St. Matthew's German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Charleston, South Carolina suffered 308 yellow fever deaths in 1858, reducing the congregation by half.

The congregation also suffered from heavy debts, almost quadrupling from 1717 to 1729.

Nero persecuted Roman Christians after Rome burned in 64, and the congregation may have suffered further persecution under Domitian ( 81 – 96 ).

In 1725, he was baptised by Conrad Beissel, and when the Conestoga Brethren congregation suffered a schism, he strongly supported Beissel.

Going by a prophecy, the remaining Hamburg congregation gave themselves under the care of Apostle Menkhoff but the congregation had suffered severe losses from the schism.

In the late 20th and early 21st century the reputation of the congregation suffered from the exposure of a series of scandals involving emotional, physical and sexual abuse of Irish children in the congregation's care, stretching back over a long period of time.

Such evidence can be details of where they lived, including addresses sometimes, particulars of illnesses suffered and notable events in their lives, often known only to the person in the congregation being given the information.

there was no Martian concept to match it -- unless one took `` church '' and `` worship '' and `` God '' and `` congregation '' and many other words and equated them to the totality of the only world he had known during growing-waiting then forced the concept back into English in that phrase which had been rejected ( by each differently ) by Jubal, by Mahmoud, by Digby.

It was decided, during development, that the use of the services therein would be decided on by each given congregation, so as to avoid as much conflict as possible with traditionalists.

* The offertory money collected from a church congregation during a service, often by such means as a collection plate

He never joined a Unitarian congregation: there were none near his home in Virginia during his lifetime.

It is notable that during the public recitation of Ashamnu together with the cantor, the entire congregation sings these words to a tune, representing the joy of being cleansed from one's sins.

Precisely what the Bar / Bat Mitzvah should lead during the service varies in Judaism's different denominations and from one congregation to another and is not fixed by Jewish law.

) On numerous occasions, for example in the 1983 TV special Star Trek Memories ( which is often syndicated along with The Original Series ), Nimoy recounts how as a child, he peeked during the blessing and witnessed the gesture, although the congregation are supposed to put hands over eyes or turn away at this moment in acknowledgement of the presence of the Almighty.

On 20 November 1983, three members of the congregation in the Mountain Lodge Pentecostal Church, Darkley near Keady, County Armagh were shot dead during a Sunday service.

The church congregation gathers at Martha ’ s bedside to pray for her recovery, and during this period an angel ( Rogenia Goldthwaite ) arrives to take Martha ’ s spirit from her body.

Then the ministers and congregation all faced east during the whole celebration ; and in Western Europe altars began, in the Middle Ages, to be permanently placed against the east wall of the chancel.

In 1387 however, a site was secured at Windesheim, some north of Deventer, and here was established the monastery that became the cradle of the Windesheim congregation of canons regular embracing in course of time nearly one hundred houses, and leading the way in the series of reforms undertaken during the 15th century by all the religious orders in Germany.

The British Treasury annually pays a small sum for the maintenance of nine graves of nine Royal Marines killed in action during the skirmish to the local church congregation.

These two sounds, constituting a single unit of shofar sounding, were rendered three times during a service added specially for Rosh HaShanah: first in honor of God's Kingship ( malchiot ); next to recall the near sacrifice of Isaac, in order to cause the congregation to be remembered before God ( zichronot ); and a third time to comply with the precept regarding the shofar ( shofrot ).

* Jimmy G. Tharpe ( 1930 – 2008 ), founder of Louisiana Baptist University in Shreveport, pastored during the early 1950s the Trinity Baptist Church, then a Missionary Baptist congregation in Doyline but since Independent Baptist.

For many years, the church also followed a German tradition of segregating the congregation during services, with men on one side and women on the other, married adults in the rear, single adults in the center, and children in the front.

The orthodox Catholic position was that the sacrament was for precisely such cases, though at the time the Church still followed the discipline of public penance whereby a penitent for such a grievous offence would spend years, even decades, first outside the doors of the church begging for the prayers of those entering, then kneeling inside the church building during services, then standing with the congregation, and finally receiving the Eucharist again in a long progress toward full reconciliation.

* Low Mass: the priest sings no part of the Mass, though in some places a choir or the congregation sings, during the Mass, hymns not always directly related to the Mass.

Christ Church, in the site of the graveyard at the centre of the village, was in use in 1697 and was the largest, but this thatched-roof structure was too small to hold the entire population, and most of the congregation had to gather in the churchyard during services.

The Eid day starts with a small snack followed by Eid prayers in congregation attended by men, women and children in which the sermon reminds Egyptians of the virtues and good deeds they should do unto others, even strangers, during Eid and throughout the year.

When Haman's name is read out during the public chanting of the Megillah in the synagogue, which occurs 54 times, the congregation engages in noisemaking to blot out his name.

The church was used for Catholic Mass by the congregation of St Augustine's Church during the refurbishment of their church between April and December 2005.

#* When the chazzan reaches this blessing during the repetition, the congregation recites a prayer called Modim deRabbanan (" the thanksgiving of the Rabbis ").

The congregation traditionally stands during the entire repetition of this prayer, which contains a variety of confessional and supplicatory additions.

In many communities, when the chazzan reaches these lines during his repetition, he pauses and the congregation recites the lines before him.

The ceremony soon gained so firm a foothold in America that soon there was no progressive Jewish congregation in which it did not occur during Shavuot.

When food was scarce after the long wars with France in 1817 he started a scheme of selling sixpenny loaves for three pence supported by donations from his congregation and distributed 1, 000 loaves.

Its cultural identity is very similar to that of the rest of Lower Hutt and has progressed would jokingly disagree a long way from the " congregation of old sheelbacks and whalers, men-o '- wars men and seamen, lags and hard cases, living in tents and whares ... heterogeneous mass of misguided humanity " that existed in 1855.

Van Dyke was an " ardent foe of the annexation of the Philippines, told his congregation in 1898, ' If we enter the course of foreign conquest, the day is not far distant when we must spend in annual preparation for wars more than the $ 180, 000, 000 that we now spend every year in the education of our children for peace.

Meanwhile, under the direction of Benedict XIV ( pope 1740 – 1758 ), a special congregation collected much material for an official revision, but nothing was published.

John Ulrich Giesendanner led his Lutheran congregation from Pennsylvania in 1740, into the part of North Carolina around Haw River, Reedy Fork, Eno River, Alamance Creek, Travis Creek, Beaver Creek and Deep River.

Watts ( 1674 – 1748 ), whose father was an Elder of a dissenter congregation, complained at age 16, that when allowed only psalms to sing, the faithful could not even sing about their Lord, Christ Jesus.

His father was a minister in an Assemblies of God congregation, served as president of Evangel University ( 1958 – 74 ), and jointly as President of Central Bible College ( 1958 – 63 ).

* David Yonggi Cho – Senior pastor and founder of the Yoido Full Gospel Church ( Assemblies of God ) in Seoul, Korea, the world's largest congregation

Though a congregation of bishops assembled at Paris in December 1761 recommended no action, Louis XV of France ( 1715 – 74 ) promulgated a royal order permitting the Society to remain in the kingdom, with the proviso that certain essentially liberalising changes in their institution satisfy the Parlement with a French Jesuit vicar-general who should be independent of the general in Rome.

The first official acceptance of the Unitarian faith on the part of a congregation in America was by King's Chapel in Boston, which settled James Freeman ( 1759 – 1835 ) in 1782, and revised the Prayer Book into a mild Unitarian liturgy in 1785.

* April 17 – The first avowedly Unitarian congregation, Essex Street Chapel, is founded in London by Theophilus Lindsey.

Ultimately, at least 150 of the congregation did make their way to Amsterdam meeting up with the Smyth party, who had joined with the Exiled English Church led by Francis Johnson ( 1562 – 1617 ), Barrowe's successor.

The letters of Ignatius of Antioch ( c. 35 – c. 107 ) indicate the several congregations were headed by individual bishops but that Rome's congregation was not.

In 1789, Reverend Richard Wood ( 1756 – 1831 ) established Forks-of-the-River Baptist Church, which reported a congregation of 22 in 1790.

The Yakima Buddhist Bussei Kaikan ( 1936 – 1941 ), on West 2nd Street, was an architecturally noteworthy building built by members of the congregation.

* Huldrych Zwingli ( 1484 – 1531 ) was a leading Reformer who was influenced by a party in his church congregation to de-metaphorize the understanding of the Lord's Supper into a memorial only ( no real presence, and no communion of saints, therefore no eschatological community of saints composed of the believers at the Communion Table ).

According to a family tradition, given by William Turner, on settling at Norwich he went through Samuel Clarke's Scripture Doctrine of the Trinity ( 1712 ) with his congregation, adopted its view, and came forward ( 1737 ) in defence of a dissenting layman excommunicated for heterodoxy on this topic by James Sloss ( 1698 – 1772 ) of Nottingham, a pupil of John Simson.

Their first two ministers, James Bayley ( 1673 – 79 ) and George Burroughs ( 1680 – 83 ), stayed only a few years each, departing after the congregation failed to pay their full rate.

The third minister, Deodat Lawson ( 1684 – 88 ), had not stayed either, but his departure was prompted by the refusal of the church in Salem to ordain him and not over issues with the congregation.

In April 1908 Bresee accepted Edgar P. Ellyson, president of the Holiness University of Texas of Peniel, Texas, his wife, Mary Emily Ellyson ( 1869 – 1943 ), and many leaders and members of the Holiness Association of Texas into the Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene, with Emily Ellyson elected pastor of the new congregation at Peniel.

Johannes Leydt ( 1718 – 1783 ), minister of the Dutch Reformed congregation at New Brunswick and at Six Mile Run in Franklin Township ( both from 1748 until his death ), and Trustee of Queen's CollegeMatriculating as a sophomore when instruction began in 1771, he graduated at the age of 19 with a Bachelor of Arts ( A. B.

* Lincoln Square Synagogue – Modern Orthodox congregation, 200 Amsterdam Avenue at 69th Street.

* Congregation Habonim – founded by refugees on the first anniversary of the Kristalnacht, this congregation occupies a classic post-World War II suburban style synagogue at 44 West 66th Street just off of Central Park West.

* Congregation Shearith Israel – oldest Jewish congregation in what is now the United States was launched in 1655.

* The Jewish Center – the very first " shul with a pool ," now a more circumspect Modern Orthodox congregation on West 86th Street between Amsterdam and Columbus avenues.