Sentences with phrase «to grow congregations»
The personality of the pastor is crucial to a large, growing congregation in a way that is not true for smaller congregations.
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In 2010, the couple moved onto the Lincoln Estate in Tower Hamlets (one of the most deprived areas in London) with the aim of growing a congregation of seven people who were then meeting at All Hallows Bow.
All with a goal to grow the congregation with more donor - members and build more and / or bigger buildings, hire more pastors and administration — which, as we all know, is the true measure of success for churches here in America.
About Blog Arab First United Methodist Church is a vibrant, loving, and growing congregation committed to the Wesleyan spirit and to the balance of the head, hands, and heart.
I've been on staff in small, rural congregations and on megachurches — including one of the ten fastest growing congregations in America for a time.
As an adult, I attended various non-denominational churches, but so many of them were more about growing the congregation and offering entertainment choices, then about teaching folks to have relationships with Christ and each other.
About Blog Arab First United Methodist Church is a vibrant, loving, and growing congregation committed to the Wesleyan spirit and to the balance of the head, hands, and heart.
Among people lauding the TNIV New Testament in press releases were popular evangelical author Philip Yancey, Pastor Ted Haggard of New Life Church in Colorado Springs, and Adam Hamilton, senior pastor of the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas, one of the fastest growing congregations in the denomination.
Of course it's meant to grow congregations.
Our growing congregation and growing list on Sunday mornings --- combined with my growing family at home — began to overwhelm me.
Our buildings are too small for our growing congregation, and we didn't have sufficient parking — and being hemmed in by two busy arterial streets limited our options.
Efforts to build that mosque, appropriate for a growing congregation that had been active in the area for roughly two decades, were met not only with protests but also with a lawsuit.
You have a lot of new, or growing congregations that are repurposing existing buildings.
Morale in growing congregations is almost guaranteed to be high.
A growing congregation bustles with life; the staff is excited and exciting.
Even among Protestants there are many vital and growing congregations that worship in traditional ways.
It may seem contrarian for a megachurch to be so outspoken and controversial, but Without Walls's feistiness is part of what has made it one of the country's fastest - growing congregations.
One reason Randy and Paula White's Without Walls is one of the country's fastest - growing congregations.
Look at an example from a growing congregation which needed a new building.
«I responded that I'd take the» Vette any day over a Camry on bald tires, to which the growing congregation of Yoopers gave a head - bobbing «Amen.
About Blog Arab First United Methodist Church is a vibrant, loving, and growing congregation committed to the Wesleyan spirit and to the balance of the head, hands, and heart.