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• Oortwijn family
  Mennonite family name; members of this family, many of them having served as deacons, are found in a number of North Holland congregations, e.g., Oost and West-Graftdijk
  476 bytes (125 words) - 04:48, 18 February 2016
• Jensma family
  Friesland since the 17th century. Many members of the family have served as deacons in the St. Anna Parochie congregation. MLA style Zijpp, Nanne van ders.
  399 bytes (126 words) - 09:02, 20 January 2014
• Braitmichel, Kaspar (d. 1573)
  1530s, perhaps as early as 1533. In 1538 he was chosen Diener der Notdurft (deacon). In the following year he was captured during a religious service at Steinabrunn
  5 KB (794 words) - 00:02, 16 January 2017
• Jamerau (Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)
  parents) had fled from Lithuania about 1732. Abraham Nickel of Jamerau, a deacon of the Schönsee congregation, in 1806 presented a gift of 30,000 Talers
  3 KB (415 words) - 16:05, 30 July 2022
• Byerland Mennonite Church (Willow Street, Pennsylvania, USA)
  Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to Charles Christopher and Jacob Boehm, deacons, whereon was built a small log meetinghouse, still standing in 1950, although
  2 KB (320 words) - 19:18, 8 August 2023
• Stroman family
  Norden in East Friesland, Germany, some of whose members have served as deacons. Bernard Johan Hendrik Stro­man, born 1902 at Rotterdam, a printer, published
  465 bytes (137 words) - 16:01, 20 January 2014
• Loos family
  province of Overijssel. They usually were lumber dealers and some of them were deacons of the Mennonite congregation. One of them was Jacob Loos Bzn (1839-1890)
  516 bytes (137 words) - 02:18, 18 February 2016
• Hoogland family
  Mennonite family in the Dutch province of Friesland, mostly farmers and often deacons of the church since the 18th century. They lived in the Bildt region and
  560 bytes (140 words) - 15:46, 20 January 2014
• Göding (Jihomoravský kraj, Czech Republic)
  Austria and back again. In 1564 Hans of Cologne, a mason by trade, was a deacon in Göding. A generation later, 11 November 1593, the brotherhood bought
  3 KB (551 words) - 00:26, 16 January 2017
• Rockhill Mennonite Church (Telford, Pennsylvania, USA)
  1764-1802, Abraham Gehman 1770-1792, and Samuel Gehman 1799-1845. The first deacon was Michael Derstine (died 1777). A small faction left in 1848 to join the
  4 KB (391 words) - 13:42, 30 October 2019
• Friesen, Abraham L. (1831-1917)
  Molotschna, South Russia - 17 June 1889, Jefferson County, Nebraska, USA), a deacon in the Kleine Gemeinde, and Anganetha (Loepp) Friesen (27 January 1808,
  4 KB (569 words) - 19:14, 20 August 2013
• Weber, Urias K. (1879-1971)
  He married Magdalena Shoemaker (14 October 1879-5 May 1958), daughter of Deacon Benjamin and Mary (Shantz) Shoemaker on 5 July 1899. They had nine children
  3 KB (524 words) - 20:23, 8 September 2017
• Texline Mennonite Church (Texline, Texas, USA)
  Perico and Bunkerhill communities. Deacon Jake and Lizzie Wedel and family were some of the first to move to the area. Deacon John Boeckner bought land and
  4 KB (566 words) - 13:24, 19 March 2021
• African American Missions (USA)
  American minister in the Mennonite Church (MC); although there was an elected deacon at the Ninth Street Church in Saginaw. The four rapidly growing young churches
  7 KB (842 words) - 12:32, 1 June 2024
• Bussy, Izaak Jan le Cosquino de (1846-1920)
  city of Amsterdam. He served the churches at Utrecht and Amsterdam as a deacon, was for a number of years a member of the board of the Amsterdam Mennonite
  6 KB (976 words) - 00:03, 16 January 2017
• Frey, Elias L. (1856-1942)
  Fulton County near Pettisville in 1844. He was baptized in 1880, ordained deacon in 1884. He married Anna Short, was the father of eleven children, one of
  2 KB (290 words) - 16:08, 2 December 2013
• Workum (Friesland, Netherlands)
  disturbed in the Workum church by differing politi­cal views. Whereas the deacon Ruurd Wopkes sided with the Orangists (political party favoring the Prince
  10 KB (1,408 words) - 17:37, 7 December 2016
• Mannheim (Baden-Württemberg, Germany)
  predikanten der Mennoniten in de Vereenigde Nederlanden|Naamlijst]]). The deacon was David Bechtel (Müller, 221). For a long time Mannheim was a center of
  18 KB (2,591 words) - 23:25, 15 January 2017
• Haring family
  preacher of the Frisian congregation (Oude Huijs). Other members served as deacons. Lootsma, S. Het Nieuwe Huijs. Zaandam, 1937: 47, 190, 193. MLA style Zijpp
  590 bytes (146 words) - 17:06, 18 February 2016
• Roggeveen family
  spread all over the Netherlands. Members of this family have served as deacons in many congregations. C. M. Roggeveen, of Blaricum, has been secretary
  539 bytes (141 words) - 19:53, 13 April 2014

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