ministering

Example Sentences

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The region’s Catholic institutions responded to last year’s aggressive raids with an outpouring of charity, reorganizing many food pantries around grocery delivery and ministering directly to communities many described as under siege.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026

Bedraggled and bleeding, he opens his eyes to find Anna ministering to him and is rhapsodically smitten.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025

The Church of England says that faith chaplains have been ministering to schools for centuries.

From BBC • Nov. 7, 2024

My recent employment has been as a hospice chaplain, ministering to dying people and their families.

From Salon • Nov. 3, 2024

Two of them made a number of visits but spent more time performing autopsies on dead bodies than ministering to the sick.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy