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pastor

[pas-ter, pah-ster] / ˈpæs tər, ˈpɑ stər /


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The pastor did not say whether he benefited from living in a grace-and-favor parsonage.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

Boateng, a 61-year-old pastor at Gospel Light church, has been preaching on commercial vehicles leaving Neoplan station since 2023.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Zuckerberg spoke alongside Wang at the same keynote address, wearing his new Hillsong pastor drip, the T-shirt this time emblazoned with the slogan “Building is my love language.”

From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2026

“Do what you came to do,” Williams, a young-adult pastor, urged them as the group prepared to vote.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

“No need for that, you two. Go get ready for school and let me and the pastor talk.”

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez

Its members included senior pastors, first ladies, evangelists, and other women with constituencies of their own that travel far in a state like Michigan.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026

Bernice Nartey, a passenger travelling to Kumasi, says pastors should be allowed to preach, but only with passengers' consent.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

I remember helping organize a food bank with several other pastors in the inner city on the Eastern seaboard.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026

Ren insisted that financial giving -- used partly to pay pastors -- is part of Biblical teaching practised by Christian churches.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

Together each summer, Mama Lessie and I worked at the vacation Bible schools in Granddaddy’s two churches, as well as other churches that had only occasional guest pastors and no full-time pastors.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry


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