1.   He now works a lay minister visiting patients in nursing homes in Barnard Castle and Darlington, although suffering from chronic spinal pains.

2.   And some parishes, such as St. Agnes in Phoenix, have been training lay ministers for several years to compete head to head with the evangelicals.

3.   Black people were discouraged from becoming members, and African-American men were prohibited from being lay ministers.

4.   But one former Kansas Citian, Gigi Gruenke, who is a lay minister in San Salvador, is writing daily reports to her friends back home.

5.   Church policies now mandate that volunteers, deacons, lay ministers, youth ministers, teachers, and priests be fingerprinted and subjected to a criminal background checks.

6.   Dr. Ogden, the Boston therapist, speaks of a friend who had worked her way up to the position of lay minister in her church.

7.   In the hands of novelist Denise Giardina, who is also a lay Episcopalian minister, these little crises are the stuff of high drama.

8.   Pfeiffer wants to review not only the records of priests with cases of sexual abuse of minors but of employees such as secretaries, teachers and lay ministers.

9.   Sometimes, lay ministers work with clergypeople who may specialize in religious education or youth ministry.

10.   --The number of lay ministers is booming.