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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 centuries4 KB (399 words) - 12:28, 15 July 2020
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 financial2 KB (305 words) - 00:57, 16 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 Mennonites17 KB (2,338 words) - 07:32, 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
- 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
- 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 of15 KB (2,070 words) - 16:03, 5 March 2021
- 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; it12 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, Copeland7 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 suburb3 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 congregation8 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 congregation47 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 system12 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 immersion7 KB (1,077 words) - 23:20, 15 January 2017