Sentence examples for a congregation by from inspiring English sources

He built a congregation by knocking on doors in a prefabricated Communist housing block in the 1970s.

Lo and behold they stumble across a congregation by the river bank about to start baptismal services.

He comes by his persistence and his rectitude honestly, Melissa wrote: He built a congregation by knocking on doors in a pre-fabricated Communist housing bloc in the 1970s.

He told reporters after his election that he planned to begin reaching out to Germans in the coming weeks to hear their concerns, a skill honed through years building a congregation by knocking on the doors of a Communist-built housing block in Rostock, Germany.

In 1880, the Methodist Church ordained women preachers (i.e., traveling preachers but not a pastor of a congregation); by 1920 the Methodist Church ordained women deacons; in 1956 the United Methodist Church was the first mainline denomination to ordain women with full rights as pastors/elders.

I have no doubt that on a congregation-by-congregation, pastor-by-pastor basis, Calvin College grads make better ministers than the typical Harvardian.

The service was marked by the grief and anger felt by a congregation devastated by the attack, which took place outside the church's door about 30 minutes into the new year as churchgoers were leaving.

A mission church owned by the Chatsworth Estate rather than the Church of England it was reduced to a congregation of two by the early 70s.

He drove with his family half an hour south of Nashville to Franklin, where he had agreed to appear at Redemption City Church, a congregation started, by his friend Jed Coppenger, as a church plant that is, a church "planted" by a local pastor, with assistance from the national denomination.

Built by a congregation of abolitionists and financed in part by Richard Hunt, the chapel had been the scene of many reform lectures, and was considered the only large building in the area that would open its doors to a women's rights convention.

A tour of the church suggested a distinctly faded glory, the feeling of a congregation winnowed by age and attrition.