Sentence examples for congregation i from inspiring English sources

Its congregation, I believe, is welcoming and understanding.

In spite of these hurdles, King reassures his congregation: "I still have a dream.

Padre Cole, a British chaplain from Camp Bastion, is giving the sermon and dons a headset, telling the congregation: "I feel like Kylie Minogue wearing this.

As one of the few black faces in the congregation, I could never relate to this message, which fused the religious with the "racial" to engender fear.

Her acceptance of God's call to lead, to make herself visible and to make herself heard, converged with her commitment to liberation theology, as she exhorted herself and the congregation: "I am on the rise!

Recent visitors have included Nick Clegg, Chris Grayling and Cherie Blair; among the first members of the congregation I met the day I visited was a local Labour councillor.

I agree that religion is important in promoting altruism and community, and I have seen it in the congregations I've served or belonged to.

"Having been a parish priest before I was a bishop, into the congregations I served came men and women whose affections were ordered to members of the same sex," he says.

But I want things messy and stirred up in the congregations, I want you to take to the streets.

After 40 years as a Presbyterian pastor in five different congregations, I retired in 2008.

Along with fellow clergy and members of area congregations, I have worked with the mayor and city council of Fairfax to develop the city's first-ever affordable-housing policy.