Sentence examples for congregation down from inspiring English sources

The window remained unrepaired which left the sanctuary open to the elements for a month before the congregation, down to approximately 100 members, asked for assistance.

Take your youth group, or members of your congregation down there after church just to see, meet, and listen.

"He talked to his congregation, not down to the congregation".

In Chur, in Switzerland, the congregation lay down in protest in front of the cathedral during the consecration of the deeply conservative Bishop Wolfgang Haas, who had been foisted on them by Rome.

I believe that every time a congregation sits down with someone from whom they would otherwise be divided, justice is made.

Congregations shut down in at least two other Alabama cities in recent years, Mr. Rockoff said.

And yet, it seems fitting to sit in a communal space and remember all the other congregations down the centuries who have worshipped a mother, who, in this interpretation, is herself in need of the succour of a female deity: the virgin goddess, Artemis.

If a sermon seemed too bland or apolitical, members of the congregation might shout down the preacher.

The sailors ignored the shocked stares and urgent whispers of the congregation, and sat down in our midst.

On December 1, 1938, the congregation made a down payment of $500 cash and few days later, the Building Fund Campaign opened for the new church with a committee of one-hundred volunteers.

And with the congregations so slimmed down, tithes and church offerings are minimal, ministers said.