1832 R. Henley 11 ‘A house-going minister’, says Dr. Chalmers, ‘wins for himself a Church-going people’.
1847 J. Gregg 62 If they are sick, visit them; a house-going teacher will have a school-going class.
2007 (Nexis) 6 Oct. 7 The traditional custom of ‘clergy visiting’ has steadily declined in spite of the maxim, ‘a house-going minister makes a church-going people’.