| They sing a cappella, circling the pews as congregants trickle in and join the singing. |
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| We needed some tender loving care, and usually the congregants don't think of themselves as being obligated to fulfill that role. |
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| Full-time clergy may be paid either out of public taxation or the donations of the congregants. |
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| In addition, we collected data on the friendship networks of the congregants. |
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| His relationship with his congregants necessarily has become more remote, formal, and abstract. |
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| And no rabbi feels compelled to tell his congregants about the importance of coming to hear the shofar on Rosh Hashana. |
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| The celebrant faced the tabernacle, his back to the uncomprehending congregants who busied themselves with their prayer books or rosaries. |
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| Within an exterior of stone and glass is a softly curving interior of wood veneer panels that virtually embrace the congregants. |
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| This concern for social justice, in turn, creates a norm within congregations that is supported and nourished by the congregants. |
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| In the face of voluntary church membership, ministers engineered revivals to recruit congregants. |
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| Dieste wrote of his desire to unite the congregants with the officiants in a single space, which the nave of this church provides. |
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| We expect that all congregants, whether minority or majority, will talk of costs and benefits. |
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| He failed, however, to project the charisma and religiosity which many congregants sought. |
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| In this fourth stage, it is clear that preachers dismiss rhetoric to their own peril and to the peril of the religiosity of their congregants. |
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| In 1968, congregants contributed about 3 percent of their income to the church. |
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| The leader will invite all congregants who feel the Torah passage is speaking to this issue in their lives to join in that aliyah. |
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| As there are hardly any congregants in the bleak church, and these include only some of the central characters, this seems a strange device. |
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| Through a meticulous reading of God's words and a reverential hearing by the congregants, the very sense of God's presence is deepened. |
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| For the Water Service congregants bring water from their travels or places that have been significant to them. |
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| He taps the heads of congregants with a bare dagger, and spins them into a dizzy trance. |
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| In sum: religious schools may legitimately view their primary role as reproducing congregants rather than reflective citizens. |
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| Allen and Ouderkirk became friends and wrote a special liturgy for Hispanic congregants. |
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| Mrs. Khaimov said she hoped the restored house of worship would attract more congregants. |
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| The pastor and his congregants sat around the TV and watched as fists began to fly and blood began to splatter. |
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| Ushers passed around little pieces of paper on which congregants could inscribe messages of support to victims of sexual abuse. |
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| It is not something the devotee waves like a flag in self-aggrandizement to enlist awe from others or to gain congregants. |
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| The midtown lunchers assemble en mass in Bryant Park like congregants bowing to the altar of the public library. |
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| Indeed, when I asked why the congregants came to the church, many of them attributed it to the good feelings they gained in converting to the new religion. |
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| Southern slaves generally attended their masters' white churches, where they often outnumbered the white congregants. |
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| In 1612, Thomas Helwys established a Baptist congregation in London, consisting of congregants from Smyth's church. |
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| But for its congregants, it has been increasingly difficult to countenance the mannequins in racy underwear, creeping ever so often unto the property of their tiny, sun-bleached house of worship. |
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| What you can do: Help your congregants understand the health benefits of better sanitation and use your moral authority to encourage behavioural change. |
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| Such a fine basin would probably have been placed in a prominent public mosque to serve the needs of congregants and to proclaim the glory of the ruler. |
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| When white-dominated church leadership demanded that black congregants return to the segregated sections, Allen responded by marching black parishioners straight out of the church. |
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| In these situations support is provided by citizens as well as congregants, by non-believers as well as believers and it is important that the conditions for support not be inconsistent with basic liberal ideals. |
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| It fails to give respect to a religion if it does not assure a safe climate in which congregants can practice and express their beliefs and, involve their children in them. |
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| The restoration work on the church will be ongoing and will involve the hands-on participation of congregants in the restoration of more accessible areas such as lower wood windows. |
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| For example, soon after moving to Philadelphia to minister black congregants at St. George's Methodist Church, Allen staged a daring protest against segregation within the house of the Lord. |
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| Few ever got in to the prayer ground, which cannot hold that many congregants. |
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| And in the far larger developing world – where the power imbalance between clergy and congregants is far greater and where bishops enjoy far more status and deference – we believe the rate is higher still. |
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| Some mosques will also hold suhoor meals before dawn to congregants attending the first required prayer of the day, fajr. |
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| As with iftar dinners, congregants usually provide the food for suhoor, although able mosques may provide food instead. |
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| Some Huguenot preachers and congregants were attacked as they attempted to meet for worship. |
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| Some 200 congregants attempted to shield the cross from being brought down, the AP reported. |
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| David Adkisson, age 58, entered the church during the Sunday morning service and shot congregants before being wrestled to the ground. |
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| He said he and lead pastor Bobby Murrieta are working with congregants to recruit a young pastor to run the Auburn church, which formally opens its doors tonight. |
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| Modern mosques have a variety of amenities available to their congregants. |
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| Congregants pray in rows parallel to the qiblah wall and thus arrange themselves so they face Mecca. |
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| Congregants and visitors to mosques are supposed to be clean themselves. |
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