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  • verb Present participle of pastor.

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Examples

  • Peter trained me in pastoring a small congregation.

    Letters to the editor: Sept. 1996 2000

  • Peter trained me in pastoring a small congregation.

    Letters to the editor: Sept. 1996 2000

  • Dahm—or Padre Carlos, as he is known by parishioners—is a graying white man whose more than twenty years pastoring St. Pius make him eligible for retirement, though his doing so anytime soon seems unlikely.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • The idea that “pastoring” can only be done by a “paid professional” is something that is challenged by the very core of what we believe.

    Why The Meeting House irritates Anglicans « Anglican Samizdat 2010

  • My doctor, otoh, also attends, is very enthusiastic and is the leader of a house group – where, according to him, some of the pastoring takes place.

    Why The Meeting House irritates Anglicans « Anglican Samizdat 2010

  • As for a return to pastoring a church, Haggard said: I have learned enough to know a lot can happen to anybody.

    Ted Haggard: I’m back from ‘wilderness’ 2009

  • And if my priest wife is ever to go back to pastoring a church, it would likely have to be called Grace Church, because she has the deepest theology of grace of anybody I know—a gift that comes in very handy with a husband like me who regularly needs the blessing of grace.

    Rediscovering Values Jim Wallis 2010

  • James 'story reminds me of some of my favorite times pastoring a small congregation on the southern coast of the Brittany peninsula in the 1980's.

    petite amie - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • Rob Bells also touches on good pastoring and preventing burnt out in pastors.

    Archive 2010-02-01 Alex Tang 2010

  • And if my priest wife is ever to go back to pastoring a church, it would likely have to be called Grace Church, because she has the deepest theology of grace of anybody I know—a gift that comes in very handy with a husband like me who regularly needs the blessing of grace.

    Rediscovering Values Jim Wallis 2010

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