Sentence examples for local congregation from inspiring English sources

As white supremacist rallies overtook Charlottesville, Va .on a Saturday last month, congregants of the local Congregation Beth Israel made their way to Shabbat services in an atmosphere of tension.

And when later Burchfield's mother felt shut out from a local congregation, he rejected religion completely.

A similar permission can exist for solar installations, provided a local congregation will fund it.

He was given the limited role of pastor of the local congregation, and removed from preaching on "Hour of Power".

The Welsh Congregational Church at Radnor Walk in Chelsea today serves a dispersed instead of a local congregation.

The purpose-built £11m Gurdwara opened in 2009 to serve a local congregation of around 4,000 Sikhs.

In 2000, he was named general secretary of the National Council of Churches, which consists of more than 100,000 local congregations and some 45 million congregants.

The church government is similar to that of the Methodists, but local congregations have more autonomy.

Nor could local congregations impose civil penalties on anyone who violated secular law.

Local congregations are grouped for administrative purposes into two forms of area organizations, districts and stakes.

John C. Danforth has a good ear for the music many Christians hear every Sunday in local congregations.