Sentences with phrase «of young missionaries»

Conventional Christianity paid little attention to Mormonism as long as LDS proselytizing was done mainly by pairs of young missionaries sent out from Salt Lake City.

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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 response was that these young people for being missionaries for couple of years, receive some sort of credits for university..

Every young member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints (LDS) is strongly encouraged to spend up to two years in missionary work somewhere in the world.

Washington (CNN)- The scene at a Mormon congregation here on a recent Sunday would surprise Americans who think of Mormons as young white missionaries in stiff white shirts, black ties and name tags.

Lawsuits filed Tuesday in DeKalb County, Georgia, allege that Long used his position as a spiritual authority and bishop to coerce young male members and employees of his New Birth Missionary Baptist Church into sex.

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.

But every younger church will seek further to bear witness to the same Gospel with new tongues» (International Missionary Council, «The Growing Church: The Madras Series,» Papers Based upon the Meeting of the International Missionary Council, at Tambaram, Madras, India, December 12 - 29, 1938.

Doubtless this pleasant young man soon found someone unacquainted with Joseph Smith's Testimony, that ubiquitous missionary tract which contains the official account of the prophet's visions and his discovery of the ancient record chronicling the lives and times, vicissitudes and final destruction of a Hebraic people whose patriarch immigrated to America with his family in 600 BC.

In Denver, the young lay missionaries of Christ in the City do the same.

The missionaries are careful to teach the young churches biblical principles of authority and organization.

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.

My favorite part was «Their policy of recruiting and proselytizing young people to become missionaries, with promises of a low - cost education and a good career, is for the sole purpose of adding new members who are willing to add to the coffers of the church.»

The success of Totus Tuus is such that interest in serving as a missionary is spread by word of mouth among young Catholics involved at their Newman Centres and Catholic campuses.

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.

Serving in Paris, France, she is among the 52,000 Mormon missionaries - most of them young adults; the others retired couples - who are knocking on doors and speaking 107 different languages in 180 countries, according to Lyman Kirkland, a church spokesman.

One Dr Snelling is a young - earth creationist missionary who follows the CSF's Statement of Faith to the letter.

Revivalism brought fresh impulses into student life, rallied the women and young people into many societies, poured out thousands of missionaries, produced new groups to work in the slums, created institutions of mercy and charity.

In our time through the growth of the younger churches, through a discovery of our evangelistic task in many countries, the Spirit makes us aware of the great need to grasp and clarify the essential connection between the missionary function of the Church (its apostolate) and its obligation to be one (its catholicity).

As Leslie Newbigin pointed out, the problems posed for missions by the rise of the younger churches, the end of colonialism, and the development of inter-church aid on a massive scale were questions about the forms and patterns of missionary action.

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.

Even so, for the Japanese church in general and for young missionaries like myself who heard many of his lectures, Brunner's impact was incalculable.

Something approaching missionary zeal for the rural ministry has developed in this century as an increasing number of young men have decided to devote themselves to it.

They found what was left of a dream: a few personal effects, an overturned pot of beans, and, in the water, the bodies of four young missionaries.

(The same state made the news on Christmas Eve the year before for another string of attacks connected to Saraswati, and in 1999 when Hindu radicals burned missionary Graham Staines and his two young sons to death as they slept in their Jeep.

As a young missionary trying to make initial sense out of the whole discussion of contextualization, I found his comment most intriguing.

By 1928 the reality of the «church» in the existence of the younger churches as the fruit of the missionary activity, had forced itself upon the attention of the missionary movement.

The terminology of «daughter» or «younger» churches had begun to emerge out of this colonial period to describe churches planted by missionaries.

Hiebert's concern at this point is to bridge between the universal gospel of Scripture and the particular cultures in which missionaries and pastors of younger churches live and labor for Christ.

By this time, it also became clear to the missionary enterprise that it was no longer possible to discuss profitably, in an international meeting, the building of the Kingdom of God in India or China or Africa with the almost complete absence of Indians or Chinese or Africans.9 In a statement before the Conference, the IMC hoped that Jerusalem would afford an opportunity, for the first time, for the representatives of the older and younger churches to consider together how the relationship between the churches might be made mutually helpful.10 Out of the two hundred and thirty one members at the Jerusalem Conference, only fifty - two (about one - fourth) were from the younger churches.

It was in confronting the younger churches in the mission field that Jerusalem came to face the reality of the church in missionary thinking.

In a sense, we could say that in facing the problem of the relationship between older and younger churches, the missionary movement was confronted with the question of the relationship between church and mission.

Under those heavy shadows, representatives of the Western missionary agencies and the «younger» churches met to ponder a new fact a global Christianity.

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).

Peter Cartwright, the Methodist itinerant, disdainfully said, «About this time there were a great many young missionaries sent out to this country to civilize and Christianize the poor heathen of the west.»

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.

Hence he ridiculcd the «many young missionaries sent out... to civilize and Christianize the poor heathen of the West.»

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.

They were associated with the missionary training centres where the younger sons of the Spanish nobility were prepared for their all - too - brief working life expanding the frontiers of the spiritual empire in the Amazonian jungles.

She's the matron saint for cool moms everywhere, not to mention new divorcees who, after tolerating wan missionary sex with their milquetoast mates, full - throatedly take in the excitement of no - strings - attached sex with much younger, stupider men.

Like private elementary and secondary schools, some private colleges and universities in Hawaii, like Chaminade University and Brigham Young University - Hawaii, were established to educate the children of missionary families on the islands.

With the guidance of Joseph Owens, a young Catholic missionary, Jones applied to Holy Cross College in Massachusetts, where he was accepted and awarded a scholarship - becoming the first person in his family to attend college.

A fearsome dragon roams the Land of Dis, and only one man can stop it: an awkward young missionary named Wyngalf.

A daring, spellbinding tale of anthropologists, missionaries, demon possession, sexual taboos, murder, and an obsessed young reporter named Mischa Berlinski.

His search leads him to the origins of modern anthropology — and into the family history of Martiya's victim, a brilliant young missionary whose grandparents left Oklahoma to preach the Word in the 1920s and never went back.

· Prolific science fiction and fantasy writer Dave Duncan's «Against the Light» tells the story of a young, magical missionary's arrest for heresy and treason in the land of Albi.

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.

Having the prospective missionary put money away from a young age for his or her mission accomplishes more than just a pile of money in the bank for when they turn 18 or 19; it helps create and instill a true feeling of ownership over one the most formative experiences in their lives.

I remember the photo travelogue of a young doctor who had joined a mission in the jungles of West Africa, and who had described his slow acceptance of the food, and later, the death of a fellow missionary.

At 31 years old, the young Catholic missionary was beheaded by order of a mandarin, during a time when proselytizing was outlawed in northern Vietnam.