He said the expanded ministry over transportation would oversee civil aviation and urban road transportation, but would not include the current Ministry of Railways, which lobbied strenuously to remain autonomous.
Dr. Coates has initiated and revitalized ministries, expanded the church's ministry campus and land holdings, and incorporated the Mt. Ennon Development Corporation MEDCC).
"The investigation to combat terrorism and its financial flows has been greatly expanded," the ministry said.
He greatly expanded the ministry's remit, dealing with rural matters but also developing a plan for permanent Jewish settlements in the territories occupied by Israel in 1967.
Churches in his network, an umbrella for 100 Baptist congregations, expanded their ethnic ministries — Spanish, Cambodian — as intimate alternatives to mega-churches that he calls "cool churches for white people".
The younger Mr. Schuller envisioned using new technologies to expand the ministry's capacities and reach a younger audience.
Monsignor Villamide said Bishop Egan's success attracting men to the priesthood has been particularly helpful in expanding Catholic ministry to Hispanics and other immigrants in the cities in the diocese.
At this time the East Timorese Government was working to expand the ministry's capacity with assistance from UNMIT, but continuing shortages of qualified staff limited the extent to which the ministry could provide civilian oversight to the security sector.
He eagerly relates his plans to expand the Ministry into a worldwide franchise, beginning with one show in London to coincide with the Frieze Art Fair, followed by another in Moscow.
In Raleigh, N.C., the First Assembly of God has a number of home-based small groups in the city of Raleigh, but also in Cary, Clayton, Durham and Youngsville, expanding the ministry of the church through several counties.
