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  • 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;
    1 KB (209 words) - 11:44, 6 March 2021
  • 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
  • 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

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