Active in her church as a Sunday school teacher and a women's Bible study leader, she and her husband have also
served as missionaries in Ukraine, delivering humanitarian relief to orphanages and hospitals.
As y ’ all know, John and I both have a huge heart for Africa and, more specifically, Kenya — as we have
both served as missionaries there over the last couple years.
Tim was born and raised in the Philippines, where his parents
served as missionaries with Wycliffe Bible Translators.
Among those who have been absent are members who grew up steeped in Mormonism, faithfully
served as missionaries and have families still active in the church.
I am also a life long Mormon, having
served as a missionary just like many, many other LDS men and women.
To illustrate my point I'll give you an example: While
serving as a Missionary in Italy, one day I prayed for a miracle; a few hours later my companion and I were stopped by some business guy standing behind his car.
In a poignant moment in the film, Liddell tells his sister that he has decided to return to China to
serve as a missionary.
Sham Pearls for Real Swine by franky schaeffer wolgemuth & hyatt, 290 pages, $ 14.95 In 1948, a young American minister from the conservative Bible Presbyterian Church moved to Lausanne, Switzerland, to
serve as a missionary to Europe.
Martin Scorese's film adaptation of the acclaimed book tells the story of persecution, martyrdom and faith involving two Jesuit priests who
serve as missionaries to Japan in the 1600s.
Kelly Carke from north eastern Texas succumbed to strong currents while undertaking a rescue attempt in Costa Rica, where he was
serving as a missionary.
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.
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.
Mark Eekhoff explains what happened when he left the comfort of his home in the West to
serve as a missionary in Africa More
He saw this in the country where
he served as a missionary when Christianity was spreading rapidly.
And many monks and nuns, in response to the gospel stories of Jesus» ministry, became active in the world,
serving as missionaries to areas of Europe not yet Christian, caring for the poor, preaching and teaching.
The movie tells the story of Jesuit priests (played by Liam Neeson and Andrew Garfield), who are persecuted for their faith while
serving as missionaries to Japan in 1639.
Like many young Mormon athletes before him, Jabari Parker will be encouraged to
serve as a missionary — but not compelled
This romantic coming of age story is based on the memoirs of John H. Groberg, who
served as a missionary in the remote Tongan Islands in the 1950's.
«Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me» John 5:39 Although The Simple Gospel is a compilation of articles and essays written by Jon Cardwell while
serving as a missionary - pastor in remote bush Alaska (2002 - 2008), the hope behind this little book is to exhort earnest Bible reading, study and meditations among Christians in these dark times; and further, to encourage an eye upon the scriptures from a perspective that is gospel honoring, Christ exalting, and God glorifying.Jon has often said from the pulpit, «The gospel of Jesus Christ is simple; but it's not simplistic.»
When younger,
he served as a missionary in Europe.
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serves as a missionary in the community.
He has had significant cross-cultural experience having
served as a missionary in four different countries.
We will always remember Christmas 1986 when we were in training to
serve as missionaries by living cross culturally with a family in northern Mexico.
Not exact matches
Boots celebrated life with her family, traveled the world,
served as a medical
missionary, and drove convertibles.
A son of
missionary parents who spent most of his life and career in Latin America, he had
served as president of a conference in the American South for the past five years.
Those evangelical «old style»
missionaries still
serving overseas are perceived by liberal / ecumenicals
as supporting repressive economic and political systems in developing countries in order to achieve the «stability» that will enable them to gain admittance to those countries and be left free to evangelize.
He subsequently
served his own two - year stint
as a
missionary in California.
He selectively used
missionary reports from the foreign field when they
served his purposes but otherwise dismissed them
as useless.
As in past centuries of Christian conversion, the
missionary and military sometimes went hand in hand, each
serving the purposes of the other, and not always in a manner or a spirit consonant with the spirit of Christ.
Thus, what Geevarghese Mar Osthatios calls «rescue the perishing» [5] motive
served as the spiritual springboard
as well
as the main goal of the modern
missionary movement.
While the action - oriented nature of mission
as witness
serves as a corrective means to traditional
missionary paradigm, it also brings with it the tendency to limit mission to social activism.
It has been making this contribution over the years
as missionaries have gone to remote places to
serve «the last, the least, the lost» and
as education in world - mindedness has been given in many
missionary societies across the land.
Bishop Long
served as the Senior Pastor of New Birth
Missionary Baptist Church in Atlanta.
Pike modeled this throughout his career, self - identifying both
as a
missionary and a scholar until his death on December 31, 2000 — all the while demonstrating that evangelicals could effectively
serve God with both the heart and the mind.
Each team has a returning veteran who
serves as the leader and ensures that the new
missionaries are well apprenticed in the many aspects i their demanding work.
Kempton
served as president of ABWE for more than 30 years, during which time Donn Ketcham, a
missionary in Bangledesh, was terminated for sexual abuse of a female minor.
Faced with this grim reality,
missionaries have often adopted a professed purpose to
serve as their excuse for entering a closed - off country.
She was joined by Bishop Eddie Long, senior pastor of New Birth
Missionary Church in Georgia, where she
served as an elder at the time.
I
serve the Lord
as a
missionary to Portugal.
As one well - informed American Protestant missionary told me, his cause would have been better served if the West had sent one - tenth as many missionaries that were ten times better prepare
As one well - informed American Protestant
missionary told me, his cause would have been better
served if the West had sent one - tenth
as many missionaries that were ten times better prepare
as many
missionaries that were ten times better prepared.
In addition to the original twelve apostles, the Bible speaks of apostles who
served as traveling
missionaries, teaching and leading the early church
as it endured persecution and struggled through religious growing pains.
Nowhere is the
missionary invasion more evident than on the island of Hispanola, where I recently
served as a pastor in the Dominican Evangelical Church in the city of Barahona in the Dominican Republic.
My parents were Open Bible pastors, many of my uncles and aunts were
missionaries, and one uncle
served as the denomination's president.
The fact is that the «foreign»
missionary presence in the life of any church should
serve as a particular reminder of the «alien» nature of the gospel to every nation and culture.
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served for 17 years
as a Free Methodist
missionary in Mexico, then for 10 years
as Latin America Area Director for Free Methodist World Missions and in July of 2007 was elected a bishop of the Free Methodist Church of North America.
«A frankly
missionary program,» wrote Stanford professor Linda Darling - Hammond in an oft - cited 1994 Phi Delta Kappan article, «TFA has recruiters and advocates who have focused much of their attention on the advantaged college graduates for whom TFA
serves as something useful to do on their way to their - real jobs» in law, medicine, or business.»
«We recognized we could keep polishing up some old tires or we could put new tires on with some tread on them,» said Rev. Copeland, who also
serves as pastor of New Zion
Missionary Baptist Church in Rockford.
Helquist
served as a Mormon
missionary in Hong Kong, then earned a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts from Brigham Young University, and has lived in New York City since 1993.
Yes she entertained dreams of being a
missionary, but those dreams are built on self - aggrandizing fantasies: images of her being carried on a «magnificent schooner with sails like angel wings» (a marked contrast to the slave ship that transported Ajarry to her fate); her
as a courageous and heroic savior received by grateful and adoring natives «lifting her to the sky, praising her name: Ethel, Ethel» (I thought
missionaries served to praise God, not Saint Ethel).
Then came graduation and I left for two years to
serve as a full - time volunteer
missionary for my church.