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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • him. Herr in turn baptized Landis and Abraham Groff, Groff being elected deacon. Soon thereafter Abraham Landis was chosen preacher, followed by John Groff
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  • of 32,000 Dutch guilders received from Immetje Pieters, the widow of the deacon Claes Reyders, Twisck bought a house "De Plemp," which was remodeled as
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  • existed, then numbering 50 souls, with three elders, one preacher, and one deacon. When the congregation disappeared is not certain. After the death of Elder
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  • as a minister, without the usual pattern of serving as a deacon first. At the same time Deacon Daniel S. Iutzi was also ordained as a minister. In 1917
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  • (1811-1899) of Page County., Iowa, Bishop A. C. Good (1881- ) of Sterling, IL, Deacon Sol R. Good of Sterling, IL, and Bishop Kenneth Good (1910- ) of Morton
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  • Schmutz (1933- ). In addition there were usually two other preachers and one deacon. The noted Ingolstadt elder, Michael Horsch, was earlier a member here and
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  • families either related to the Metzlers or bearing the name; David Metzler, a deacon, who had come from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, about 1821, donated the
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  • William L. Schueler, Ministers Myron J. Beachy and Lamar K. Steiner, and Deacon Marlin J. Gerber. "Faith Hills Mennonite Church." The Mideastern Fellowship
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  • Mennonite Church (now Fellowship of Evangelical Churches), taking with him the deacon. C. P. Steiner was reinstated and worked patiently to rebuild the congregation
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  • years later. Henry Kolb also served as a preacher. Jacob Kolb was probably a deacon, for he was treasurer of the church funds. Claes Jansen and Michael Ziegler
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  • money, was a deceiver. Christian Burckholder, the son of Hans (1764) and deacon of the Gerolsheim congregation, had embezzled the poor-funds and retained
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  • circle in 1910. The congregation through its history has ordained three deacons, ten ministers, and three bishops. In 1954 Richard Yordy was pastor and
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  • Bishops Years Ministers Years Deacons Years Edward Bauman 1961-2002 Josiah Wideman 1962-2009 Josiah Martin 1962-1966 Ian Shantz 1986- Stanley Martin 1989-
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  • were added to HMF. In December 1981, Elvin Horst was ordained as the first deacon for the Schaefferstown and Muddy Creek congregations. Elvin was subsequently
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  • died 1625 at Emden, was a cloth merchant at Amsterdam and about 1620 a deacon of the Amsterdam Waterlander Mennonite church. He was married to Pietertgen
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  • 1888 with John Sommers, one of the ministers, and Daniel Schmucker, the deacon, serving as superintendents. Other outstanding Sunday-school workers have
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  • Mennonites, was a member of the Zonist congregation at Amsterdam, and a deacon at this church after 1700. The growing progressiveness and particularly
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  • a Remonstrant he was also a deacon in the Waterlander Mennonite congregation of Rotterdam. That he was a Waterlander deacon is a fact, but that he was a
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