Sentence examples for mission workers from inspiring English sources

Besides offering support to Maryknoll mission workers around the world who are caring for people with AIDS and H.I.V., the task force also connects individuals and church groups in the United States with mission workers abroad.

The movement was initiated in the 1880s when South African mission workers began forming independent all-African churches, such as the Tembu tribal church (1884) and the Church of Africa (1889).

Kathy and John Tucker, the husband-and-wife mission workers who head the program and who were at the mission on a rare visit, brought stories of the quilters closer to home at a presentation last week.

Today it has hundreds of mission workers -- priests, brothers, sisters and lay members from the Church -- spread through nearly 40 countries in five continents, its organization supported by contributions from church congregations around the world.

When leaders explicitly describe how the new space will help achieve the organization's mission, workers are more enthusiastic about the space, have a better sense of how they should be using it, and feel more place identity.

The Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, as Maryknoll is formally known, has been sending mission workers overseas since 1911, when two priests traveled to China to work with the poor there and then returned to Maryknoll to train others to service.

He could have been a great father, he could have been a great mission worker.

As Gus's criminal activities begin to fall under the suspicion of a candidate for sheriff (David Landau, Louu falls for Captain Cummings (Cary Grant), a mission worker who frequents the bar.

And Ms. Baldwin, nominated for a Helen Hayes Award in Washington last year for her Nellie Forbush in Arena Stage's "South Pacific," finds surprising depth in Sarah Brown, the mission worker around whom the story revolves.

Clare Foster's Sarah also acquits herself attractively, although her voice is not always comfortable to listen to in its highest register, as though to illustrate that, for a young mission worker, hitting the high notes is like occupying the moral high ground, an effortful matter of principle.

EMILY LOESSER, the singer and actress, was born -- literally -- to the role of Sarah Brown, the save-a-soul mission worker in "Guys and Dolls". She is a daughter of Frank Loesser, the musical's composer and lyricist, and sings the part in a new recording of the show.