congregation
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Marshall worked for 25 years as an obstetrician, delivering some 5,000 babies, while his rival Hamilton founded a church which became the centre of the largest United Methodist congregation in America.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
His congregation currently runs homes in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, housing around 1,300 people in total.
From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026
Ground-floor sanctuary stays with the congregation, as well as sole ownership of community spaces.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
She eventually rises from the dead and dances her way through the congregation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
She led the congregation in prayer, asking the Lord to comfort all the families who had lost loved ones in the protests and riots.
From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson
The food bank was a success and still operates today, having unfortunately outlived two of the congregations that founded it.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026
And historian Dr Michael Lambert, from Lancaster University, argued that archives held privately by religious congregations could help "unlock" important pieces of history.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
All these congregations, Mr. Huling writes, represent “parallel societies with their own sophisticated life-worlds.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
The central demographic fact of many modern American congregations is this: Men in church on an ordinary Sunday are outnumbered and aging.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
That’s how the members from the congregations would pay us, with food and a place to stay and their cast-off clothes.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
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