Debt to the God for their blessings: paid by rituals and offerings.

The statue was happily adorned with flowers and surrounded by offerings of bananas, sweets and coins.

Their purpose is to encourage fellowship among Missionary Baptist churches that practice ministerial support by freewill offerings.

The more conservative groupings also operate their own private Christian day schools (operated by free will offerings) in preference to promoting home schooling.

They were not buried in cists and were unaccompanied by offerings.

It was all too easy to give away secrets while dazzled by offerings of this caliber.

In 1980, a master's program in health services administration was offered followed in the early 90's by various other graduate offerings.

The empty alejacks scattered on the table before him made the coroner look like an angry Bacchus surrounded by votive offerings.

The most obvious sign of the celebrations are the penjor - bamboo poles weighed down by offerings suspended at the end.

The mummified body of an adult individual was found, surrounded by offerings such as ceramics, stone utensils, stems and corn cobs.