Sentence examples for congregation through from inspiring English sources

Their bar or bat mitzvahs included leading the congregation through the entire service, not just chanting ritual prayers.

He nursed his congregation through the famine that followed the eruption when three-quarters of Iceland's sheep died after ingesting the fluorine that poured out of the volcano.

Walking through the camp of green and white tarpaulin tents, Mr. Senessie said he had led his congregation through the forest for six days to arrive here.

"We started here on January 25, and that was an exciting day," he said of the Sunday when a marching band led the old congregation through the streets of Morrisania north to their new home.

Despite the shortage of volunteers and funds, the church has managed to maintain its charitable focus, Mr. Roché said, noting that he himself discovered the congregation through its soup kitchen six years ago, when he was homeless.

Father Devine, weary from weeks of airport evacuations, grief counseling for airline employees and funerals and memorial services for Port Authority colleagues, prayed on, leading his nerve-racked congregation through a short and somber service.

Within the Presbyterian Church those posts go to ministers specially trained to guide congregations through times of conflict and transition.

"We actually encourage it as a way to get people into the churches," said LeeAnne Beres, the executive director of Earth Ministry, a Seattle group founded in 1992 that has guided many area congregations through environmental upgrades over the past decade but has recently emphasized more direct political action for pastors and parishioners.

"Our religious leadership needs to be able to guide their parishioners and congregations through the questions that are posed by life in the United States today, which is increasingly pluralistic".

Man was "a brittle crazy glass":Yet in thy temple thou dost him afford This glorious and transcendent place To be a window, through thy grace.As the congregation pressed through afterwards into the south quire aisle they found the windows still wreathed in incense, like the cloud of God that had enveloped Jesus on the mountain.

And yet beside the diggers & builders of new things is this mangy congregation, pushing through the scrub without a trail or blueprint or direction.