Missionaries

Jim and Elisabeth Elliot have one daughter, Valerie. She was ten months old when Jim was killed.

The duties of a welfare officer in the church will vary from church to church. Their main duties are to just work with those in need of the church such as giving them food or money for utilities.

David Livingstone (1813-1873). British Congregationalist missionary serving with the London Missionary Society.

In the book of Acts it is said Paul went on his third missionary journey along with his companion who were his co workers they were young men called Silas and Barnabas.

• Monks traditionally isolate themselves from the outside world, often to avoid being "contaminated" by it.
• Missionaries traditionally go out on "missions" into the outside world to spread the Gospel.

Jim Elliot was a missionary in Ecuador to the Auca Indians. He died when he was trying to communicate with the Indians on January 8, 1956. He died with Nate Saint, Pete Fleming, and Roger Youderian. They didn't injure a single Auca. Later, Nate Saints wife and children went to live with the Aucas and befriended the very Aucas that had killed her husband.

People moved to the mountains to hunt animals for clothing that were in high demand at the time. People then moved to the west to buy the clothing.

In January 2012, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the "Mormon" church) reported having 55,410 proselyting missionaries and 9,251 humanitarian and welfare missionaries worldwide.

According to religious leaders, Paul the apostle traveled 14,000 miles. He is said to have made several missions throughout his life.

While this depends somewhat on how one defines the term missionary, the first Christian that appeared to take on the missionary role was Philip the Evangelist. He was first mentioned in Acts 6:5 in the Bible. However, his missionary travels are described in Acts 8:5-40. He served in the first decades of the church in the 1st century AD.

Father Junípero Serra was the first Jesuit missionary in the North American southwest. He established the mission at San Diego in 1769.

It lets a believer understand the world he/she lives in and most importantly the joy of eternal life that God promised his followers. a) Christians continued to use Latin and Greek and, thus, assured the preservation of these languages while enriching them with new vocabulary and conceptual frameworks.b) Christian patronage put an end to the building bust of the third-century world and created a new and dynamic architecture. c) Christian art spread widely and found creative ways to reinterpret classical motifs and styles while adding new ones. d)Christian poets carried on the classical tradition. By assigning power to celibate men, Christianity created a new kind of society that also was a "democracy of sin." e) Christian martyrs and saints created a new kind of hero-figure. f) A new morality assured women a more secure place in society. g) Slowly but surely, Christian ethics pervaded secular law.

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they brought Hinduism I think, Buddhism I know and daoiam I also know.

Depends on the preacher. Some preachers might preach for attention or popularity, which is never right. The purpose of preachers (who arent fake) is to be used by and let God speak through them, sometimes for a whole congregation to hear something that God has wanted them to hear, or maybe just a single person.

Initially it was Paul and Barnabas and Silas, but Barnabas wanted to bring John Mark, but Paul said no because John Mark had left them earlier. So Barnabas left with John Mark and Paul and Silas continued on. Timothy joins them later and Luke is also there.

They really didn't in the long run. They robbed Native Americans of their real Indian names, forcing them to take Christian names, and also robbed them of their innate spirituality and religious heritages.

Paul's First Missionary Journey In Acts 13:2,3, Paul and Barnabas, gathered with other disciples at Antioch of Syria, were called by God to their first missionary journey: "Separate me Barnabas and Saul (Paul) for the work whereunto I have called them." The disciples fasted and prayed before sending them forth on their journey, whereby they took a ship to Cyprus. According to Professor E.E. Ellis, PhD of Bethel Seminary, the first journey started in AD 46, ending with their return to report to the church at Syrian Antioch in AD 49, a duration of about three years. The ministry took place solely on Cyprus and what is modern Asia Minor in the southern provinces of Pamphylia, Pisidia and Lycaonia. Paul was stoned and left for dead at Lystra of Lycaonia, but the disciples prayed and he rose up, continuing his ministry in the region before returning to the home church. In terms of distance the total journey, as a round trip, would have been between 900 to 1000 miles. While the Acts account is widely accepted, some believe that an earlier journey was Paul's first missionary journey. The account is found in Galatians.

Early works: The Jesuits were founded just before the Counter-Reformation (or at least before the date those historians with a classical view of the counter reformation hold to be the beginning of the Counter-Reformation), a movement whose purpose was to reform the Catholic Church from within and to counter the Protestant Reformers, whose teachings were spreading throughout Catholic Europe. As part of their service to the Roman Church, the Jesuits encouraged people to continue their obedience to scripture as interpreted by Catholic doctrine. Ignatius is known to have written: "...: I will believe that the white that I see is black if the hierarchical Church so defines it." Ignatius and the early Jesuits did recognize, though, that the hierarchical Church was in dire need of reform, and some of their greatest struggles were against corruption, venality, and spiritual lassitude within the Roman Catholic Church. Ignatius's insistence on an extremely high level of academic preparation for ministry, for instance, was a deliberate response to the relatively poor education of much of the clergy of his time, and the Jesuit vow against "ambitioning prelacies" was a deliberate effort to prevent greed for money or power invading Jesuit circles. As a result, in spite of their loyalty, Ignatius and his successors often tangled with the pope and the Roman Curia. Over the 450 years since its founding, the Society has both been called the papal "elite troops" and been forced into suppression. St. Ignatius and the Jesuits who followed him believed that the reform of the Church had to begin with the conversion of an individual's heart. One of the main tools the Jesuits have used to bring about this conversion has been the Ignatian retreat, called the Spiritual Exercises. During a four-week period of silence, individuals undergo a series of directed meditations on the life of Christ. During this period, they meet regularly with a spiritual director, who helps them understand whatever call or message God has offered in their meditations. The retreat follows a Purgative-Illuminative-Unitive pattern in the tradition of the mysticism of John Cassian and the Desert Fathers. Ignatius' innovation was to make this style of contemplative mysticism available to all people in active life, and to use it as a means of rebuilding the spiritual life of the Church. The Exercises became both the basis for the training of Jesuits themselves and one of the essential ministries of the order: giving the exercises to others in what became known as retreats. The Jesuits' contributions to the late Renaissance were significant in their roles both as a missionary order and as the first religious order to operate colleges and universities as a principal and distinct ministry. By the time of Ignatius' death in 1556, the Jesuits were already operating a network of 74 colleges on three continents. A precursor to liberal education, the Jesuit plan of studies incorporated the Classical teachings of Renaissance humanism into the Scholastic structure of Catholic thought. In addition to teaching faith, the Ratio Studiorum emphasized the study of Latin, Greek, classical literature, poetry, and philosophy as well as non-European languages, sciences and the arts. Furthermore, Jesuit schools encouraged the study of vernacular literature and rhetoric, and thereby became important centers for the training of lawyers and public officials. The Jesuit schools played an important part in winning back to Catholicism a number of European countries which had for a time been predominantly Protestant, notably Poland and Lithuania. Today, Jesuit colleges and universities are located in over one hundred nations around the world. Under the notion that God can be encountered through created things and especially art, they encouraged the use of ceremony and decoration in Catholic ritual and devotion. Perhaps as a result of this appreciation for art, coupled with their spiritual practice of "finding God in all things", many early Jesuits distinguished themselves in the visual and performing arts as well as in music. The Jesuits were able to obtain significant influence in the Early Modern Period because Jesuit priests often acted as confessors to the Kings of the time. They were an important force in the Counter-Reformation and in the Catholic missions, in part because their relatively loose structure (without the requirements of living in community, saying the divine office together, etc.) allowed them to be flexible to meet the needs of the people at the time.

Well, I don't believe that strongly in the ties of one denomination over another, so it might not be too accurate. But, for me, I would say that if you say you are baptist and start going to a baptist church you might as well be baptist. I prefer to stay categorized as non-denominational myself.

Paul traveled to make new converts and to check up on earlier converts and members of the Church. He wanted to assure that they remained true to the Gospel. Sometimes he traveled to settle disputes. For example, he traveled to Jerusalem to meet with the other apostles to discuss some of the rules they were trying to enforce on the gentiles.

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Excommunication in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (commonly called the "Mormon" church) is quite rare, although it was more common in the earliest days of the Church. The process and rules regarding excommunication are rather specific. The process works like this:

When a Church member commits a serious sin, it is their responsibility to visit with their local congregation leader (a Bishop) to receive counsel and support in repenting of the wrong. The Bishop will discuss the act of repentance with the individual and suggest a course of action. The vast majority of issues discussed with a Bishop require no formal disciplinary action. For more serious sins, the Bishop may choose to quietly place the individual on probation, meaning that they should not partake of the Sacrament (communion) or attend special Temple worship services (different than regular Sunday services) for a period of time until the issue is resolved. For the most serious sins, a "Church Court" is convened, comprised of local Church leaders. The Church Court will meet together and with the individual to decide whether no action, disfellowshipment, or excommunication should occur. Disfellowshipment is a step slightly higher than probation and lasts longer. It means that the individual, while still a member of the Church, may not hold a position in the Church, lead congregations or classes in prayer, or give sermons during worship services. If the individual is male, their rights to perform the ordinances of the Priesthood are put on hold.

Excommunication is the most serious form of Church discipline and must be decided by a Church Court. Excommunication is only possible in cases of murder, adultery, plural marriage (polygamy), incest, having apostatized and become openly antagonistic against the Church, abortion, having a transsexual operation, attempted murder, rape, forcible sexual abuse, intentionally inflicting serious physical injuries on others, fornication, homosexual relationships, child abuse (sexual or physical), spouse abuse, deliberate abandonment of family responsibilities, robbery, burglary, embezzlement, theft, sale of illegal drugs, fraud, or perjury. Those who hold leadership positions in the Church are held to a higher standard than recent converts or younger members. Teens and young adults are very rarely excommunicated for these behaviors, they are usually put on probation.

Excommunication, just like disfellowshipment and probation, is meant to be temporary. While excommunicated members are no longer members of the Church, they are encouraged to continue attending worship services and meet with the Bishop regularly to track their progress. Excommunicated members may be re-baptized and regain full fellowship in the Church if they choose to do so. The process would be the same as if they were a convert to the Church.

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