Sentence examples for mission board from inspiring English sources

Campers on Mission operates under the North American Mission Board, which helps mobilize 145,000 Southern Baptists who want to use their own money for disaster relief, church construction or for missions, said Mike Ebert, a spokesman for the board.

There he married his fiancée, Narcissa Prentiss, who was also registered with the mission board.

The other finalist, the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, backed out of the running.

Among the first missionaries of the newly organized Congregational mission board were Adoniram Judson and Luther Rice, who had been sent to India.

Major national conservative Christian groups like Focus on the Family lauded his work, and the Southern Baptist Convention named him chairman of its North American Mission Board.

The Gallery Church is among 45 Southern Baptist "church plants," or new congregations, established in the New York City area in the last decade, according to Mike Ebert, a spokesman for the Southern Baptist Convention's North American Mission Board.

During the battles between fundamentalists and liberal-minded modernists in the early 20th century, however, conservative mission boards cracked down on the freedom of female missionaries.

It was difficult to get his seventh- and eighth-grade students at the St. Francis Mission boarding school to line up in a row or follow a rigid schedule.

Agnes and I had gone to the Holy Rosary Mission Boarding School to get our education and we shared memories, good and bad, of those days.

Members of the nation's largest Protestant denomination backed the recommendation for intentionally including minorities as nominees for positions, speakers at the annual meeting, and staff recruited for its seminaries and mission boards.

My old friend and classmate, Patrick Red Elk, from the Catholic Indian mission boarding school we attended, died a couple of weeks ago and as I read his obituary in the local daily I swear that I would not have known who he was if I had not run into him in December.