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- enthusiastically co-operated with the Patriots. Pieter Bel and Pieter Houttuyn, both deacons of the Mennonite congregation in Hoorn, fled to Brussels in 1788 to escape7 KB (1,021 words) - 17:22, 23 January 2014
- Baer, 1939-1947. In 1953 the bishop in charge was Curtis C. Cressman. The deacons who served here were Jacob Bock, John Cressman, David Bergey, Gilbert Bergey3 KB (484 words) - 22:04, 1 January 2017
- Eby, Daniel Brenneman, John Krupp, Daniel Wismer and John Bear) and three deacons, though new ministers began to be ordained within the year. The membership5 KB (763 words) - 13:11, 26 October 2019
- Jisp. Some members of this Mol family served as preachers, elders, and deacons in the 17th and 18th centuries. Hoop Scheffer, Jacob Gijsbert de. Inventaris2 KB (443 words) - 07:30, 16 January 2017
- performed the function of administering the Lord's Supper but also ministers, deacons, and possibly lay members. Gradually the practice developed that elders41 KB (6,309 words) - 14:08, 31 December 2018
- be ordained by the laying on of the elder's hands. To care for the poor, deacons should be chosen according to the example of the apostolic church; they9 KB (1,438 words) - 07:27, 16 January 2017
- originally from Fürstenland, Russia. One bishop, five other ministers, and two deacons emigrated from Russia prior to 1880 and were accepted as leaders by the7 KB (589 words) - 11:18, 24 February 2021
- been a deacon. Hamburg also had deaconesses, though on a voluntary, unorganized basis. The church council was composed of preachers and deacons. The most32 KB (4,839 words) - 20:50, 5 February 2024
- received them kindly. In Alexovitz they had a Bruderhof (Beck, 393) with deacons (352) and preachers (352). The Swiss Brethren had their center in a suburb3 KB (416 words) - 23:20, 15 January 2017
- board of deacons of the First Mennonite Church, which took the lead in forming the new congregation, met in joint session with the board of deacons of the2 KB (350 words) - 21:39, 29 October 2019
- launched about five miles south of the Montezuma church. Four ministers, two deacons, and 148 members moved to the new congregation. In 1996 the Montezuma, Copeland7 KB (873 words) - 11:23, 15 March 2021
- school in the church. In 1941 records show that they had a deacon on the Ministers and Deacons committee of the BC Conference. By all accounts the congregation8 KB (965 words) - 19:04, 27 February 2021
- John C. Krehbiel, who died in 1886, was the last preacher, but one of the deacons, Henry Weber, conducted services by reading sermons for perhaps 10 years2 KB (384 words) - 12:22, 8 November 2022
- Among the members the de Waard family were numerous; many of them were deacons and Jacob Symons and his son Jan Jacobs de Waard, both farmers, were preachers3 KB (415 words) - 06:12, 26 October 2014
- Harms, served an average congregation of 230, the membership being 210. The deacons assisting the pastor were George J. Rempel and Peter L. Classen. In 20081 KB (267 words) - 22:40, 8 November 2016
- excommunicated two preachers, Abraham L. Friesen and Peter Friesen, and two deacons, Jacob Friesen and Klaas Friesen. There was a reconciliation on 6 May 186927 KB (3,871 words) - 18:54, 5 July 2023
- the congregations. Elections and ordinations (for life) of ministers and deacons were his responsibility. The ministers continued to itinerate in the Manitoba10 KB (1,050 words) - 02:23, 29 August 2023
- Mennonites, as were ten of the twenty-two ministers and one of the five deacons. Even then, however, some of the Amish Mennonites were unfriendly toward6 KB (896 words) - 11:22, 11 March 2024
- the last three salaried. With them served 21 associate ministers and 15 deacons. Twenty-eight missionaries went to the foreign field by 1954. In 1954 the4 KB (457 words) - 07:39, 11 March 2014
- and David VanPelt, Ministers Elvin Neuenschwander and Ernest Steiner, and Deacons Clarence Eberly and David Steiner. Mennonite Church Directory 2014. Harrisonburg2 KB (323 words) - 06:43, 5 May 2015