Sentences with phrase «time as a missionary»

Unique populations: English - language learners, some having joined through the World Relief Refugee Resettlement, others having joinged for a year at a time as missionary furlough families

In my time as a missionary with the Chinese community, I learned that they give away gifts on their birthdays.

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And, at that time, there wasn't as many young men willing to go and be missionaries.

It was not uncommon to see a missionary using a private jet, spending their stay on safaris and first - class hotels, while they give one - time foodstuffs and used clothes as donations.

You would see a missionary using a private jet, spending their stay on safaris, first class hotels, while they give one - time foodstuffs and used clothes as donations, only to take good pictures and videos for their Praise Reports.

As a writer and editor for Time, Conde Nast Portfolio, and Fast Company, he has compiled a portfolio that includes stories on megahit - making Swedish songwriters (a piece for which he went clubbing in Stockholm); James Bond (for which he stood on a Spanish beach and watched Halle Berry emerge from the waves over and over and over); undercover missionaries in the Arab world (he traveled to North Africa and went to church); and the decline of Christianity in Europe (he prayed).

These outreaches have garnered the most attention from the government, which at times has identified Christian missionary activity as a security threat.

Rather than seeing summer as a time to withdraw, members could use these months to devote some of their vacation time to sharing in missionary work projects, or at least visiting church mission projects near their vacation sites.

Speaking at the San Antonio Conference, Lesslie Newbigin made reference to his own cultural background in these terms: «As I look back on my own life as a missionary in India, I realize now in a way that I never did at that time that I was not only carrying the gospel but that I was also a carrier of this so - called modern world - view which I now see to be breaking down because it is falsAs I look back on my own life as a missionary in India, I realize now in a way that I never did at that time that I was not only carrying the gospel but that I was also a carrier of this so - called modern world - view which I now see to be breaking down because it is falsas a missionary in India, I realize now in a way that I never did at that time that I was not only carrying the gospel but that I was also a carrier of this so - called modern world - view which I now see to be breaking down because it is false.

At the same time, it must be said that this ecumenical (to all the inhabited world) sense of the missionary aim was given new impetus by what John R. Mott (Edinburgh, 1910) defined as «the decisive hour of Christian Mission» which called for» the evangelisation of the world in this generation».

Naturally, he incurred the shock and disgust of the other medical missionaries up and down the coast, but time and his meticulously kept medical log proved that his unusually perceptive policy was not as lunatic as it seemed at first.

This was the time when CWM, as a partnership of churches in mission, was born to give expression to a new missionary arrangement for a new era in mission.

(2) Following a wave of persecution a number of Christian missionaries then carried the gospel farther afield, notably to Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch (Acts 11:19); at Antioch, the capital of Syria and a city which ranked with Alexandria as second only to Rome in size and importance, Gentiles were for the, first time admitted into the Church in large numbers, apparently without becoming Jewish proselytes in any full sense.

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.

He grew up in a missionary family in Japan, and then spent some time overseas in Bolivia as well.

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.

The third, the missionary movement as represented by the International Missionary Council did not join World Council of Churches at missionary movement as represented by the International Missionary Council did not join World Council of Churches at Missionary Council did not join World Council of Churches at that time.

«I think that marks her out as a very, very significant Christian missionary and someone who hasn't fully been recognised in the passage of time.»

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 prepareAs 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 prepareas many missionaries that were ten times better prepared.

But as those 144,000 powerful Jewish missionaries travel about the earth, and as they face persecution, famine, danger, nakedness and sword, it will be just like the times of World War II, when people had to choose whether they would help the Jewish people or turn their back upon them.

By the members of the Synod embracing their role as a band of joyful missionary disciples, we here in Southeast Michigan will be strengthened for our vocation «to be all in» with the New Evangelization, to have full confidence in the power of the Holy Spirit to heal and transform, to put uncompromising trust in the Lordship of Jesus over every time and place.

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.

In her current role as both missionary and writer, Mrs. Elliot in a sense perpetuates the career pattern of her distinguished father, Dr. Philip E. Howard, president and editor of The Sunday School Times.

«Does Forefront spend as much time developing Christians into missionaries as it does reaching out to non-Christians?»

At the meeting of the (Protestant) International Missionary Council at Madras in A.D. 1938, among the regularly appointed delegates non-Occidentals were practically as numerous as Occidentals, the first time at one of these world - wide Christian gatherings where this has been the case.

I live in Mexico as a missionary and people feed this junk to their babies all the time, and then they are mean to me when they want to give her some and I say no!

Time after time, we envision a stint as a missionary or a hospital voluntTime after time, we envision a stint as a missionary or a hospital volunttime, we envision a stint as a missionary or a hospital volunteer.

If you read that a guy works as a traveling missionary and eats 100 percent vegan, and you're a hamburger - lovin» atheist, you know to just swipe left and not waste both of your time.

About Blog I was raised as an Adventist Christian, spent some time in public, Baptist, and Adventist schools as well as a missionary in Peru.

It's not a great film, but it looks beautiful, is well - acted (Jeremy Irons is excellent as the passive senior missionary, Robert de Niro as a reformed mercenery and Ray McAnally as a papal representitive and smaller roles for Aidan Quinn, Ronald Pickup and Liam Neeson) and then of course comes the pièce de résistance, one of the greatest contributions to cinema of one of cinema's all - time - greatest contributors, Ennio Morricone.

It is time we shift the paradigm away from either a perspective of urban education as an inevitable failure or a deficit that can only be addressed by benevolent outsiders on a missionary quest of salvation.

«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.»

Then came graduation and I left for two years to serve as a full - time volunteer missionary for my church.

About Blog I was raised as an Adventist Christian, spent some time in public, Baptist, and Adventist schools as well as a missionary in Peru.

09/2012 to 02/2013 Sushi Sampler... Christ of Latter Day Saints － Santiago, Chile Service as a full time missionary in the Spanish language