Sentences with phrase «missionary work from»

For Sweeney, crucial moments of understanding came while he was serving as a missionary in the Philippines and began to see missionary work from the standpoint of the missionized.

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I find it amazing that almost every organized religion during that time was at least partially, if not fully involved in bigotry toward blacks, including outright banning them from their membership and congretations altogether (which Mormans have never done), but only Mormons are still chided constantly about their history with blacks, despite the fact that black members have had full benefits for almost four decades, and despite the fact that Mormons have been actively proselyting and doing charitable missionary work in Africa for over 160 years.

The general working theory for Christian missionaries was first formalized in St. Augustine's doctrine of «cognite intrare», or «compel them to enter», but was perhaps best summed up by J. C. Warner some 1500 years later: ``... the sword must first — not exterminate them, but — break them up as tribes, and destroy their political existence; after which, when thus set free from the shackles by which they are bound, civilisation and Christianity will no doubt make rapid progress among them.»

The latest in the reported «Three Rectifications and One Demolition» campaign comes from the city of Ningbo, where famous missionary James Hudson Taylor once worked.

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

Editor's Note: The son of missionary parents, Mark Lutz is Senior Vice President at Opportunity International, a non-profit microfinance organization, and author of the new book UnPoverty: Rich Lessons from the Working Poor.

The church appears as the executor of missionary work, the centre from which all else radiates.

It is understood that Squire and fellow Christian charity workers David and Shirley Donovan and Alanna Carson were working as missionaries when they were abducted from their accommodation in Delta State in the south of the country in the early hours of 13th October.

Carpenter emphasizes fundamentalists» commitment to foreign missions, noting that as mainline denominations retrenched or withdrew from mission work, the number of fundamentalist missionaries multiplied.

And yet, according to Franz Damen, a Catholic missionary from Belgium who works in Bolivia, «every hour an average of 400 Catholics become members of Pentecostal sects.»

It was during Kao - tsung's reign that Christian missionaries began to extend their work from one centre at Chang» An to other cities.

The expansion of Christianity in the East was not the work of Hellenistic Christian missionaries from Antioch, or a linear progression from Antioch.

From the end of the fifth century, Nestorian missionaries were working in Central Asia and there was a possibility of Christians coming into contact with the Chinese.

According to Senate staffers working for the Senate bill, Nickles believed that the Wolf - Specter bill's provisions for automatic sanctions against the worst persecuting countries would lead to fruitless confrontations, negative fallout on indigenous Christians and missionaries, and an America isolated from its allies.

Proove what you have said... Read about «eternal marraige», «free agency», «missionary work», and «spreading the gospel»... as well as any other question / statement you might have... and get it from the horses mouth instead of from some second hand account before you post comments about something you just don't understand... make sure you post the whole article you found by way of link and not just paraphase to make it say what you want it to say.

This was especially true for me after attending a denominational college and working overseas with missionaries from my church tradition.

This has happened through the migrations of peoples from Europe as well as through the work of missionaries.

Several factors contributed to this development, including developments in the mission field and the pressure from the younger churches for unity, experiences of the churches in Europe during the two world wars, the political situation in the West, the theological developments in Europe, and the ecumenical discussions on church unity in the Life and Work and Faith and Order movements and their influence on the missionary movement.

Furthermore, even though the missionary may be exhausted from working overseas, they feel compelled to visit people in their homes and go speak in a myriad of churches just so that they can maintain their financial support.

In 1834, seven workers from the ABCFM Ceylon Mission went Madurai to begin the AMM.7 Among the five North American missionaries, only the Rev. Levi Spaulding knew enough Tamil to begin work immediately.

I dealt with 15 or so volunteer - in - mission teams while serving in the Dominican Republic, and I know from this experience that career missionaries should try to prepare the way for such teams and help them become oriented to the situation in which they will be working.

It was this which prevented them from undertaking any missionary work among the «depressed classes».

CARREFOUR, Haiti (AP)-- Haitian authorities have closed an orphanage outside the capital following complaints of neglect and abuse from U.S. missionaries working in the troubled country.

Among people after people, from the most numerous on the globe, the Chinese, to some of the smallest, the inauguration of modern education of the sort developed in the Occident was chiefly the work of missionaries and their converts.

I would say these days, in general, missionaries, at least the ones we work with, really try to incorporate ethnomusicology and traditional practices as much as possible from the beginning.

interesting topic.A lot of damage was done in south africa by white missionaries.they didn't come to bring messiah they came to bring western culture into africa.there are so many beautiful things about indigineous cultures that have been robbed and destroyed.so as a follower of messiah i tend to stay as far away from «missionary» work and i just try to listen to people's stories.

My parents come from a country that was colonized until recently by the French, and I'm therefore always uncomfortable when «missionary work» or bringing the Gospel to our «brothers & sisters in the dark» are mentioned in the context of church communities working abroad.

One member of the council was heard to remark to his neighbor, «If this is the kind of program that missionary councils are interested in, we had better withdraw from them and devote ourselves to spiritual 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).

Father Campbell who is originally from Ireland has been in Ghana since 1971 undertaking missionary and humanitarian work.

But one might ask whether that swelling in the temporal sulcus results not from the motivation to do missionary work in Gabon, but rather from a pulsing desire to procure the proverbial 15 minutes of fame that is so endemic to the ethos of today's wired youth culture.

We stayed with her family, as she was originally from that part of Ireland but had been living in the US for a couple of years after marrying an American whom she met while working as a missionary in Bangladesh.

While it doesn't ask the kind of deep, difficult spiritual questions that something like Shadowlands does, nor does it shy away from demonstrating the problems that come from such devotion, whether it be Eric's quarrels with Jennie about missionary work or his refusal to run on the Sabbath.

The novel is alternately told from there different perspectives: June Han, who is orphaned as an 11 - year - old during the Korean War, then eventually moves to New York City after living in an orphanage in Yongin; Hector Brennan, an American GI who works at the orphanage then becomes a janitor in New Jersey; and Sylvie Tanner, the wife of a missionary who helps run the orphanage.

The Surrendered is told from three points of view: a young Korean girl who is a refugee of the war; an American soldier who ends up working for the orphanage where she lives; and the woman who is married to the missionary who runs the orphanage.

In this work Kader Attia investigates the Vatican's holdings of art from Africa, much of which was plundered by Christian missionaries in the context of their evangelization efforts on...

The work of 15 internationally renown contemporary African photographers juxtaposed with missionary photography presents a starting point to trace the prevailing stereotypes that percolate beneath the surface; thereby tackling the notion that — framing a culture from without the meaning of that culture becomes distorted.

The gift from the collector, scholar, and advocate, includes works by Sam Doyle, «Missionary» Mary Proctor, and Purvis Young.

I work with individuals, couples, and families struggling through issues such as addiction that create distance among those they love; with individuals pursuing spiritual healing from emotional wounds; and with people grappling with cultural identity, transition, and stress, such as missionaries and children of missionaries.

In addition, Marta also provides online counseling for cross-cultural workers, humanitarian aid workers, and missionaries from California who are living and working abroad.

From a spiritual viewpoint each class is responsible for missionary work both in our community and in the world.

thanks... I came over from the Relevant linky... this was all such good stuff... I'm behind in all of this because I just really started my writing blog a couple of months ago... and had only heard a little of Relevant and wanted to go, but to quick to work out logistics... anyhow, this is a super main point post as I came over lamenting I missed Relevant and also lamenting that, Lord willing — oh my, what a mess I am, I'll be living overseas as a missionary in Eastern Europe the next Relevant: (and:)