Sentence examples for their local churches from inspiring English sources

But Italians actually living there worried about their local churches and hometown painters, their Zilles.

But until recently, parish shopping was unheard of among Catholics, who, for generations, went lockstep to their local churches.

Although Moore strains to avoid partisan appeals, his political views are generally conservative, which is to say, generally in harmony with those of the mainly white and thoroughly evangelical worshippers whom he serves and who, through donations to their local churches, pay his salary.

Mr. Canales, who is the pastor of a 1,500-member Assembly of God church, said that Mr. Avila was widely admired and welcomed by evangelical pastors because he not only excited Hispanics about Christianity, he also encouraged them to attend their local churches.

This situation would lead to many black secessions from the AFM resulting in the formation of African Initiated Churches, but the church would continue to have a large black constituency, who continued to exercise considerable autonomy in their local churches.

They also, oddly enough, share an abiding sense of alienation from the Body of Christ, at least as that Body is expressed in the media and quite often in their local churches.

McQuire and his wife, Ann, 63, were described as being heavily involved in their local church community.

At one school she has been running a singing club for 22 children since October in preparation for a concert at their local church.

Many more expressed faith in their local priest, and 77 percent said they were just as involved in their local church's activities as they had been before the latest reports of abuse.

But in some rural communities, says Saunders, villagers recognise the importance of their local church in giving a heart to their community – perhaps, as their only remaining shared facility.

(Wild claims to be an atheist largely for musical reasons, having at age ten asked his mother how there could be a God when the organist at their local church in Pittsburgh was so lousy).