Then the pastor asked everyone to raise their right hands and say, "Isaiah's life was not in vain."

Your own pastor asked me to say good-bye to you, son.

He said a former pastor asked him years ago to compose something to celebrate Advent.

For example, those pastors can ask women to be guest preachers or have them fill in when they go on vacation.

"The pastor asks visitors to identify themselves and to tell where they're from," she said.

The pastor also reached out to former members and asked them to return - with family and friends.

Then his pastor asked him to run a nonprofit after-school program a few days a week.

After arriving at a church, the pastor asks the name of the child.

The pastor at the time asked him to expose it to the parishioners during vespers that evening.

The pastor asked if we could go inside.