Sentence examples for on a congregation from inspiring English sources

Mandating that a church be preserved can not only impose a heavy financial burden on a congregation, it also raises the specter of state interference with religious freedom.

Coptic-Muslim religious tension reignited when in January a man opened fire on a congregation exiting an Eastern Orthodox church's Coptic Christmas mass in Najʿ Hammadi, Upper Egypt, killing six Copts and a Muslim policeman.

I knew how to work on a congregation until the last dime was surrendered — it was not very hard to do — and I knew where the money for "the Lord's work" went.

Missions are dependent on a congregation which is administered by a minister.

Most of us have heard of many pastors that have an unhealthy influence on a congregation after their time as pastor is done.

The presence of a core group of engaged, passionate young adults can have a profound effect on a congregation that is primarily populated by people in their 60s or above and rarely sees anyone much younger on Sundays.

Veteran civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton preached on Sunday to a congregation of some 2,500 worshippers at the St . Louischurch where Michael Brown's funeral was held in August.

They've made it their jobs to stop the issues in their tracks, expound on them to a congregation, and ask their audiences, basically juries of their peers, for a final verdict.

I have no doubt that on a congregation-by-congregation, pastor-by-pastor basis, Calvin College grads make better ministers than the typical Harvardian.

For David, 42, as a pastor to others, those words were the rare time anyone asked about the demands on him — a congregation of 3,000 at St . PaulCommunity Baptist Church in the East New York section of Brooklyn, a charter school in its first year, the annual commemoration of the Middle Passage called the Maafa.

On Monday, a congregation at Glasgow Cathedral including Prince Charles, David Cameron, political and military leaders and dignitaries from around the Commonwealth heard the schoolgirl, now 16, describe the obligation she feels, not only to that unnamed soldier but also to the family unable to mourn him.