Sentences with phrase «new young pastor»

But when a new young pastor was hired, he wanted a cooler band to get more young people, and the first thing to go were the older women.

Not exact matches

As a pastor, Young's income «was all over the place,» he says, and so were the gigs — he was constantly moving his family to a different town or state with every new church.

My wife and have have a retired pastor friend who early on in his pastoral career, with the help of several new, young couples challenged the bullies in the church.

Long, senior pastor of New Birth Missionary Church in suburban Atlanta, was accused by four young men in September of using his spiritual authority to coerce them into sexual relationships.

The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every hand and far down the receding and fading spread of roofs and balconies a fulttering wilderness of flags flashed in the sun; daily the young volunteers marched down the wide avenue gay and fine in their new uniforms, the proud fathers and mothers and sisters and sweethearts cheering them with voices choked with happy emotion as they swung by; nightly the packed mass meetings listened, panting, to patriot oratory with stirred the deepest deeps of their hearts, and which they interrupted at briefest intervals with cyclones of applause, the tears running down their cheeks the while; in the churches the pastors preached devotion to flag and country, and invoked the God of Battles beseeching His aid in our good cause in outpourings of fervid eloquence which moved every listener.

Set parallel in time, place and theme to Gilead, her prizewinning novel of 2004, Marilynne Robinson's new novel, Home, takes the reader inside the home of retired Presbyterian pastor Robert Boughton for another perspective on Jack Boughton, the black sheep of the family, who left Gilead as a young man after fathering a child.

That was provided in my sophomore and junior years by a new headmaster, Pastor Albue, a bright, personable and athletic young missionary, the idol of the high school students.

Pastors of an older generation might be scandalised at the admission, but 34 - year - old Smith is at the forefront of a new wave of young church leaders who have grown up alongside a digital revolution where it's ok to be human.

The new senior pastor of the 4,300 - member Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, Alabama, recently turned 28, so maybe the jokes about him being so young will stop.

A new team of pastor and young assistant have been appointed to the church, and members voice the hope that «the suitor has now penetrated the thorns.»

Recently, a pastor at an Evangelical church in New York City (we have them) told me about a young man in his congregation who had joined an online dating site.

A short time before the depression struck, a young pastor left his parish in Detroit and went to teach at Union Theological Seminary in New York City.

At Oakland the Saturday - night talks are devoted to racial reconciliation, beginning with Boone, a thin, young pastor and president of New Generation Campus Ministries in Richmond, Virginia.

The pastor encouraged members to talk about what had happened in each year, and, as they talked, a scribe noted key phrases in the stories at the appropriate place on the paper: «great music festival,» «administrative mess,» «Mrs. Chairperson dies,» «young people ask for a different type of worship,» «new kitchen.»

Not surprisingly, problems arose for «innovative young pastors faced with traditional don't - change - anything older adults and new pastors in churches that had just experienced long - gratifying pastorates,» the study said.

King's announcement came a week after Bishop Eddie Long, senior pastor of New Birth Missionary Church, settled out of court with four young men who filed lawsuits against him last year claiming he coerced them into sexual relationships.

Bishop Eddie Long, the pastor of the Georgia - based New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, has just settled out of court with the four young men who alleged Long had sexually coerced them.

In Troubled Water (Film Movement), soft - spoken convict Jan (Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen) starts a new life for himself as a church organist who brings services to life with his music and even stirs the interest of the female pastor, a single mother with a sweet young boy.

Stage Door presents a new production of Bill C. Davis» two - character play about a complacent elderly pastor and an idealistic young deacon.

I became a pastor's wife at the young age of 23 (and also a new mom nine months later!)!