Sentence examples for their converts from inspiring English sources

Furthermore, most of their converts were coming from among the Gentiles.

But the prophet begat apostles, and their converts begat converts — energetic, courageous types who ventured as far as Hawaii, England, Brazil and Tonga to evangelize.

By inculcating individualism and encouraging the stratification that was to lead so many of their converts onto the colonial labour markets, the missionaries attacked much that was central to African society and developed an ideology to accompany colonial subordination.

Occasionally they had plenty, but often they were hungry, ill-clad, and cold (Philippians 4 11 12; 2 Corinthians 11 27), and at times they had to rely on the charity of their converts.

Their converts were no more than local ruffians who exploited foreign protection to ride roughshod over their countrymen.In East Zhangwu Village, close to the railway line between Beijing and the port city of Tianjin, the village doctor is a Boxer fan.

It also refuses to recognise the Vatican, which has diplomatic ties with Taiwan.China says the European missionaries and their converts were not saints who had done God's work, but were "evil-doing sinners" who raped and plundered China on behalf of western imperialists.

Mormons do their converting door to door via clean-cut teenage and twenty-something "elders".

In many cases, compromises have been made and congregations have continued to worship in their converted homes.

The crew was famous for trucking their converted bio-diesel party wagon across the country and throwing parties wherever they could hunker down and collect kitchen trap grease.

We can ask them to come home and clear out their old rooms; we can take over their closets, convert their rooms.

Children born prior to the end of conversion do not become Jews if their parent converts.