How to Use ministry in a Sentence

ministry

noun
  • She learned a lot during her first year of ministry.
  • Now, the goal is to get busy and get back to our mission and ministry.
    Tribune Content Agency, al, 22 July 2023
  • Now there are over 30 that are part of the Army of Drones project of the digital ministry.
    Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Dec. 2023
  • This group has been critical of the way Amorth and his ministry are portrayed in the film.
    Joseph P. Laycock, Fortune, 4 May 2023
  • But the Duggars served as the poster children for Bill Gothard’s ministry, for this whole way of life.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Aug. 2023
  • None of them are known to be in active ministry, and at least 330 are believed to have died.
    Ruth Graham, New York Times, 23 May 2023
  • The health ministry in Gaza said 15 people were killed at the school and another 70 were wounded.
    Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 5 Nov. 2023
  • The Israeli defense ministry must approve all sales of the spyware.
    Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Reeder viewed his ministry as a battle, a life and death struggle, his son said.
    Greg Garrison | , al, 24 May 2023
  • Russia’s defense ministry that same day blamed Ukraine for the attack.
    Susie Blann, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2023
  • And with enough of that, quiet and quirky Boulder turned itself into one of the country’s mighty sports ministries overnight.
    Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • According to Gaza’s health ministry, more than eleven thousand Palestinians have been killed since the start of the war.
    Joel Simon, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2023
  • In the following years, the scope of Gothard’s ministry quickly expanded.
    Alex Gurley, Peoplemag, 1 June 2023
  • Hodges hopes to establish a program led by church staff for pastors and wives to help refresh them and keep them in ministry.
    Greg Garrison | , al, 14 July 2023
  • The health ministry for years has recorded a link between Japan’s long working hours and high rates of depression.
    Jules Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The health ministry said that at least nine ambulances had been struck since Saturday.
    Ameera Harouda, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Lippman, a member of our group in Warsaw, was presented by the culture ministry with a medal for his support for the work on the mass graves.
    Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Proceeds from the thrift shop will support the church and its schools, and the donation of goods to local homeless and animal ministries.
    Andrea Manes, Orange County Register, 14 Mar. 2024
  • South Sudan's foreign ministry said both sides had agreed to the week-long truce as the previous three-day deal was set to expire on Wednesday.
    Harold Maass, The Week, 3 May 2023
  • Stephen Sumrall and Frank Sumrall have remained in ministry.
    Tim Evans, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Determined to prove his worth, Corey packs up his dreams and heads to middle-of-nowhere Lubbock, Texas, with lofty ambitions to build his own ministry from the ground up.
    Breanna Bell, Variety, 31 Jan. 2024
  • But his earliest ministry was as a singer who performed with gospel legends Sandi Patty and the Gaithers.
    Greg Garrison | , al, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Father Holt died in Ireland earlier this month while on a trip that was gifted to him by someone whose life was touched by his ministry.
    Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The health ministry said three people had arrived at a hospital in Ramallah with injuries in the lower limbs from live fire.
    Kareem Khadder, CNN, 21 June 2023
  • The group working the other elevators in the area were a ministry contracted out of Oklahoma.
    The Courier-Journal, 5 May 2023
  • When Japan's currency approached 146 per dollar last year, its finance ministry intervened to protect the yen for the first time in decades.
    Frances Yoon, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The region attracted nearly a tenth of Turkey’s 51.4 million tourists last year, based on data from the country’s tourism ministry.
    Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2023
  • But two years after taking over Kabul’s ministries, the Taliban’s relations with the world are more complex than the chants of its supporters.
    Rick Noack, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2023
  • China’s transport ministry forecasts a record high of nine billion trips for this year’s travel season.
    Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The Gazan health ministry’s tally includes both civilians and combatants.
    Adam Rasgon, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024

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