Sentence examples for existing congregation from inspiring English sources

In New York, like many transplanted Southerners, he built his own church in a storefront rather than joining an established denomination or existing congregation.

They will be welcomed in a service that evening, doubling the size of the existing congregation at St Anselm's, a 1970s church hall with a small chapel.

The new ordinariate will allow priests and their existing congregations to switch en masse, establishing new parishes with an Anglican flavor.

The three existing congregations of Trappists were united by Pope Leo XIII as the independent Reformed Cistercians of the Strict Observance; they follow the primitive custom of Cîteaux with an emphasis on silence and austerity but without the rigid regulations of the early Trappists.

The United Church of Christ still exists today and, in fact, is experiencing a renaissance in the birth of new congregations and the reception of existing congregations who want to affiliate -- the highest growth we have seen in several years.

The congregation was formed in 1869 by German Jews as an Orthodox breakaway from an existing Reform congregation.

To ameliorate the current conditions facing refugees at the berm, the existing placement and congregations of tents were analyzed then compared with the UNHCR Emergency Guidelines for refugee camps community standards.

Critics say attendance figures at new churches rarely represent genuine new growth, but are largely due to "sheep stealing" – poaching existing members of other congregations – and attracting students looking for a new place to worship after leaving their "home church".

During Wax's tenure, most of Temple Israel's members moved far from the existing synagogue, and in 1976 the congregation constructed its current building, closer to where most members lived.

One of the notable narratives within Harlem's architecture has been the re-appropriation of existing building types into spaces of religious congregation--from theaters including the famous Lafayette, Mount Morris and Regent to casinos to institutions such as the former James Fennimore Cooper Junior High School.

Existing research shows that both types of congregations empower their members to succeed in the modern economy and that Pentecostal churches often provide basic welfare services to their members (Trinitapoli & Weinreb 2012).