In some smaller Protestant denominations and independent churches the term bishop is used in the same way as pastor, to refer to the leader of the local congregation, and may be male or female.

Wine and grape juice are both used, depending on the congregation.

It is not unusual in Methodism for each congregation to normally hold an annual Covenant Service on the first convenient Sunday of the year, and Wesley's Covenant Prayer is still used, with minor modification, in the order of service.

A Mass Guide used by the congregation of the Church of Saint Mary, an Episcopal Church in the Philippines | Episcopal Church in Sagada, Mountain Province | Sagada, Mountain Province, Philippines.

In some high-church Anglican and Episcopal churches, it is used in the printed order of service to indicate that instructions follow ; these indicate when the congregation should stand, sit, and kneel, who participates in various portions of the service, and similar information.

An active place of worship, with hundreds of congregation members and hundreds of thousands of visitors each year, it is used for religious services, secular civic ceremonies, concerts and lectures.

After the Reformation the college has been dissolved and the church is currently owned and used by a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran State Church of Brunswick.

The reports are used to help measure the " spirituality " of individuals and to establish the eligibility of men as congregation elders and ministerial servants.

Further north of the original site is an ancient church, now used by a Greek Orthodox congregation.

The term " Pilgrims " is now used primarily to refer to the Separatist congregation, although it is often applied to all the original settlers of Plymouth Colony ( both Separatist and Anglican ).

* Pastors: The Reverend is usually written, but the person is commonly orally addressed as Pastor Smith or " Pastor John "; the latter frequently used by members of their congregation.

It was used until about 1918 when the congregation disbanded.

The Catholic congregation used the basement before they had built their church.

The Missionary Church, built in Elbing in 1910, was used until the 1960s when the congregation moved to nearby Newton, Kansas.

It is only used as a congregation area for the police and stewards, and has not held fans since the 1989 Hillsborough disaster.

The existence of the northward door suggests it was used by a secular congregation, possibly the local nobility and patrons of the priory.

The holiness-Pentecostal movement, or sanctified movement, appealed to people who were not attuned to sophisticated church music, and holiness worship has used any type of instrumentation that congregation members might bring in, from tambourines to electric guitars.

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.

" During his Sunday sermon on March 27 he addressed his congregation on the subject of the " calamities " that had begun in his own household, but stated " it never brake forth to any considerable light, until diabolical means were used, by the making of a cake by my Indian man, who had his direction from this our sister, Mary Sibly ," going on to admonish all against the use of any kind of magic, even white magic, because it was essentially, " going to the Devil for help against the Devil.

During the Second World War the first recorded Jewish congregation was founded on families evacuated from London who used to meet at the cricket pavilion.

The Watchtower — Public Edition is the most widely circulated magazine in the world, with an average print run of over 42, 000, 000 copies per month ; The Watchtower — Study Edition is used at congregation meetings, with an average monthly print run of 14, 500, 000.

It is typically used by lay people to read the scripture lessons ( except for the Gospel lesson ), to lead the congregation in prayer, and to make announcements.

The term local churches was used by Watchman Nee to describe Christian churches that form based upon his teaching of the " ground of oneness " although that phrase has become more frequently used to refer to any individual Christian congregation in a city in recent years.

Church Building-Formerly the meeting place of the Geneva Reformed Presbyterian Church congregation, the buff colored brick building was sold to Geneva College when that congregation merged with the nearby First Reformed Presbyterian Church in the early 21st century.

Today known as First United Methodist Church, this congregation built a small log church building in 1820 ; it was London's first church and orphanage.

* Congregation Shearith Israel, 1655, is the oldest congregation in the United States, its present building dates from 1897.

Built by a congregation of abolitionists and financed in part by Richard Hunt, the chapel had been the scene of many reform lectures, and was considered the only large building in the area that would open its doors to a women's rights convention.

The United Reformed Church moved to its current building in 1936 after the previous chapel building proved too small for the growing congregation.

Church South congregation moved to a new brick building on the corner of West Columbia and Clay Streets.

" In 1809, the Baptist congregation left the town and constructed a new meeting house ( a building which survives ) several miles away near the junction of Kiokee and Greenbrier creeks.

The congregation quickly outgrew their building, and moved to Exeter Hall, then to Surrey Music Hall.

The Methodist congregation was established in 1840 and the first building was completed in 1843.

Timnath Presbyterian Church, a congregation of the Presbyterian Church ( USA ). The 1900 school building, now a secondary building to Timnath Elementary School.

There, the congregation women and older men painstakingly cleaned the mortar from the bricks, one by one, to provide the building blocks for a new St. John Lutheran Church to serve the people of Royal.

In 1861, the congregation of Bethlehem Lutheran Church erected a building which served as both a church and a school until 1867 when the present church building was built.

The present building was built in 1955-56 and is the fourth school building for the congregation.

A communities church was organized in 1961 and the congregation moved into a permanent building seven years later.

The Hopewell Presbyterian Church building dates from 1888, although the congregation was formed in 1818 and formally organized in 1828.

The church building still serves the congregation of the Presbyterian church in Catlettsburg.

While the congregation was established in that location in 1831, the current building dates from the early 1900s.

The congregation still meets in the original building that was constructed in 1873.

The South Fork German congregation building in Section 30 in 1874 is said to be the first Methodist church in Saline County.

This church merged with the North Fork congregation in 1921, building a new church in the town of Western.