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  • Mennonite church officials, Funk a bishop, Kolb a preacher, and Meyer and Reiff deacons. Services were conducted exclusively in German for almost two centuries
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  • 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; they
    9 KB (1,438 words) - 07:27, 16 January 2017
  • been a deacon. Hamburg also had deaconesses, though on a voluntary, unorganized basis. The church council was composed of preachers and deacons. The most
    32 KB (4,839 words) - 20:50, 5 February 2024
  • Eby, Daniel Brenneman, John Krupp, Daniel Wismer and John Bear) and three deacons, though new ministers began to be ordained within the year. The membership
    5 KB (763 words) - 13:11, 26 October 2019
  • excommunicated two preachers, Abraham L. Friesen and Peter Friesen, and two deacons, Jacob Friesen and Klaas Friesen. There was a reconciliation on 6 May 1869
    27 KB (3,871 words) - 18:54, 5 July 2023
  • 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 Bergey
    3 KB (484 words) - 22:04, 1 January 2017
  • Jan van Son, Matthys Hermansz, and Aert Conincx, apparently preachers or deacons of the congregation), was unable to do anything for the oppressed Mennonites
    17 KB (2,338 words) - 07:32, 16 January 2017
  • Jisp. Some members of this Mol family served as preachers, elders, and deacons in the 17th and 18th centuries. Hoop Scheffer, Jacob Gijsbert de. Inventaris
    2 KB (443 words) - 07:30, 16 January 2017
  • from the usual pattern in that its annual conferences are attended by the deacons rather than the ministers, for the reason that its purpose is the financial
    2 KB (305 words) - 00:57, 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 the
    7 KB (589 words) - 11:18, 24 February 2021
  • the congregations. Elections and ordinations (for life) of ministers and deacons were his responsibility. The ministers continued to itinerate in the Manitoba
    10 KB (1,050 words) - 02:23, 29 August 2023
  • in a slow tempo, the sermon, and the testimony of all the ministers and deacons present as to the soundness of the truth as delivered by the preacher of
    15 KB (2,070 words) - 16:03, 5 March 2021
  • 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 toward
    6 KB (896 words) - 11:22, 11 March 2024
  • from a leading minister in charge with a council of other ministers and deacons to an executive committee composed of lay leaders and pastoral staff; it
    12 KB (1,407 words) - 02:31, 28 December 2023
  • 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, Copeland
    7 KB (873 words) - 11:23, 15 March 2021
  • 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 suburb
    3 KB (416 words) - 23:20, 15 January 2017
  • 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 congregation
    8 KB (965 words) - 19:04, 27 February 2021
  • Barbier of Emden and Michel Janszoon of Oisterhout, Brabant, served as deacons in the Danzig congregation. Apparently the only Anabaptist congregation
    47 KB (6,535 words) - 07:01, 16 January 2017
  • less affected by change in the larger society. The Board of Ministers and Deacons found itself quite occupied in helping congregations move to the new system
    12 KB (1,189 words) - 15:33, 20 April 2020
  • arose in the Dutch Mennonite congregation of Leeuwarden. Here in 1714 the deacons favoring immersion were in the majority. In 1715 a baptistery for immersion
    7 KB (1,077 words) - 23:20, 15 January 2017

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