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- "A lot of our community members felt harassed, discriminated against," said Salahadin Wazir, the imam of the Clarkston mosque, whose congregation was often ticketed for parking improperly around the mosque at Friday prayers.†
Chpt 3congregation = people who worship together in the same building
- "Liberians have been through a conflict for almost thirty years," said the Reverend William B. G. K. Harris, a Liberian-born pastor at the International Christian Ministries, a mostly Liberian congregation just south of Atlanta.†
Chpt 11
- As refugees moved to Clarkston in the 1990s, many members of the church's white congregation became so uncomfortable with their changing surroundings that they decided to move away.†
Chpt 19
- It was then that a group of church elders met to discuss the congregation's future.†
Chpt 19
- Perrin was an unlikely advocate for a multiethnic congregation.†
Chpt 19
- But as he witnessed the slow-motion death of his church, Perrin began to believe that God was punishing the congregation for not living by the ways Jesus had prescribed.†
Chpt 19
- The solution, he argued, was that the church remake itself as an explicitly international congregation that reflected the diversity outside its doors.†
Chpt 19
- It would have to make changes in its services, particularly with music, to accommodate a broad array of worship styles, and it would have to reach out to the small congregations of Liberian, Sudanese, and Ethiopian Christians and others who were meeting around Clarkston in borrowed spaces.†
Chpt 19
- On Sundays, separate congregations of Liberians, Ethiopians, French-speaking West Africans, and Sudanese meet at various times throughout the day to worship in their native styles, and a bigger, come-one, come-all service takes place in the main sanctuary in English.†
Chpt 19
- Phil Kitchin, the current pastor, said a multinational congregation presents all sorts of problems that a more homogenous church would not.†
Chpt 19
- There are disputes over the style of music that should be played during services, and there is a fear among the various ethnic groups that by joining the main congregation they might also give up elements of their own worship styles, and by extension ties to their old countries and cultures.†
Chpt 19
- William Perrin found himself looking forward to his church's potluck dinners because he so enjoyed the exotic meals brought by members of the various African congregations.†
Chpt 19 *
- A public bus struck a Sudanese man in front of a church with a mostly Sudanese congregation.†
Chpt 26
Definitions:
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(1)
(congregation as in: the congregation voted) people who worship together in the same building
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, congregation can reference any group of people, animals, or things collected together.