Sentence examples for local preacher from inspiring English sources

Jack, meanwhile, courts Bertha (Mia Wasikowska), the daughter of a local preacher.

The local preacher is consumed by the dream of building a huge church.The film is also a study of obsession.

Sitting at his kitchen window, a local preacher, Lot Mzawuziwa Matomele, said that sheep and cattle rustling had become a major problem.

Licensed as a local preacher at Lyndon, Vt., in 1818, he was received into the New England Conference of the Methodist church in June of that year.

It is therefore decreed, by the menfolk and the local preacher (John Lithgow), that the women should be transported back east, across the Missouri River to Hebron, Iowa.

But in nearby Khaldiya, members of the "Daham network", named after a local preacher, denounce Fallujah's scholars' board as atheistic collaborators.

Salafi politicians, on the other hand, are often local preachers close to their village constituents.

Local preachers also weighed in on the issue, and many parents wrote to the police.

"The A.N.C. today is all about power, not the people," said a union organizer, Teboho Masiza, as he listened to local preachers offer prayers for the dead.

All kinds of online forums allow open discussion of religious questions.For the first time, lay people can easily separate religious commands from tradition by looking at holy texts and scholarship rather than relying on their local preachers.

In this role, he spoke at services after local preachers and assisted travelling preachers during their circuit rides.