Sentence examples for urban churches from inspiring English sources

Urban churches demanded full-time leadership, and Disciples gradually developed a professional ministry.

In Africa, urban churches record sermons with cellphones, then transmit them to villages to be replayed.

Many of its urban churches and schools, once filled with European immigrants, were impoverished.

While this group leans Republican, it includes black urban churches and is far from monolithic.

Non-Western missionaries have started thousands of new urban churches there since the nineteen-seventies.

Although lots of urban churches worry about those issues, the ones that can write a $1 billion check are rare.

"If you're interested in the life of the urban church, this is the place to be.

The church interior -- stretching almost 180 feet, much longer than the typical urban church -- was widely discussed.

When Savin Rock's attendance sagged in the 1950s, park owners brought in busloads of urban church groups, with more than 225 buses arriving on some days.

That proposal, and the congregation's recent vote to authorize it, has forced one of the nation's oldest churches to consider how to square the icons of its past — and this country's — with the challenges of operating a contemporary urban church.

As the older groups have dispersed, the old urban ethnic churches that catered to immigrant groups have lost their focus.