Monson announced that young men could go on full - time missions for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints at age 18 (down from 19) and young women could go at 19 (down from 21), the Utah - based church has seen applications skyrocket from an average of 700 a week to 4,000 a week.

In his service as missionary and later as director of the World Council's Theological Education Fund, he had encountered and dissented from the notion that redemptive Christian norms and ideas transform culture by being imported into or imposed on it.

They were the way in which the risen Lord called men to his service; hence to be a witness of the Resurrection was to be a missionary.

The gang kid who commits his life to God and goes on to lead others out of the gang... the prostitute who gives up the life and becomes a missionary... you and I who have given up the ordinary life for a life of service to God through serving man... these are the real miracles.

Beginning with the missionary movement in the early nineteenth century the church began offering ministries to people in special settings or with special problems, including military and hospital chaplains, and service to the disadvantaged in urban, rural, suburban and metropolitan settings.

The spiritual renewal of our communities, their missionary activity, their service to society, and their quest for visible unity are, we are confident, indivisible aspects of the Holy Spirit's work in our day.

In view of the missionary pastor he was, Paul's intention, I can only assume, was to keep the young struggling church focused on its mission of proclamation and service.

At that tender age she made a commitment to God to become a missionary and spend her life in service to Jesus.

Georgi points out that since the missionary activity of the diaspora did not have a central organization, the service of worship in the synagogue was the magnet that drew potential converts.

The articles of missionary spirituality which missionary has to attain are transparency, responsibility, courageous witness, freedom from greed, and the practice of service and diakonia, as found in the Apostle Paul's self - confession in Acts 20.

Twenty years of overseas missionary and ecumenical service had drawn my interest, first, to the traditional and Muslim faiths of Africa and, later, to the religions of Asia.

Some scientists have gone overseas as medical, agricultural, or scientific missionaries and teachers; are there not in America most of the same opportunities for service to mankind and for witness by word and work to one's religious faith?

Hold infants at your local church nursery while the parents attend service; participate in a house build with Habitat for Humanity; mentor a student at a nearby school a few times a month; sponsor a missionary overseas; give wildly beyond the tithe.

Speaking to the massive congregation packed into the Atlanta - area New Birth Missionary Baptist Church for an 8 a.m. service, Long said that «this is probably the most difficult time» of his entire life, but he intends to fight the allegations against him.

After nearly a decade of service in the West African Muslim nation, the Fultons, missionaries from an Assemblies of God church in Britain, experienced a string of difficulties, including a disagreement that led them to part with their local church.

The state might direct, control, and finance missions to non-Christians, but for missionaries they had to look mainly to monks and members of religious orders who had volunteered for that service.

They work as pastors, preachers and priests, teachers and scholars, evangelists and missionaries, writers and editors, administrators of denominational, educational, social service and reform agencies, as chaplains in prisons, hospitals and military establishments.

The teenagers were preparing for a revival in Kansas City; one of the pilots helped run a jungle aviation service for missionaries; another's daughter was a missionary in Paraguay.

Such service of others was also a hallmark of much missionary work in Africa and Asia.

Evangelical and fundamentalist mission agencies have grown in proportion, while mainline bodies have focused more on assisting indigenous ministries, supplying social services, lobbying for social justice through political channels, and even turning the cultural conduit around by sponsoring reverse missionary programs.14 Viewed from only the American context, it appears that mainstream Protestantism has suffered a serious decline in its missionary efforts.

When we returned to the U.S. after this term of service, I could not sympathize with the church people who were quite concerned about the significant decrease in the number of UMC missionaries on the field.

The controversial «missionary» bishop Andy Lines will lead the service which will see nine men become priests and deacons within the Anglican Mission in England (AMiE).

The Anglican Mission in England (AMiE) will hold its first ordination service led by the newly consecrated Missionary Bishop, Andy Lines.

In view of the enormous need and opportunity for missionary witness and service in all six continents, it is appalling that we of the West presently make so small a part of our resources available for this purpose.

For example, it is not uncommon for American Christians to be quite concerned to send missionaries to the Negroes of Africa, and to admire greatly Albert Schweitzer's service to them, and yet to stand rigidly for segregation in one's own community or church.

Today, just 20 short years later, he oversees the Christian Broadcasting Network which, from its $ 50 - million headquarters in Virginia Beach, incorporates four television stations, six radio stations, a missionary radio station, a recording company, a programming service which makes 24 - hour - a-day programming available to the more than 3,000 cable systems in the U.S.A. and Canada, a news network, a university, and a satellite earth station.

Lesslie Newbigin, the former missionary and bishop of the Church of South India who had himself attended the «38 meeting, opened the discussion with a message at the commemoration service.

A blog posted to Missionaries in Service to Africa explain child beggars in Addis Ababa by stating, «TIA» or, This Is Africa — as if that was explanation enough.

The two - phase project, estimated to cost $ 2.2 million, will allow the First Calvary Missionary Baptist Church at 467 William St. to provide religious services, community outreach, a soup kitchen, a computer lab and youth mentoring services, accordin...

We must prepare teachers — not for missionary work, but for public service.

To formalize and further expand these service efforts, Deseret First established the Deseret First Charitable Foundation (DFCF) where donated funds are used to help outfit missionaries of any age from elder, sister, to a senior couple.

Here are some ideas from Deseret First Credit Union to help prospective missionaries and their families save for that momentous day when the black name tag is put on and the child sent off to become a man or woman in the service of their fellow men.

Travel medical insurance for missionaries does not only cover medical expenses; it also offers reimbursement for emergency evacuation services.

In the event that missionaries find themselves in an emergency situation, these companies can help them contact emergency services in their localities and get them out of trouble in the shortest time possible.