It was designed to prepare men for the ministry and to supply education for lay members.

Contrary to the dominant lay ministry that existed in the Nephite culture, Nehor established a church in which priests were given a separate social status and were paid for their ministry.

One of the earliest acts of the new ministry was to lay an embargo upon corn, which was thought necessary in order to prevent a dearth resulting from the unprecedented bad harvest of 1766.

The ministry of the church at the congregational level is led by lay priesthood members and is carried out by all members of the priesthood and the laity.

The college also prepares people for lay ministry.

It was designed to prepare men for the ministry and to supply education for lay members.

There are two " streams ", ordered ministry and lay ministry.

Lay ministry refers to licensed lay ministers, designated lay ministers ( DLM ) and congregational designated ministers ( CDM ).

Membership continued to decline slowly throughout the decade, despite a report that lay ministry was on the increase.

: Saint Paul ’ s Theological Seminary ( SPTS ) is a theological institution dedicated to serve the theological training needs of the Church for ordained and lay ministry.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints practices the principle of having a lay ministry.

An unpaid lay ministry is not considered a doctrinal issue, but a preference for it is recognized in Paul's writings.

Also, the church formally ordained a lay ministry, with the priesthood offices of deacon, teacher, priest, and elder.

Also, the church formally ordained a lay ministry.

Some Orthodox writers regard deaconesses as having been a " lay " ministry.

The Volunteer Youth Ministry program provides for lay missionaries who commit themselves for 2½ years in ministry serving as English language teachers.

There is a move to restructure the orders of ministry in the UMC at the 2008 General Conference, but most observers believe it will fail and the UMC will continue to have most of its clergy drawn from lay persons.

He published on wide ranging topics, including Mary, the Eucharist, lay ministry and the Holy Spirit, as well as his diaries from his experiences during the Second Vatican Council.

This reflects his view that the ministry of word and sacrament belong together and, as lay people have long been permitted to preach in the Sydney diocese, it is thought they ought to be permitted to lead communion services.

It is home to the Institute for Anglican Ministry, a ministry of the Diocese of Rupert's Land that seeks to train Anglican lay people.

The Church operates by lay ministry, and local leaders, teachers, and speakers are not compensated.

It is hard not to lay most of the blame for their failures on the pope.

Behind him lay the Low Countries, where men were still completing the cathedrals that a later Florentine would describe as `` a malediction of little tabernacles, one on top of the other, with so many pyramids and spires and leaves that it is a wonder they stand up at all, for they look as though they were made of paper instead of stone or marble '' ; ;

A president is frequently besieged to serve in non-academic civic and governmental capacities, to make speeches to lay groups, and to make numerous ceremonial appearances on and off campus.

and it is not unlikely that, even as the great Bach lay dormant for so many years, so has the erudite, ingenious SalFininistas passed through his `` purgatory '' of neglect.

The firm is prominent in making equipment for cleaning seed cotton, driers, and heaters, and they lay claim to being the first maker ( 1910 ) of boil extraction equipment.

In the above mentioned report of the Notre Dame Chapter of the American Association of University Professors, the basic outlook of the new breed of lay faculty emerges very clearly in the very statement of the problem as the members see it: `` Even with the best of intentions he ( the President of the university ) is loath to delegate such authority and responsibility to a group the membership of which, considered ( as it must be by him ) in individual terms, is inhomogeneous, mortal and of extremely varying temperament, interests and capabilities.

This is not only a compliment to Mijbil, of whom there are a fine series of photographs and drawings in the book, but to the author who has catalogued the saga of a frightened otter cub's journey by plane from Iraq to London, then by train ( where he lay curled in the wash basin playing with the water tap ) to Camusfearna, with affectionate detail.

All this will serve to show off the Ory style in fine fashion and is a must for those who want to collect elements of the old-time jazz before it is too late to lay hands on the gems.

Miss Pons is certainly not 70 -- no singer ever is -- and yet the rewards of the evening again lay more in paying tribute to a great figure of times gone by than in present accomplishments.

Ekstrohm lay in his bunk and thought, the camp is quiet.

The ecclesiastical leadership exercised by abbots despite their frequent lay status is proved by their attendance and votes at ecclesiastical councils.

A counterweight is often provided at the other end of the shank to lay it down before it becomes buried.

There is a legend that as an infant, a swarm of bees settled on his face while he lay in his cradle, leaving behind a drop of honey.

It is at this point that Paris gives Aeneas Priam's sword, in order to give legitimacy and continuity to the Royal Line of Troy – and lay the foundations of Rome.

He argues that Kant's " aesthetic " merely represents an experience that is the product of an elevated class habitus and scholarly leisure as opposed to other possible and equally valid " aesthetic " experiences which lay outside Kant's narrow definition.

In fact, Buddhism, in its fundamental form, does not define what is right and what is wrong in absolute terms for lay followers.

Buddhist monks and nuns of most traditions are expected to refrain from all sexual activity and take vows of celibacy ; lay people, however, are not expected to refrain from any specific form of sexual activity, and there is no concept of sinfulness attached to sex.

" Formal axiology, the attempt to lay out principles regarding value with mathematical rigor, is exemplified by Robert S. Hartman's Science of Value.

The funeral is sung about in Heorot as part of a lay during the feasting to mark Beowulf's victory over Grendel.

The path continues to ascend, and the side of the ravine, on which it runs, becomes steeper, until a cave is reached above which the mountain now rises almost perpendicularly ; while on the right, it strikes in a rapid descent down to where, in St Benedict's day, below, lay the blue waters of the lake.