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  • (Pauw, Pou), an Anabaptist martyr, a maker of blocks for ships. He was a deacon in the Amsterdam congregation, preached nonresistance, condemning all use
    2 KB (379 words) - 12:54, 9 May 2020
  • the ministry in the Jura and Emmental from early times. Michael Gerber, a deacon living in the Jura, immigrated to Wayne County, Ohio, in 1822 and became
    5 KB (739 words) - 21:10, 13 April 2014
  • organized a congregation here, choosing William Gottschall (1784-1875) as their deacon, and built their own meetinghouse of stone just outside Schwenksville. In
    4 KB (529 words) - 17:52, 17 March 2014
  • of Jülich the records showed an office of teaching and baptizing and of deacons for the poor. About 1550 an elder Leitgen died, and in 1550 the "principal
    141 KB (17,966 words) - 14:22, 17 March 2023
  • Bechtel, ordained in 1804, was the first minister and Jacob Bechtel the first deacon. The Wanner and Hagey (Preston) congregations both evolved from this group
    8 KB (847 words) - 16:15, 20 May 2022
  • nurses were built on the farm of Abram B. Eshleman, Millersville-Rohrerstown deacon. The chairmen of its Board of Directors have included John H. Mellinger
    1 KB (275 words) - 07:56, 20 February 2014
  • were Mennonite Church ministers. Two daughters are ministers' wives, one a deacon's wife, and the fourth daughter is Rhoda Wenger, a missionary in Tanganyika
    3 KB (537 words) - 22:57, 15 January 2017
  • Amish Mennonite Church in his home community. There in 1890 he was chosen as deacon, one year later as preacher, and in 1906 as bishop, D. J. Johns performing
    4 KB (529 words) - 22:57, 15 January 2017
  • were N. L. Hershberger, James Bucher, and Jacob Roth; O. W. King was the deacon. The congregation withdrew from the Pacific District Conference in 1967
    2 KB (260 words) - 11:49, 11 March 2018
  • pride. The early exceptions to the above were two alms books containing the deacon's annual report of the alms funds together with the signatures of all the
    11 KB (1,499 words) - 16:52, 9 October 2018
  • well-known Elder Lubbert Gerritsz and a son of Jacob Thonis (Theunissen), a deacon of the Waterlander congregation of Amsterdam; his brother Lambert Jacobsz
    3 KB (514 words) - 00:31, 16 January 2017
  • moth­er's side of the noted Mennonite leader Lubbert Gerritsz, a son of the deacon Jacob Teunis, and a brother of Anthoni Jacobsz, was an elder of the Waterlander
    3 KB (510 words) - 22:12, 24 November 2015
  • congregation had a membership of 81 in 1953, with a staff of two ministers and two deacons, all ordained at this place. Harvey Yost was the minister in charge in the
    4 KB (476 words) - 17:08, 7 January 2021
  • native of Upper Gelre. He was married to Fyken Gerlacx van Megen. He was a deacon at Illikhoven about 1550 and after the martyrdom of Theunis van Hastenrath
    5 KB (857 words) - 00:34, 16 January 2017
  • Martin’s. John W. Brubacher, one of the original trustees was ordained as a deacon in 1847. His daughter Esther was the first burial in 1856. The congregation
    10 KB (1,228 words) - 13:57, 2 May 2024
  • Danzig (Marienwerder, 1780). In the preface the elders, ministers, and deacons state that the book was to a large extent the work of the late Elder Hans
    29 KB (4,259 words) - 23:53, 10 September 2023
  • their first worship service. The tent was erected on the homestead of their deacon, Aaron Biehn. They worshipped God, thanking him for safe travel and asking
    5 KB (713 words) - 16:22, 2 July 2022
  • in 1938, built of logs, with room for 150 persons. One minister and two deacons have been ordained in the history of the church. The meetings include weekly
    4 KB (615 words) - 14:21, 14 August 2020
  • Armendiener (in Dutch Armen-dienaar) was the title for a deacon used among the Mennonites of Europe everywhere. His duty was to look after the poor, neglected
    540 bytes (138 words) - 18:43, 20 August 2013
  • Bishop Nold had a son, Jacob Nold (1798-1864), who was the first Mennonite deacon in the Leetonia area, and who had a third edition of Christopher Dock's
    2 KB (333 words) - 11:27, 11 March 2024

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