21.   The panel includes Gonzales, an assistant pastor at Family Cathedral of Praise church in Mesquite, east of Dallas.

22.   The Rev. Philip Self, assistant pastor at Johnson Ferry Baptist Church, is hopeful.

23.   The service is led by the assistant pastor, the Rev. Jon Brown, whose wife has a respiratory problem that makes her sensitive to chemicals and fragrances.

24.   They can readily get entry-level jobs as assistant pastors, for example, but rarely lead parishes, especially large parishes.

25.   West Congregational Church in Haverhill, Mass., for instance, hired an assistant pastor three years ago whose main responsibility was to bring more men into the church.

26.   While a student, Lyons became an assistant pastor at a St. Petersburg church, taking over for one summer when the pastor took a leave.

27.   Pipala was pastor at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church here and assistant pastor at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Monroe.

28.   For the Rev. James E. Victor Jr, assistant pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, the awe was in seeing what the world could achieve.

29.   For the first four years of his ministry here, Corrales was an assistant pastor at Assumption.

30.   He spent most of the last five years as an assistant pastor at Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church, a parish in Providence with many Hispanic members.