Sentences with phrase «young missionary»
A "young missionary" is a term used to describe a young person who travels to different places, often from their home country, to share their religious beliefs and help others learn about their faith. Full definition
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.»
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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.
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.
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.
She has paved the way for countless young missionaries and leads by example.
Out on the streets with four young missionaries assigned to canvass Manhattan's historic African - American core.
A fearsome dragon roams the Land of Dis, and only one man can stop it: an awkward young missionary named Wyngalf.
The religious literature handed out by the earnest young missionaries in Temple Square makes no mention of the fact that Joseph Smith — still the religion's focal personage — married at least thirty - three women, and probably as many as forty - eight.
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.
But whether he found someone to hear his message or not, it is easy to appreciate the young missionary's fear that everyone already knew the Mormon story.
I don't know a young missionary who doesn't chafe at the amount of time spent in language study, and daily curse the tower of Babel.
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.
As a young missionary trying to make initial sense out of the whole discussion of contextualization, I found his comment most intriguing.
The romance between a young missionary (Sam Claflin) being held prisoner on Blackbeard's ship and the mermaid (Astrid Berges - Frisbey) that's been captured for the aforementioned ritual is particularly pointless — almost as if screenwriters Terry Rossio and Ted Elliot felt compelled to fill the void left by Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom.
If your young missionary - to - be needs some extra help getting to his or her financial mission goals, that's OK.