Sentences with phrase «working as a missionary»

Andrew Brunson was arrested in 2016 while he was working as a missionary there and accused of partaking in terrorist organisations.

It is understood that Squire and fellow Christian charity workers David and Shirley Donovan and Alanna Carson were working as missionaries when they were abducted from their accommodation in Delta State in the south of the country in the early hours of 13th October.

Bach has worked as a missionary among all of us.»

The Rev. T. H. Sintim (1896 - 1982) worked as a missionary teacher and pastor for the Presbyterian Church of Ghana for some 60 - odd years.

We stayed with her family, as she was originally from that part of Ireland but had been living in the US for a couple of years after marrying an American whom she met while working as a missionary in Bangladesh.

Anderson left the states to work as a missionary in Britain, and McKinney eventually followed him there.

They had been members many years ago and are now working as missionaries in another country.

Not exact matches

He refused to believe that Vatican II, the ecumenical council he had experienced as a powerful work of the Holy Spirit, could only lead to permanent incoherence and division in Catholicism; and by providing an authoritative interpretation of the Council, John Paul II's pontificate energized the living parts of the Church and made Vatican II the launch platform for the new evangelization and for the Church's rediscovery of itself as a missionary enterprise.

What I have to wonder is, if we, as a Church, trust God to work and bring people to Him, or if we feel like we have to «help» by providing all these material possessions (which in the end are meaningless, the money spent on them might be better spent on improving the community, providing food for hungry, support for ministers and overseas missionaries).

The general working theory for Christian missionaries was first formalized in St. Augustine's doctrine of «cognite intrare», or «compel them to enter», but was perhaps best summed up by J. C. Warner some 1500 years later: ``... the sword must first — not exterminate them, but — break them up as tribes, and destroy their political existence; after which, when thus set free from the shackles by which they are bound, civilisation and Christianity will no doubt make rapid progress among them.»

Many feel a special calling to bring the Word back to the Middle East; others become unintentional missionaries as their work carries them to the West and beyond.

I have evaluated that, as a native African missionary, my team and I can do more effective work in evangelism with $ 10,000 than a visiting missionary can do with $ 100,000.

I have evaluated that, as a native missionary my team and I can do an effective work in evangelism with 10.000 US$ $ $ than a visiting missionary can't do with 100.000 US$ $ $ $.

I am available to advise any missionaries interested in doing a mission work in Africa on how to be cost effective, yet with great results / fruits for the Lord's kingdom as per mission field they are going / or are interested in.

Self - schooled in the history of European nationalism — especially as championed by Giuseppe Mazzini in Italy — Savarkar sought to give expression to a broad cultural ideology that could challenge the British Raj, counter Western influence more generally, and provide intellectual defenses against Muslim beliefs and the allegedly culture - destroying work of Christian missionaries.

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.

But then I started reading some of the comments and had to go back and read this story closer to find out why all the rage towards religion as this story does not bring it up other than mentioning missionary work.

This is not bad, but a missionary will often get a job in the community so he or she can live and work among the people, and be seen as one of them.

The church appears as the executor of missionary work, the centre from which all else radiates.

The Johannine commission uses the Greek cognate for «mission», and roots mission in the work of the great missionary God rather than in a great missionary commission: «As the Father has sent me, so send I you,» said Jesus.

Carpenter emphasizes fundamentalists» commitment to foreign missions, noting that as mainline denominations retrenched or withdrew from mission work, the number of fundamentalist missionaries multiplied.

It was the work of Jewish Christian missionaries such as Addai in Edessa, Aggai and Mari in Persia and Thomas in India.

As Christianity expanded in its early years, Antioch was a great centre for missionary work in the Hellenistic world.

The missionaries for the most part seem to have worked in groups and to have formed around them a nucleus of new believers, amongst whom some would be appointed, probably with the consent of the whole body of believers, as elders (Acts 14:23, Ja.

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.

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.

FOCUS sends recent college graduates back to campuses as missionaries and has had such success in the U.S. that FOCUS missionaries are now working in Europe.

As a missionary hardly a day went by when I didn't get the opportunity to chat to someone about the work Jesus did on the cross.

go look in india what they are doing as missionary work..

Some scientists have gone overseas as medical, agricultural, or scientific missionaries and teachers; are there not in America most of the same opportunities for service to mankind and for witness by word and work to one's religious faith?

Proove what you have said... Read about «eternal marraige», «free agency», «missionary work», and «spreading the gospel»... as well as any other question / statement you might have... and get it from the horses mouth instead of from some second hand account before you post comments about something you just don't understand... make sure you post the whole article you found by way of link and not just paraphase to make it say what you want it to say.

When the work of conversion was completed, in theory the missions were «secularized» — that is, the missionaries, most of whom were «regulars» (members of orders), were required to give place to the «secular» clergy, and normal parish administration, such as existed in districts longer under European rule, was introduced.

They work as pastors, preachers and priests, teachers and scholars, evangelists and missionaries, writers and editors, administrators of denominational, educational, social service and reform agencies, as chaplains in prisons, hospitals and military establishments.

This has happened through the migrations of peoples from Europe as well as through the work of missionaries.

Mingana speaks of a large number of converts beyond the Oxus river as a result of missionary work undertaken by Elliya, the metropolitan of Men» in the seventh century.

Could you tell me why the majority or the extremists did not try to enforce their Beliefs and Church upon all as did in the previous lands... Although can be seen that they might be working as «Missionaries» towards converting more at overseas countries?

the emphasis on «new forms» of missionary action has incurred the criticism that this study is not living up to its title insofar as it does not show great interest in the work of existing congregations where, it is said, the church after all carries on its major work....

Working in groups in western Europe, North America, and to a lesser extent elsewhere, the study team produced and encouraged many papers and books on the problem of the local church.7 Naming as its focus the Missionary Structure of the Congregation, the study proposed that radically different forms of Christian assembly and witness be fostered within the secular context.

Note distinction between Christian concept of grace, and all the rest requiring that we earn some or all of our salvation, as in temple duties and missionary work.

Kalvin Cressel is a pastor of Mt. Sinai Missionary Baptist Church in California who also worked as a special agent, taking on Compton's gangs.

Church growth people attempt to apply to the American scene the scientific principles of church growth as developed by Donald McGavran, based on his 30 years of missionary work in India.

In that dissertation, I identified the explicitly stated goals of the administrators and missionaries, as well as goals implied in stories they told to illustrate the «success» of the work.

H. Andrews, a CMS missionary who worked among them, described the change as follows:

Back then, when someone explicitly identifies him or herself as a «Christian», the image is someone who does missionary work, living among peasant villages, not to prosyletyze but to provide education, basic health care, and crisis relief.

Ware, Mass., Oct. 23, 1845 (Boston: Crocker and Brewster, 1845) Reprinted as The Office and Work of the Missionary to the Heathen (Boston: The Board, n.d.).

I would say these days, in general, missionaries, at least the ones we work with, really try to incorporate ethnomusicology and traditional practices as much as possible from the beginning.

interesting topic.A lot of damage was done in south africa by white missionaries.they didn't come to bring messiah they came to bring western culture into africa.there are so many beautiful things about indigineous cultures that have been robbed and destroyed.so as a follower of messiah i tend to stay as far away from «missionary» work and i just try to listen to people's stories.

She was born in 1926 in Brussels, where the Howard family worked for five years as missionaries under the Belgian Gospel Mission.

In the choice of this central theme, the missionary movement came into the same stream of thought as two other branches of the ecumenical movement, namely, the Faith and Order, and Life and Work movements.

This is seen in such popular treatments as Julian Price Love's The Missionary Message of the Bible, and more scholarly works as Ferdinand Hahn's Mission in the New Testament, and Johannes Blauw's The Missionary Nature of the Church.