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  • ordains ministers and deacons, administers baptism, serves communion, presides over membership meetings and meetings of ministers and deacons, and provides general
    24 KB (3,534 words) - 00:05, 16 January 2017
  • extremely large, and consequently high demands were made upon the funds of the deacons; in 1695, for example, about 50 members, one fourth of the total membership
    9 KB (1,164 words) - 17:10, 6 July 2016
  • Jacobsz signed the confession of Outerman. They may be supposed to have been deacons. In 1645 Cornelis Born was a preacher. This congregation, which seems to
    5 KB (766 words) - 00:27, 16 January 2017
  • Stroink were leaders in the congregation, the latter three having been deacons for a number of years. Though incorporated in Germany and a member of the
    3 KB (525 words) - 00:28, 16 January 2017
  • municipal government of Goes compelled the preachers, the precentor, and the deacons of the Mennonite Church to sign 12 articles (see Geuzenvragen), in which
    7 KB (1,008 words) - 00:26, 16 January 2017
  • Creek, Ohio, numbered 61 members in 1958, with three ministers and two deacons. -- John S. Umble In 1988 there were congregations representing six different
    5 KB (678 words) - 19:22, 12 May 2014
  • Conference had 12 congregations with 2,440 members, 7 bishops, 17 ministers, 6 deacons. Although occasional meetings of the ministers of the settlement had been
    3 KB (495 words) - 15:14, 27 July 2014
  • 1912), Johannes Dyck (1919), Ernst Dyck (1928), Heinrich Wall (1934); the deacons were Gustav Wiens (1923) and Gustav Schulz (1928). Jakob Jantzen died an
    9 KB (1,063 words) - 15:58, 23 June 2020
  • The mem­bers live at Winterswijk and surrounding towns. Until 1786 the deacons, sometimes called directors, always two, were chosen from the married men
    6 KB (709 words) - 16:24, 17 November 2016
  • Conference he organized a number of congregations and ordained ministers and deacons in Alberta. He died in Vineland on 28 June 1954. He was one of the outstanding
    6 KB (769 words) - 06:36, 13 February 2014
  • an agreement was made between the governors of the Oranjeappel and the deacons of the Amsterdam Mennonite congregation. Henceforth, the foundation of the
    2 KB (290 words) - 15:48, 20 January 2014
  • did not feel at home and complained of the interference of the Middelburg deacons and the "big bosses" of the Amsterdam committee. The colonization was a
    3 KB (487 words) - 16:38, 14 June 2016
  • the congregation had five ministers, four ministerial candidates, four deacons, in addition to the Elder Johann Martens. The majority of them had a secondary
    4 KB (501 words) - 21:34, 24 October 2020
  • County, Ontario, about 1850, was the earliest resident minister. The first deacons were Daniel Lehman, Samuel Reesor, Henry Baer. See Hay; Stanley; Clemens;
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  • performed the function of administering the Lord's Supper but also ministers, deacons, and possibly lay members. Gradually the practice developed that elders
    41 KB (6,309 words) - 14:08, 31 December 2018
  • comparatively large Anabaptist congregation in 1568 with preachers and deacons. After the Thirty Years' War the congregation was united with Gerolsheim
    6 KB (944 words) - 23:28, 15 January 2017
  • Anabaptists in the selection of church officials (elders, bishops, preachers, deacons), and although the lot is not mentioned in any Mennonite confessions of
    6 KB (1,069 words) - 22:58, 15 January 2017
  • Orlofferfelde), Otto Jochem (1941 Fürstenwerder), Reinhard Fast (1952 El Ombu); deacons, Johannes Wiebe (1933 Heubuden), Heinz Dyck (1952 El Ombu). The crops in
    3 KB (457 words) - 14:00, 23 August 2013
  • 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 escape
    7 KB (1,021 words) - 17:22, 23 January 2014
  • Mennonite church officials, Funk a bishop, Kolb a preacher, and Meyer and Reiff deacons. Services were conducted exclusively in German for almost two centuries
    4 KB (399 words) - 12:28, 15 July 2020

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