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• Ghent (Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium)
  or 129 persons here. The congregation of Ghent had its own preachers and deacons, but no elder of its own. That they desperately wanted one is shown by a
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• Mennonite Conference of Ontario and Quebec
  years the conference session was a gathering of bishops, ministers, and deacons. It was the practice to hold communion at the place of conference on the
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• Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference (MC)
  of 11,109 members, 78 congregations, 26 bishops, 109 ministers, and 96 deacons. The membership as reported in the 1958 Mennonite Yearbook was 65 organized
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• Amsterdam (Noord-Holland, Netherlands)
  district committee. The work of the deacons in the district was looked after by one of the 20 supervisors (opzieners) and deacons, who also had charge of the administration
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• Ordination
  of hands for deacons, and by 1665 also for preachers and deacons. But that time the Lamists had also abolished the ordination of deacons. In the 19th century
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• Church of God in Christ, Mennonite (CGC)
  with a baptized membership of about 4,500, including 88 ministers and 62 deacons. The church had mission stations in Mexico and New Mexico with three ordained
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• Leeuwarden (Friesland, Netherlands)
  Frisian-Flemish schism in 1566-1567. About 1560 the elders, preachers, and deacons of four congregations (Leeuwarden, Dokkum, Franeker, and Harlingen), without
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• Zonists
  quarrels ended in a schism, Samuel Apostool with some other preachers and deacons and about 500 of the 2,000 members separating from the main body on 22 June
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• Heubuden (Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)
  Peter Braun. Preachers to be chosen were first called as deacons. From the ranks of the deacons the preachers were then chosen in the second stage of the
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• Conservative Mennonite Church of Ontario
  bishops; Moses Baer and Elmer Grove, ministers; Andrew Axt and Clarence Huber, deacons; with their followers, held their first separate church service on 22 November
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• Ontario (Canada)
  membership dwindled. In 1875 another division took place. Four ministers, three deacons, and several hundred members withdrew and at a conference at Bloomingdale
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• Verband deutscher Mennonitengemeinden (Federation of Mennonite Churches)
  serving the 15 congregations, besides 7 deacons, in 1915; but in 1951, 29 elders, 26 preachers, and 12 deacons served 18 congregations. Most of the increase
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• Haarlem (Noord-Holland, Netherlands)
  board of deacons consisting of 12 members who were also members of the "Serving Council." The preachers could not belong to the board of deacons. The deacons
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• Montgomery County (Pennsylvania, USA)
  the alms books of the Skippack and Franconia congregations, kept by the deacons since 1738 and 1767 respectively. Montgomery County was the home of the
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• Ladekopp (Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)
  parts, Ladekopp became the Orloff Quarter. They had their own preachers and deacons, but the elder served all four quarters. The Naamlijst of 1743 names as
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• Iowa-Nebraska Mennonite Conference (Mennonite Church)
  bishops 7; ministers 29; deacons 13. The 1955 report listed the membership as being 4,386; bishops 12; ministers 36; deacons 16. J. D. Graber and wife
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• Evangelical Mennonite Conference (Kleine Gemeinde)
  further divided in 1869 when Friesen excommunicated two ministers and two deacons. These excommunicated men formed the nucleus of another Kleine Gemeinde
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• Deacon
  poor, but the deacons, if they should have the gift of speaking, should also preach, while the preachers should be chosen from among the deacons. Thus by 1568
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• Waterlanders
  dienst" (elders) and "vermaners" (preachers) as well as "armendienaers" (deacons), but by 1581 it was usual for the elders and often the preachers to be
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• Eastern District Conference (Mennonite Church USA)
  ministers, 11 deacons, and 16 congregations, totaling about 500 members, or one fourth of the Franconia Conference. Of the 70 ministers and deacons in the Franconia
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• Southeastern Mennonite Conference
  ministerial body numbering 54 members (5 bishops, 32 ministers, and 18 deacons). In 1995 the South Atlantic Mennonite Conference was formed from the Georgia-Carolina
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• Evangelical Mennonite Society
  been added, and three deacons. In 1879 at the time of the merger there were nine congregations, nine ministers, and six deacons. After Upper Milford the
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• Amsterdam Mennonite Theological Seminary (Kweekschool)
  it, considering scholarly learning superfluous for a preacher. Then the deacons of the Amsterdam Lamist and Toren congregation passed a resolution in 1680
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• Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference (Mennonite Church USA)
  related mostly to the year by year problems which the bishops, preachers, and deacons faced, such as whether Mennonites ought to vote in political elections,
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• Deaconess
  Barclay reports that the Amsterdam congregation had a deaconess and three deacons, all about 60 years old. "She visited the sick and the feeble, especially
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• Mennonite Brethren Church
  discontinued) and was assisted by other ministers and by deacons. Ministers as well as deacons were elected from the ranks of the congregation by ballot
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• Virginia Mennonite Conference (Mennonite Church USA)
  the conference. Then there were testimonies from all the ministers and deacons. Following this the regular business of the conference was considered. A
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• Mennonite Church in India
  additional 50 members or fraction thereof. The church ordained four Indian deacons in 1913, and the first Indian minister was ordained on 30 April 1927. In
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• Leiden (Zuid-Holland, Netherlands)
  Dutch language. There is a nearly complete list of elders, preachers, and deacons of the Leiden Waterlander congregation from 1613. Figures about the number
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• Zwolle (Overijssel, Netherlands)
  there was also the Schirnmelpenninck family, many of whose members were deacons. The small congregation of Zwolle in 1672 contributed 414 Dutch guilders
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• Mennonite Church British Columbia
  integral part. The youth organization, Women in Mission, and the Ministers and Deacons conference have played a vital role in the life of the Conference. In 1976
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• Rotterdam (Zuid-Holland, Netherlands)
  which nonetheless died out around the turn of the century. In 1632 the deacons Balten Centen Schoenmaker and Michiel Michielsz signed the Dordrecht Confession
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• Austerlitz (Jihomoravský kraj, Czech Republic)
  without compulsion or urging for the support of the needy." At the same time deacons (Brüder der Notdurft) were ordained. The Lord of Liechtenstein pursued them
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• Zutphen (Gelderland, Netherlands)
  owes much, both spiritually and materially; many of its members served as deacons. In recent years the meetinghouse has also been used by Remonstrant and
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• Ontario Mennonite Brethren in Christ
  Moses Erb (the last two soon returned to their former loyalty) and Waterloo deacons William Hembling and Joseph S. Schneider. In the Markham district ministers
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• Kansas-Nebraska Mennonite Conference (Mennonite Church)
  ministers, and 8 deacons. By 1909 the reported membership had increased to 949, and in 1920 to 1,204 with 6 bishops, 30 ministers, and 16 deacons. The redistricting
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• Chortitza Mennonite Church (Chortitza, Chortitza Mennonite Settlement, Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine)
  body (Lehrdienst or Kirchenkonvent), composed of elder, ministers, and deacons, was the governing body of the large congregation. In the matters pertaining
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• Schiedam (Zuid-Holland, Netherlands)
  Rotterdam, Amsterdam, and Haarlem, served the church as deacons; viz., Lubbert Wolfertsz van Vollenhoven, deacon of the Flemish church from 1630, Anthony van Vollenhoven
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• Tiegenhagen (Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)
  Hamm. The congregation was served by an elder, five preachers, and two deacons. The membership remained rather constant throughout the last century. In
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• Indiana-Michigan Amish Mennonite Conference
  reported 11 congregations, 1,539 members, 5 bishops, 13 ministers, and 9 deacons; the Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference, 1,728 members (counting the
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• Elder (Ältester)
  ordains ministers and deacons, administers baptism, serves communion, presides over membership meetings and meetings of ministers and deacons, and provides general
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• Warns (Friesland, Netherlands)
  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
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• Gouda (Zuid-Holland, Netherlands)
  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
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• Gronau Mennonite Church (Gronau, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany)
  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
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• Goes (Zeeland, Netherlands)
  municipal government of Goes compelled the preachers, the precentor, and the deacons of the Mennonite Church to sign 12 articles (see Geuzenvragen), in which
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• Tennessee (USA)
  Creek, Ohio, numbered 61 members in 1958, with three ministers and two deacons. -- John S. Umble In 1988 there were congregations representing six different
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• Ontario Amish Mennonite Conference (Mennonite Church)
  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
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• Fürstenwerder (Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)
  1912), Johannes Dyck (1919), Ernst Dyck (1928), Heinrich Wall (1934); the deacons were Gustav Wiens (1923) and Gustav Schulz (1928). Jakob Jantzen died an
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• Winterswijk (Gelderland, Netherlands)
  The mem­bers live at Winterswijk and surrounding towns. Until 1786 the deacons, sometimes called directors, always two, were chosen from the married men
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• Coffman, Samuel Frederick (1872-1954)
  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
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• Oranjeappel, De (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
  an agreement was made between the governors of the Oranjeappel and the deacons of the Amsterdam Mennonite congregation. Henceforth, the foundation of the
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• Walcheren (Zeeland, Netherlands)
  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
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• Kronsweide Mennonite Church (Kronsweide, Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine)
  the congregation had five ministers, four ministerial candidates, four deacons, in addition to the Elder Johann Martens. The majority of them had a secondary
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• Huron County (Ontario, Canada)
  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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• Communion
  performed the function of administering the Lord's Supper but also ministers, deacons, and possibly lay members. Gradually the practice developed that elders
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• Obersülzen (Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany)
  comparatively large Anabaptist congregation in 1568 with preachers and deacons. After the Thirty Years' War the congregation was united with Gerolsheim
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• Lot
  Anabaptists in the selection of church officials (elders, bishops, preachers, deacons), and although the lot is not mentioned in any Mennonite confessions of
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• El Ombu (Departamento de Río Negro, Uruguay)
  Orlofferfelde), Otto Jochem (1941 Fürstenwerder), Reinhard Fast (1952 El Ombu); deacons, Johannes Wiebe (1933 Heubuden), Heinz Dyck (1952 El Ombu). The crops in
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• Patriots and Mennonites in the Netherlands
  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
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• Salford Mennonite Church (Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA)
  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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• Concept of Cologne (Anabaptists, 1591)
  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
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• Hamburg-Altona Mennonite Church (Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Germany)
  been a deacon. Hamburg also had deaconesses, though on a voluntary, unorganized basis. The church council was composed of preachers and deacons. The most
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• Reforming Mennonite Society (Ontario, Canada & Indiana, USA)
  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
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• Kleine Gemeinde
  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
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• Blenheim Mennonite Church (New Dundee, Ontario, Canada)
  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
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• Middelburg (Zeeland, Netherlands)
  Jan van Son, Matthys Hermansz, and Aert Conincx, apparently preachers or deacons of the congregation), was unable to do anything for the oppressed Mennonites
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• Jisp (Noord-Holland, Netherlands)
  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
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• Rijper Sociëteit (Noord-Holland, Netherlands)
  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
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• Reinlander Mennoniten Gemeinde (Manitoba)
  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
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• Christian Mennonite Conference
  the congregations. Elections and ordinations (for life) of ministers and deacons were his responsibility. The ministers continued to itinerate in the Manitoba
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• Bluffton (Ohio, USA)
  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
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• Ohio Mennonite Conference (1843-1927)
  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
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• West Abbotsford Mennonite Church (Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada)
  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
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• Montezuma Church of God in Christ, Mennonite Church (Montezuma, Kansas, USA)
  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
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• Eibenschitz (Jihomoravský kraj, Czech Republic)
  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
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• Yarrow United Mennonite Church (Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada)
  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
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• West Prussia
  Barbier of Emden and Michel Janszoon of Oisterhout, Brabant, served as deacons in the Danzig congregation. Apparently the only Anabaptist congregation
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• Evangelical Mennonite Mission Conference (EMMC)
  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
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• Dompelaars
  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
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• Oak Grove Mennonite Church (Smithville, Wayne County, Ohio, USA)
  Christian Brandt, Christian Naftzinger, Peter Blough, Solomon Zook, and deacons Jacob King and Jacob Troyer. By the 1840's the Oak Grove congregation had
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• West Point Mennonite Church (Lee County, Iowa, USA)
  John C. Krehbiel, who died in 1886, was the last preacher, but one of the deacons, Henry Weber, conducted services by reading sermons for perhaps 10 years
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• Pieterzijl (Groningen, Netherlands)
  Among the members the de Waard family were numerous; many of them were deacons and Jacob Symons and his son Jan Jacobs de Waard, both farmers, were preachers
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• Cologne (Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany)
  "albus" (Rembert, 509, note 3). The care of the poor was in charge of the deacons. In receiving members by baptism they acted with great caution. Scarcely
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• Corn Mennonite Brethren Church (Corn, Oklahoma, USA)
  the last three salaried. With them served 21 associate ministers and 15 deacons. Twenty-eight missionaries went to the foreign field by 1954. In 1954 the
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• Faith Mennonite Church (Newton, Kansas, USA)
  board of deacons of the First Mennonite Church, which took the lead in forming the new congregation, met in joint session with the board of deacons of the
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• Friedelsheim (Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany)
  Hans Schanz of Gönnheim and Hans Jakob Schneider (of Friedelsheim?); the deacons were Christian Herschi and Hans Berber, the former for Friedelsheim, the
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• Cramer, Samuel (1842-1913)
  of some rural congregation produced some displeasure on the part of the deacons. But he won their hearts by his frank acknowledgment that he had erred.
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• Countryside Mennonite Fellowship (Hawkesville, Ontario, Canada)
  included Bishop Ronald Shantz, Ministers Glen Jantzi and Kevin Martin, and Deacons Wendell Glick and Ibra G. Martin. Countryside Mennonite Fellowship Church
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• Neustadtgödens (Niedersachsen, Germany)
  Neustadtgödens was the Cremer (Kremer, Cramer, Kramer) family, many of whom were deacons and preachers in the local congregation. Neustadtgödens was the home of
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• Illinois Mennonite Conference (Mennonite Church USA)
  the winter months. Regularly ordained or licensed bishops, ministers, and deacons were considered members of conference and transacted the business of conference
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• Galenus Abrahamsz de Haan (1622-1706)
  with the latter, the suspicion remained. A meeting of the ministers and deacons of the Lamist congregation became necessary. Before this meeting took place
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• County Line Mennonite Church (Dalton, Ohio, USA)
  and David VanPelt, Ministers Elvin Neuenschwander and Ernest Steiner, and Deacons Clarence Eberly and David Steiner. Mennonite Church Directory 2014. Harrisonburg
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• Emmanuel Mennonite Church (Meade, Kansas, USA)
  Harms, served an average congregation of 230, the membership being 210. The deacons assisting the pastor were George J. Rempel and Peter L. Classen. In 2008
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• Nespitzer, Georg (16th century)
  the poverty that overtook the refugee Brethren in Augsburg by appointing deacons. These were Georg Schachner of Munich, Augustin Bader, and two who later
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• Colmar (Haut-Rhin, Alsace, France)
  Magenheim, Hans Ringer of Heidolsheim, Rudolf Egli of Künheim, and the deacons Ulrich Husser and Jakob Gachnauer of Ohnenheim, and Heinrich Frick of Künheim
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• Stauffer, Elam (1899-1981)
  generation of leaders to assume responsibility. Having ordained 18 pastors and deacons, he took steps to call the first Tanzanian bishop. After his retirement
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• Cassel Mennonite Church (Tavistock, Ontario, Canada)
  of Bishop Daniel Iutzi, ministers Jacob R. Bender and Menno Kipfer, and deacons Dan Wagler and David Swartzentruber. The preaching switched from German
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• Lennep, van, family
  his grandson Aernout van Lennep (1658-1728), a son of Jacob, were both deacons of the Amsterdam Mennonite Lamen-Toren congregation. Both were silk merchants
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• Jordan (Ontario, Canada)
  ordained in 1871, and Daniel Honsberger (1835-1914), ordained in 1875. Early deacons were Christian Honsberger (1781-1831) and Philip Wismer (1810-1897). See
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• Ministers' Manuals
  the Lord's Supper, Christian doctrines, the election and installation of deacons, ministers, and elders, the marriage ceremony, excommunication, reception
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• Ober-Flörsheim (Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany)
  congregation numbered 13 families; the preacher was Christian Weber, the deacons Johann Dahlem and Heinrich Rupp; the latter lived in Gundersheim. Members
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• North Central Conference of the Mennonite Church
  congregations and 12 mission outposts, with 4 bishops, 20 ministers and 4 deacons. The district annually sponsored a winter Bible school and a fall mission
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• Wormerveer (Noord-Holland, Netherlands)
  rather well-to-do businessmen, and which was led by capable ministers and deacons, grew more progressive and more liberal than the North church, though no
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• Leidsche Synode
  sometimes used for a meeting of Flemish Mennonite elders, preachers, and deacons held 18-23 June 1660, at Leiden, Dutch province of South Holland. Of this
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• Veere (Zeeland, Netherlands)
  preacher in 1614 and Adriaen Vervondel and Maerten Roelants preachers or deacons in 1665. It belonged to the Flemish branch and died out shortly after 1671
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• Verbondt van Eenigheydt
  churches made at Utrecht on 9 September 1664, and ratified by 98 ministers and deacons, representing 28 churches in a meeting held at Leiden, 1 and 2 October 1664
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• Emmaus Mennonite Church (Whitewater, Kansas, USA)
  At present a song leader (see Chorister) is elected annually. The first deacons were elected in 1917. These together with the ministers constituted the
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• LMC: a Fellowship of Anabaptist Churches
  assisted by 20 ministers and 10 deacons. The total membership in 1954 was 15,166, with 23 bishops, 193 ministers, and 102 deacons. The Spring Conference in 1871
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• Cedar Grove Mennonite Church (Markham, Ontario, Canada)
  ministry in 1912. Here Samuel G. Reesor, a deacon, expired in the pulpit while at prayer on 10 August 1913. Other deacons who served at this place were Jacob
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• Unruh (Unru, Unrau, Onrouw) family
  Halbstadt Mennonite Church, Molotschna, Russia. A number of Unruhs served as deacons and preachers in the Prussian churches. Preachers at Montau have been Andreas
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• Huizinga (Huysinga, Huisinga) family
  to the Groningen Old Flemish branch. Many of them served the church as deacons and preachers or elders. Jacob Derks (1560-1620, a son of Derk Pieters)
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• Netherlands
  conferences consisted of preachers and deacons, the Rijper Societeit held two meetings, one for the preachers and one for the deacons. The former was discontinued
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• Ouwejan, Jacob (1706-1781)
  Holland, where they were mostly engaged in shipbuilding. Some of them were deacons in the United Mennonite congregation in the "Nieuwe Huys" of West Zaandam
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• Teyler van der Hulst, Pieter (1702-1778)
  Mennonite Conference, Teyler in opposition to the views of his Haarlem co-deacons, promoted this conference ardently but vainly, for the Algemeene Doopsgezinde
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• Fretz, Allen M. (1853-1943)
  Campden, Ontario. They were the parents of six children, two of whom are deacons—Jacob R. Fretz at the Lansdale Mennonite Church (General Conference Mennonite)
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• Eden Mennonite Church (Moundridge, Kansas, USA)
  not allowed to attend or vote at annual meetings. In October 1951, the deacons agreed to call a meeting “to work out the proposed change of the constitution
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• First Mennonite Church (Halstead, Kansas, USA)
  constitution was drafted, and a decision reached to elect a minister and deacons and to celebrate the Lord's Supper on Easter Sunday, 28 March 1875; Valentine
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• Blumenort Mennonite Church (Manitoba, Canada)
  remained seated and then ate together. The cup was handed by the elder to the deacons, or preachers, who took it to the members, who then passed it around until
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• Vineland United Mennonite Church (Vineland, Ontario, Canada)
  Until 1956 the congregation had only one deacon, but as the congregation grew and needs increased more deacons were elected and ordained. Kathy Paetkau
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• Willemsz, Jan (1583-1660)
  Willemsz' Grondich Ondersoeck, in which he attacked the practice of ordaining deacons with the laying on of hands. Doopsgezinde Bijdragen (1917): 30-32. Kühler
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• Roth, Moses H. (1898-1978)
  with Curtis Cressman (bishop), preachers Elmer Grove and Moses Baer, and deacons Andrew Axt and Clarence Huber withdrew from Ontario Conference and organized
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• Hawkesville Mennonite Church (Hawkesville, Ontario, Canada)
  chosen by lot for the office of deacon, a position he held until his death in 1977. He was one of the last active deacons in the Mennonite Conference of
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• Martin, Abraham W. (1834-1902)
  the contentious issues. In the 1870s he called a meeting of ministers and deacons at his home to discuss disputed issues within the Mennonite Conference of
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• Elbing (Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland)
  congregation of Elbing-Ellerwald, with a jointly chosen elder, preachers, and deacons. This is demonstrable back as far as 1606. An old record says, "In 1606
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• Peters (Pieters) Family
  probably of Dutch-Frisian descent. Many members of this family served as deacons and preachers in various West Prussian Mennonite congregations, especially
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• Garden Community Church (Hesston, Kansas, USA)
  plot for the church, which was dedicated on 9 September 1888. The first deacons were Jacob Vogt, Sr., D. T. Eyman, and John Dettweiler. Among the early
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• Willink family
  the Willinks were most­ly members and often deacons of the Lamist congregation; the first of these deacons was the merchant Gerrit Willink (1618-79), serving
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• De Rijp (Noord-Holland, Netherlands)
  partly also the execution of this task. A complete list of preachers and deacons from 1557 to the present has been preserved. The first minister of De Rijp
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• Millwood Mennonite Church (Gap, Pennsylvania, USA)
  ordained bishop in 1949, were serving as bishops in 1955. Ministers and deacons that have formerly served were Samuel Lantz, John M. Stoltzfus, Daniel Stoltzfus
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• Pausram (Moravia, Czech Republic)
  because of his benevolence toward them. In Pausram occurred the death of the deacons Noah Weiss, 30 March 1606; Hans Summer, 23 September 1611; and exactly two
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• Iutzi, Daniel S. (1873-1960)
  the ordination of deacons, nominations were taken from the brotherhood and usually the lot was used for the final selection. The deacons were often promoted
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• Rosedale Network of Churches
  two in Iowa, and one in Kansas. Fourteen bishops, 42 ministers, and 8 deacons served in these congregations. -- Ivan J. Miller The Conservative Mennonite
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• Associação das Igrejas Irmãos Menonitas do Brasil
  are held annually. Membership in 1987 was 1,954, with 49 ministers, 49 deacons, 71 youth workers, 154 Sunday school teachers, and 364 choir members. Mission
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• Bader, Augustin (d. 1530)
  the new church a constitution, and helped them elect two leaders and two deacons. But the intervention of the city council brought the organization to a
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• Hylkema family
  congregation, in Friesland 1759-ca. 1803. Some of his descendants were deacons at Akkrum (near Oldeboorn). The following members of this family went into
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• Old Order River Brethren
  preachers received no formal training. A bishop, two ministers, and one or two deacons were the traditional body of ordained men for each congregation. The English
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• Olivet Church (Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada)
  early Sunday morning worship service. The Church Board consisted of the deacons, an elected executive and the department heads. The 1990s into the 2000s
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• Calton Conservative Mennonite Church (Aylmer, Ontario, Canada)
  ministerial team included Bishop Steven Martin, Minister Johan Bergen, and Deacons John Harder and Jacob Martens. The language of worship is English. Directory
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• Fretz, Joseph Winfield (1910-2005)
  in Canada, and Winfield served actively as a lay leader on the Board of Deacons and the Missions Committee. His innovation continued as a founding board
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• Clarence Center-Akron Mennonite Church (Akron, New York, USA)
  became bishop in 1839. His son Frederick and Abraham Leib were ordained deacons with the growth of the congregation. They soon built a stone church (no
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• Eben-Ezer Mennonite Church (Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada)
  secretary came much later. Much of the care-giving was entrusted to the deacons who were elected for an open-ended term, and to the lay ministers who joined
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• Warnaars family
  some were wholesale dealers. Many of them served the church of Almelo as deacons, and Gerrit Warnaars (1663-ca. 1728) was a lay preacher, serving at Almelo
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• Namensverzeichnis (Yearbooks and Church Directories)
  settlements of the Russian Empire; and the names of the elders, preachers, and deacons, with the towns or districts where they reside, in order that this book
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• Almosenpfleger
  unsalaried deacon, who is elected from the membership. Besides this, the poor fund of the Gemeindeverband is in the care of one of the deacons; this fund
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• Kratz, Valentine (ca. 1760-ca. 1824)
  Mennonites in Pennsylvania to send leaders  who could ordain ministers and deacons from the small group in Canada. In September 1801 six ministers replied
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• Lapp (Lappe, Lape, Lap) family
  churches in America. Other descendants of this first settler include two deacons of the Line Lexington congregation, Abraham (1777-1855) and Henry B. (1853-1931) ;
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• Hooghveldt, Robbert van (17th century)
  Aldendorp, Arent van Heuven, Johan (Jan) Andries van Aken, and a number of deacons, who took a more moderate view. The troubles led to the excommunication
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• Old Colony Mennonite Church of Manitoba
  bishop, who is the head of the church, the ministers, and the deacon. The ministers and deacons are elected from the men of the church, and the bishop is elected
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• Meersch, van der, family
  married to Sara de Veer of Amsterdam, and some of this family served as deacons at Amsterdam. Abraham van der Meersch, probably belonging to the same family
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• Goor (Overijssel, Netherlands)
  Goor apparently was a part of the Twenthe congregation. Prominent members (deacons?) at Goor in 1610 were Arend ten Cate, Andries Ollenvanger, Hindrik Willemsen
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• Vlissingen (Zeeland, Netherlands)
  was used until 1889. In 1632 the preacher Oillaert Willeboorts and the deacons Per Jacob Pennen (the name obviously mutilated) and Lieven Marijnsz signed
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• Brons, Bernhard, Jr. (1831-1911) (category Deacons)
  career in the field of business as well as congregational affairs. He was deacon of the Emden church from 1872 until the end of his life. He played a prominent
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• St. John Bible Church (Pandora, Ohio, USA)
  1923 and selected John Schneck, Amos Hilty, and E. D. Kohli as its first deacons, while A. C. Diller, C. C. Steiner, and Menno Schumacher served as the first
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• Bontrager (Bontreger, Borntrager, Bornträger, Borntreger, Borntraeger) family
  (1811-1908), who was a deacon in Elkhart County, Indiana. Of his sons, two were chosen bishops, one a minister, and two deacons. A grandson, Bishop Eli
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• Nafziger, Johannes (b. ca. 1706)
  ceremonies of baptism, marriage, choice and ordination of preachers and deacons as he practiced them. This letter appears to have become a sort of ministers'
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• Konferenz der Mennoniten der Schweiz (Alttäufer) = Conférence Mennonite Suisse (Anabaptiste)
  (Emmental). The conferences were usually attended by elders, preachers, and deacons for consultation and deliberation on church matters, with lay representatives
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• Paschen (Paaschen, Paessen) family
  moved to Winterswijk about 1762, where many of their descendants served as deacons of the Mennonite congregation until recent times. By marriage the Paschens
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• Gorter, Simon (1778-1862)
  congregation, which he served many years as deacon and treasurer. The sons of Douwe Gorter were also deacons at Zijldijk. Doopsgezinde Bijdragen (1864):
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• New Reinland Mennonite Church of Ontario
  J. "Willie" Thiessen, Pastors were Randy Thiessen and Jake Friesen, and Deacons were John Wolf and Bill Thiessen. See also Zion Mennonite Church. Mennonite
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• Blooming Glen Mennonite Church (Blooming Glen, Pennsylvania, USA)
  1953). David F. Derstine, Jr., was ordained as pastor in October 1951. Two deacons, Norman Moyer, ordained in 1921, and Franklin Alderfer, ordained in 1938
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• Friesen, Nickolai N. (1901-1995)
  served as chairman of Canadian Mennonite Pastors, chair of the Conference of Deacons, chair of the British Columbia Mennonite Conference in the late 1950s and
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• Bethany Mennonite Church (Quakertown, Pennsylvania, USA)
  Rosenberger, 1930-1934; A. J. Neuenschwander, 1939-1949 and Wilmer B. Denlinger. Deacons and their terms of service were U. S. Stauffer, 1899-1936; Daniel W. Landis
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• Martyrs' Synod
  three days before this at the house of Gall Fischer, a weaver, one of the deacons of the Augsburg Anabaptist congregation. In these two meetings both Denck
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• Bharatiya General Conference Mennonite Kalisiya
  became the administrative body and was composed of all ordained elders, deacons, and one missionary. The need for the Sammelan ended when the Hindustani
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• Conestoga Mennonite Meetinghouse (St. Jacobs, Ontario, Canada)
  in the rubbers in the church. He kept the keys." As a result, Old Order Deacons Levi P. Martin, David Cressman, and Menno Shantz purchased 0.75 hectares
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• Rheydt (Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany)
  families, others of whom had married into Rheydt, or had immigrated. The deacons (Armenpfleger) mentioned in the court records of Rheydt in 1646-48 were
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• Clemens (Clemons, Clemmens, Cleman, Clementz) family
  far the largest number has been concentrated in Montgomery County. Four deacons named Clemens served the Mennonite churches in the Waterloo Township, Ontario
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• Oosterbaan family
  descendants too were usually merchants, many of them also serving the church as deacons. The family name of Oosterbaan does not appear before the end of the 17th
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• Halsey Mennonite Church (Halsey, Oregon, USA)
  Bishop Stephen A. Zehr, Ministers Jason B. Schrock and Leland Zehr, and Deacons Gerald L. Birky and Daniel J. Weaver. The church had 151 members. Mennonite
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• Post Oak Mennonite Brethren Church (Indiahoma, Oklahoma, USA)
  George Koweno, Deacon Urheyah, Shelby Tenequer, and Ruben Tabbytosavita, all four of whom have died. Those specially active today are the deacons Felix Koweno
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• Ministry (Netherlands)
  from the deacons and had to supervise the finances of the congregation. Deacons were chosen from the male membership. Until about 1685 deacons were usually
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• Emden (Niedersachsen, Germany)
  with the elders and their work in the churches, 8-15 with preachers and deacons, and 16-20 with the bearing of arms, working for the churches, and marriage
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• Marienburger Werder (Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)
  and Fürstenwerder (Barwalde). Each division had its own preachers and deacons; one elder served all. In the Klein-Werder the Thiensdorf congregation was
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• Neutäufer (Gemeinschaft Evangelisch Taufgesinnter)
  at that time nearly 70 years old. At a meeting of all the ministers and deacons Fröhlich presented his beliefs. Gerber and several others, like Christian
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• Pequea Amish Mennonite Church (Narvon, Pennsylvania, USA)
  Stoltzfus and Jonathan S. Stoltzfus, the Minister was John E. Glick, and the Deacons were Floyd Stoltzfus and Melvin S. Zook. Anderson, Cory. The Amish-Mennonites
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• Roosen family
  following century two of Gerrit's grandsons, Berend and Salomon Roosen, were deacons in the Altona congregation. Berend Roosen (1705-1788), married to Elisabeth
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• Lepp, Aron (1827-1913)
  Einlage congregation. He participated in the commissioning of ministers, deacons, and elders, he traveled extensively as one of five Mennonite Brethren Reiseprediger
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• Delden, van, family
  and many of them did much for the church, several serving the church as deacons. Mennonite preachers of this family were: Steven (Berents) van Delden (1672-1757)
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• Goot, van der, family
  (1771-1840), both butter merchants like their father and grandfather, and both deacons of the Akkrum congregation. (5) Sine Hiddes van der Goot (1799-1889), son
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• Sloten (Friesland, Netherlands)
  members (there were 47 members who did not receive financial support from the deacons). In the Naamlijst of 1731 it is called Sloten and Lemmer, but this is not
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• Daele, van, family
  province of Zeeland. They were engaged in farming, and some of them were deacons of the church. Bardiolomeus van Daele (van Dale), a farmer, moved from Etichinenear
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• Steinabrunn (Niederösterreich, Austria)
  chose Mathes Legeder, Gutenhenn Hans, Michel Blauer, and Michel Kramer as deacons. On 16 December 1539 the brotherhood met to discuss the question of union
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• Meridian Church of God in Christ Mennonite Church (Hesston, Kansas, USA)
  replaced in 1953 by a new church, capacity 450. Nine ministers and four deacons have been ordained by the congregation, of whom the following are serving
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• Miller Mennonite Church (Leitersburg, Maryland, USA)
  Ministers Shelley W. Graybill, Ronald L. Hostetter, and Stephen L. Martin and Deacons J. Norman Diller and Nathan H. Diller. Membership was 197. Mennonite Church
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• Ruisdael, van, family
  Church at Haarlem, signed by the preacher Koenraad van Diepenbroek and the deacons Adriaen van den . . . (illegible) and Mattheus Gryspeert. Jacob van Ruisdael
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• Huebert, Gerhard D. (1906-1981)
  material for 27 years, and he was a member of the Manitoba Ministers and Deacons Committee for 15 years. With his health deteriorating, Gerhard was admitted
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• Fellowship of Evangelical Churches
  testimony for all the members and preaching by the minister, or by the deacons in the absence of the ministers, and sometimes in their presence. There
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• Oberholtzer (Overholtzer, Overholser, Overholt) family
  preachers, three deacons, and a bishop, Isaac Oberholtzer (1815-1887) of the Blooming Glen congregation. The Ontario Conference (MC) included a deacon and a preacher
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• Fretz (Frätz, Fraetz) family
  in 1800, where he was ordained a deacon in the Moyer congregation in Vineland in 1801. A number of ministers and deacons named Fretz have served in the Franconia
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• Mol family
  former Dutch Mennonite family, many of whose members served the church as deacons and preachers. An important branch of this family lived at Jisp, province
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• Kops family
  they often were deacons and trustees of the Mennonite orphanages, and in Amsterdam, where they also served the congregation as deacons. In Amsterdam most
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• Teyler family
  some were Lamists . Both in Haarlem and Amsterdam a number of Teylers were deacons. Mennonite church records of Haarlem and Amsterdam. Overmeer, W. P. J. Teyler
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• Cate, ten, family
  members of the ten Cate family too. All these men must have been preachers or deacons of the Mennonite Church. In the baptismal books of all four congregations
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• Orloff Evangelical Mennonite Church (Orloff, Zagradovka Colony, South Russia)
  Mennonite Church, withdrew from the congregation with 11 ministers and 2 deacons. They believed that in the practice of baptism, communion and discipline
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• Roeselare (West-Vlaanderen, Belgium)
  much is known. There was a congregation here in 1545, for in that year its deacons signed a letter written by Adriaen van Kortrijk to the Mennonite congregation
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• Leuvenig, Van, family
  usually were cloth merchants. They joined the Amsterdam Zonist congregation. Deacons of this congregation were Sander Hans van Leuvenich 1670-1674, 1682-1686
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• Coolman family
  Old Flemish Elder Uco Walles. Many members of the family have served as deacons, and Fiepke Harms (b. 1690, d. 1759), a farmer of de Meeden, was chosen
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• Messchaert (Messchert) family
  family have served as deacons since 1658. They belonged to the Waterlander congregation. Dirk Jans Messchaert, who had been chosen as deacon with some other
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• Coster family
  and Willink, was very loyal to the congregation; many of them served as deacons. In the 18th century the family is also found in other congregations. At
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• Coaldale Mennonite Brethren Church (Coaldale, Alberta, Canada)
  Willms, H. Kornelsen, and J. J. Unger. At present (1953) 13 ministers and 5 deacons serve the church. The leader is J. J. Siemens and the assistant leader is
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• Nikolaifeld Mennonite Church (Yazykovo Mennonite Settlement, Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine)
  church became independent. He was assisted by five ministers and three deacons, most of whom had a secondary education and had been teaching. On 12 November
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• Bontreger, Eli J. (1868-1958)
  married 197 couples, preached over 2,600 times, ordained 36 ministers and deacons and 15 bishops, and traveled a total of over 520,000 miles by 1953. Not
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• Bavink family
  at Wormer-Jisp 1834-1836 and Purmerend 1836-1873. Many Bavinks served as deacons, particularly at Almelo, Kampen, Emden, and Leer. A side branch of the Bavink
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• Claes Arentsz (17th century)
  infant baptism. At a meeting of conservative Flemish elders, preachers, and deacons held at Leiden in June 1660, and presided over by van Braght, Arentsz was
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• Spring Creek Old Order Mennonite Meetinghouse (Mount Forest, Ontario, Canada)
  congregations have formed (including Cedarview, Westdale, and Riverdale). Deacons and ministers from the Spring Creek congregation have often served at these
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• Pike Mennonite Church (Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA)
  Bishop Nelson R. Showalter, Ministers Ellis Beery and John R. Swartz, and Deacons Luke Heatwole and Wade D. Knicely. Mennonite Church Directory 2014. Harrisonburg
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• Peel Old Order Mennonite Meetinghouse (Wallenstein, Ontario, Canada)
  at 6363 Sloman Road. In 1901 Joshua Bowman sold 1.5 acres of land to the deacons of the Old Order Mennonite Church. The same year a white frame meetinghouse
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• Elkhart County Old Order Mennonite Settlement (Indiana, USA)
  (ordained 2007). The deacons were David R. Zimmerman (ordained 1977) and Raymond M. Martin (ordained 2001). These ministers and deacons alternated every Sunday
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• Oncken, Johann Gerhard (1800-1884)
  and Aron Lepp as minister, and Cornelius Unger and Benjamin Nickel as deacons. Oncken continued his influence upon this group of the Mennonite Brethren
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• Dekker (Decker) family
  another branch was found in Rotterdam, where members of this family were deacons 1742-1883. They were nearly all merchants, mostly wood- or grain-dealers
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• Nieuwenhuis family
  being engaged in textile business and manufacturing; some of them were deacons of the church. By marriage the Nieuwenhuis family in Enschedé was related
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• Gap Mills Mennonite Christian Fellowship (Gap Mills, West Virginia, USA)
  Christian Fellowship. The ministerial team included Bishop William Beiler and Deacons Paul E. Yoder and Marcus Yoder. "Amish Mennonite Churches in West Virginia
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• Enid Mennonite Brethren Church (Enid, Oklahoma, USA)
  A. A. Steinle, A. F. Vogt, and Menno Flaming had served the church as deacons. The 1955 membership was 189. In 1960, after much prayer and deliberation
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• Emmental Mennonite Church (Kanton Bern, Switzerland)
  they were ordained. Preachers and deacons were chosen from the laity; elders from the ranks of preachers and deacons. In 1900 three ministers were chosen
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• Burkeland Mennonite Church (Waynesboro, Georgia, USA)
  The ministerial team included Ministers Austin H. Hege and Tim Groff and Deacons Byard W. Heatwole and Jared Hege. Mennonite Church Directory 2014. Harrisonburg
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• Plad Mennonite Church (Tunas, Missouri, USA)
  Bishop Nathanael Hindal, Ministers Joseph Hursh and Nathan Stauffer, and Deacons Arlin Miller and Kendall Miller. Directory of the Central Region of the
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• McNally, John Kinzel (1822-1913)
  originally from Markham, at Blair itself. Samuel B. Bowman (Bauman) and Deacons Isaac Bergy, Amos Clemens and Jacob Huber were also important co-workers
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• Charlesville Station (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
  report for 1948 listed the following: missionaries, 10; native pastors and deacons, 7; baptisms during the year, 187; church members, 5,238; professed Christians
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• Cremer, Lubbert Jansz (1702-1781)
  particulars (number of members in 1710, 1733, and 1754, names of preachers and deacons, place where he preached—it often was still a private home—and number of
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• Keyser family
  Dirk Pietersz Keyser, while many members of this family served here as deacons. Albert Pieters Keyzer (Keyser) (d. 1731) was preacher of the Frisian congregation
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• North Woolwich Old Order Mennonite Meetinghouse (Floradale, Ontario, Canada)
  since 1941.  The agreement, which is signed by bishops, ministers, and deacons of both groups, was renewed in 1962 and again in 1995.  It stipulates that
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• Wolf, de, family
  congregation and from 1664 sided with the Lamists. Some de Wolffs were deacons of this church. The de Wolffs origin­ally were Mennonites from Antwerp,
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• Chorister (Vorsanger)
  choristers were chosen by secret ballot, just as were the ministers and the deacons, this position was held in high esteem. For this reason it was desired by
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• Nazarenes
  is to take care of the material aspects of church life, secretaries, and deacons who have charge of the care of the poor. On all of these points they are
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• Neufville, de, family
  de Neufville family were loyal Mennonites. Many of its members served as deacons in Amsterdam and Haarlem. To this family also belonged Christina Leonora
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• Calvary Mennonite Fellowship (Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA)
  In 2014 the congregation moved to leadership through teams of Elders and Deacons. Stephen Byler continued leadership as one of the five Elders. Biblical
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• Fontein family
  of this family is found in Franeker, where some Fonteins also served as deacons. Cate, Steven Blaupot ten. Geschiedenis der Doopsgezinden in Friesland.
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• Mennonite Christian Fellowship
  had three churches with a membership of 209, including eight ministers/deacons and two bishops. These fellowship churches held Bible studies, mid-week
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• First Mennonite Church (Summerfield, Illinois, USA)
  John Kraemer. Daniel Baer, Jacob Pletcher, and John Wittmer were elected deacons. A brick church building was erected in 1858-59 in the village of Summerfield
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• Fernheim Evangelical Mennonite Brethren Church (Fernheim Colony, Boquerón Department, Paraguay)
  the interchurch organization. In addition nine other ministers and two deacons also served the congregation. In the 1950s worship services were held twice
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• Emmanuel Fellowship Church (Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, USA)
  Fellowship. The ministerial team included Ministers Keith Sensenig and Deacons Mark L. Rock and Lynn Edward Gayman. Anderson, Cory. The Amish-Mennonites
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• Gospel Light Fellowship (McVeytown, Pennsylvania, USA)
  Bishop Daniel M. Stoltzfus, Ministers John P. Lapp and Samuel J. Peight, and Deacons Steve Hershberger and Vernon Nissley. Anderson, Cory. The Amish-Mennonites
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• Holmes-Wayne-Tuscarawas Counties Old Order Amish Settlement (Ohio, USA)
  bishop, two preachers, and one deacon. In 1955 there were in the 43 congregations, 39 bishops, 80 preachers, and 36 deacons, or a total of 155 ordained men
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• Kola Evangelical Mennonite Church (Kola, Manitoba, Canada)
  and Dave Plett as a deacon. After the Abe Ungers left, Art Neufeld continued serving as the lead minister. Other ministers and deacons were elected in the
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• Morrison Mennonite Church (Morrison, Illinois, USA)
  would mean buying war bonds, the congregation, including ministers and deacons, did so. The congregation closed after Aaron D. Nice retired in 1984. Smith
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• Waliën family
  members of the congregation of Winterswijk, where some of them served as deacons and where shortly after 1600 Mennonite meetings were held in the rear of
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• Ouma, Joshua Okello (1939- )
  them to become servants of God with many of them becoming church elders, deacons, pastors, and bishops. In 1986 Joshua and Debora Ouma moved back home to
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• Brüderliche Vereinigung zwischen uns und etlichen Brüdern am Rheinstrom
  separation from other groups who claim to be brethren, support of ministers and deacons for their secular needs, "idol worship" (meaning the Catholic Mass), the
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• Good's Mennonite Church (Clarence Center, New York, USA)
  became bishop in 1839. His son Frederick and Abraham Leib were ordained deacons with the growth of the congregation. They soon built a stone church a few
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• Église de Dieu en Christ Mennonite, Haiti
  congregations upon approval by the conference body. Leaders, ministers, and deacons are chosen by the local congregations and are financially self-supporting
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• National Socialism (Nazism) (Germany)
  sisters and brothers were taken into the congregation through baptism; and deacons, preachers, and elders were selected and consecrated for their respective
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• Bern (Switzerland)
  cannot be sustained, declared Vlamingh. If they choose their ministers and deacons they do so in conformity with the Scriptures. They hold their services at
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• Hennebo family
  congregations of Leiden, Haarlem, and Amsterdam, where many of them served as deacons. MLA style Zijpp, Nanne van der. "Hennebo family." Global Anabaptist Mennonite
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• Friedrichstadt (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)
  given by Deacon Jan Jelle Schutt (leader 1805-1855) and his son Jelle Jansen Schutt (b. 1802, deacon 1836-1886); and Christian Grosskreutz (deacon-treasurer
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• Stroink family
  Mennonites. Stroinks of Enschedé, Gronau, and Zwolle have served the church as deacons. MLA style Zijpp, Nanne van der. "Stroink family." Global Anabaptist Mennonite
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• Kiss, Holy
  until in some congregations its practice was limited to the ministers and deacons, who observed it at every church service. The (Old) Mennonite Church through
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• Poor, Care of
  large churches had. They appointed deacons to manage funds voluntarily given for that purpose. The first of these deacons were probably those chosen by the
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• Bruinvis family
  of whom served the Mennonite congregation at Alkmaar as deacons. A Pieter Bruynvis was deacon of the Flemish and Waterlander congregation in 1720 and treasurer
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• Mennville Evangelical Mennonite Church (Riverton, Manitoba, Canada)
  till 1973. Leonard Dueck and Milton Friesen were elected as additional deacons in 1967 and 1974, respectively. Additional ministers were elected -- Harry
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• Panman
  Pekela, both in the province of Groningen. Many of the Panman family were deacons of the Mennonite congregations at Veendam, Pekela, and Stadskanaal, and
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• Geauga-Trumbull Counties Old Order Amish Settlement (Ohio, USA)
  larger Geauga County settlement. The entire settlement had 10 bishops, 13 deacons, and 20 ministers. -- John A. Hostetler The Geauga County Old Order Amish
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• Inheritance
  or orally with the deacons, made an arrangement to assign a part of their property to the church, with the condition that the deacons would provide for
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• Indiana (USA)
  later the membership was at least 70 with four ministers and two young deacons, but it soon died out. The Gar Creek settlement in Allen County, eleven
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• Harrisburg Mennonite Church (Harrisburg, Oregon, USA)
  Schrock, Jacob Roth, Levi D. Kropf, Jacob S. Roth, and Noah D. Miller; deacons Peter Neuschwander, Joseph C. Hostetler, John P. Yoder, and Ira J. Headings
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• Wayne County Amish (Ohio, USA)
  north, one south of Orrville. Eleven bishops, thirty ministers, and ten deacons served the fourteen Wayne County Amish districts. See also Holmes-Wayne-Tuscarawas
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• Bruges (West-Vlaanderen, Belgium)
  his entire family was arrested in 1563 in Lille, where his father Jan was deacon; he died at the stake with his wife and four sons. The most important of
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• Farmington Mennonite Church (Farmington, New Mexico, USA)
  ministerial team included Bishop Rodney Witmer, Minister Aden S. Gingerich, and Deacons Paul N. Kaufman and Zacchaeus Zimmerman. Mennonite Church Directory 2014
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• Swatara Mennonite Church (Myerstown, Pennsylvania, USA)
  Bishop Duane L. Witmer, Ministers Anthony H. Good and Darvin Weaver, and Deacons Brendon D. Martin and Ira L. Mast. Mennonite Church Directory 2014. Harrisonburg
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• Leola Mennonite Church (Leola, Pennsylvania, USA)
  team included Bishop Sherwin M. Weaver, Minister Sherwin Brougher, and Deacons Leon M. Martin and Marlin D. Rosenberry. Mennonite Church Directory 2014
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• Froese, Jacob J. (1885-1968)
  at 200 funerals, conducted 94 marriages, and ordained 20 ministers, six deacons and two bishops, namely his successor in Manitoba and a Hutterite bishop
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• Grace Mennonite Church (Pandora, Ohio, USA)
  elected Peter P. Steiner, Peter B. Hilty, and Christian P. Schumacher as deacons and Albert Schütz, Philip Neuenschwander, and Peter A. Amstutz as trustees
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• Garthland Rosenort Mennonite Church (Wingard, Saskatchewan, Canada)
  Rosenort Church Gemeinde and was part of both the Saskatchewan Ministers and Deacons Conference that later became the Conference of Mennonites of Saskatchewan
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• Ibandla Labazalwane Kukristu e-Zimbabwe
  the first three African overseers were appointed in 1921, and the first deacons were elected in 1922. In addition to the Matopo Training Institute, the
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• Oosterwijk, van, family
  in both the Lamist and Zonist congregations, a number of them serving as deacons. A lateral branch of this family was the well-to-do van Oosterwijk Bruyn
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• Seney Mennonite Church (Seney, Michigan, USA)
  ministerial team included Bishop John D. Miller, Minister Vancen Miller, and Deacons Collier Berkshire, Lyle Bontrager, and Ken Miller. Mennonite Church Directory
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• Horst, ter, family
  the house of Berend ter Horst, also a weaver. Many of this family were deacons, among whom should be mentioned Abraham ter Horst (1715-1779), who was a
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• Shade Mountain Christian Fellowship (Mifflin, Pennsylvania, USA)
  The church was led by Bishop Daniel Fisher, Minister Nathan Fisher, and Deacons Leroy S. Yoder and Kinley Coulter. Anderson, Cory. The Amish-Mennonites
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• Flines, de, family
  number of other Mennonite families like Willink and Leeuw. Some of them were deacons of the Amsterdam Toren Waterlander congregation—Gillbert de Flines 1625-1648
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• Slavgorod Mennonite Church (Slavgorod Mennonite Settlement, Siberia, Russia)
  baptizing, administering the Lord's Supper, and the ordination of ministers and deacons in all the districts. However, each district had its own leading minister
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• Eeghen, van (van Eeghem, Eegen, Egen, Egene, Hegen) family
  church both by their generosity and their loyalty, often serving it as deacons or even as ministers. Many wealthy members of this family have rendered
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• Bylandt, von, family
  1646 they seem to have been organized in a congregation with their own deacons. At the end of the 17th century the von Bylandt family offered them residence
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• Ministry (Prusso-Russian Background Mennonites)
  election of a deacon and minister. First two deacons were chosen. Gerhard Dyk with 25 votes, Klaas Reimer with 24 votes. Of these two deacons one was elected
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• White Rock Mennonite Church (White Rock, British Columbia, Canada)
  Liang. For a number of years the church had no pastor but was served by the deacons of the church and guest speakers. The first years were devoted in helping
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• Veer, de (De Fehr, Fehr, Defehr, Devehr, Dever, Devaehr, Du Verre) family
  Amsterdam the de Veer family came to great wealth. Some of its members were deacons of the church and a few served as preachers. Claes de Veer (son of the original
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• Ranst, Jan van (1634–1684)
  Ranst and Reyer van Ranst, apparently both sons of Jan van Ranst, were deacons of the Rotterdam congregation, Cornelis from 1689 and Reyer from 1705. Doopsgezinde
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• Bethel Mennonite Church (Perkasie, Pennsylvania, USA)
  Fretz, 1918-1942; Ward W. Shelly, 1942-1951; and Lester Janzen, 1951- . Deacons who served were Harvey H. Baum, 1905-1910; Clayton F. Myers, 1910-1945;
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• Fries, Abraham Jacobs (17th/18th century)
  family of which many members served the Amsterdam church as deacons. Fries was four times a deacon (1677-1682, 1687-1692, 1697-1702, 1707-1712). He is of special
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• Tippecanoe Old Order Mennonite Settlement (Indiana, USA)
  and Lewis S. Ramer (ordained 2010), and deacon Jonathan R. Weaver (ordained 1999). These ministers and deacons alternated every Sunday in both meetinghouses
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• Geertruidenberg (Noord-Brabant, Netherlands)
  belonged to the Flemish Mennonites, and in 1665 joined the Zonist branch. Deacons at this time were Jan Jansz van Langereyt and Augustijn Gerritsz Hulstman
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• Groveland Evangelical Church (Groveland, Illinois, USA)
  Joseph Rediger, Joseph Springer, Moses Ropp, Amos Oyer, and Paul Rupp; and deacons, Andrew Roth, Ben Roth, Daniel Ackerman, and E. E. Zimmerman. Groveland
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• Whiteville Mennonite Church (Whiteville, Tennessee, USA)
  ministerial team included Bishop Kevin Earl Yoder, Minister Ray L. Kauffman, and Deacons Merlin Mast and Lloyd J. Helmuth. "Amish Mennonite Churches in Tennessee
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• Associação das Igrejas Menonitas do Brasil
  Witmarsum. The conference consisted in 1987 of 800 members, 18 ministers, 11 deacons, 46 Sunday school teachers, and 6 choirs. In 2003 there were 772 members
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• Vogt, David D. (1907-1994)
  the Culloden MB Church, where they worshipped and continued their work as deacons for 4 years. Their final move was to the Clearbrook Mennonite Brethren Church
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• Spring River Mennonite Church (La Russell, Missouri, USA)
  Bishop Allen J. Mast, Ministers Nathaniel Graber and Michael Sommers, and Deacons Herman Schrock and Joseph R. Yoder. Anderson, Cory. The Amish-Mennonites
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• Woodlawn Mennonite Fellowship (Dorking, Ontario, Canada)
  Kevin Bauman, Richard "Rick" Bauman, Edgar Frey, and Mervin Martin, and Deacons Abner Martin and Paul Weber. Countryside Mennonite Fellowship Church, Hawkesville
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• Severn Mennonite Church (Margarettsville, North Carolina, USA)
  team included Bishop Dale Eugene Miller, Minister Delbert L. Martin, and Deacons Philip M. Hackman and Gerald Hackman. Mennonite Church Directory (2014):
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• Gaaikema family
  (1786-1848) lived in the hamlet of Gaaikemaweer near Niehove; both were deacons of the Humsterland Old Flemish congregation. To the same family belonged
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• Son Light Missions Lacolline (Haiti)
  400. Besides the superintending pastor, the church had recognized four deacons and an evangelist as part of its leadership. This group was located in the
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• Waldheim (Saskatchewan, Canada)
  Mennonite Brethren Church with 87 members and J. H. Jantzen as the leader and deacon. The town also had a Seventh-Day Adventist Church, whose members come mostly
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• Authority
  leadership pattern emerged. Bishops or elders, preachers or shepherds, and deacons were authorized through ordination. Called by the community and confirmed
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• Almira Mennonite Church (Unionville, Ontario, Canada)
  Wideman, Jacob Wideman, Samuel Wideman, Lewis S. Weber and Aaron D. Grove. Deacons included Daniel Hoover, Christian L. Hoover, Manasseh R. Fretz and Jacob
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• Neuland Mennonite Church (Neuland Colony, Boquerón Department, Paraguay)
  leader in 1954 was still Hans Rempel. He was assisted by 20 ministers and deacons, many of whom had been recently elected. Five ministers received financial
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• Centen family
  beginning of the 19th century, have served the congregation bij't Lam as deacons. MLA style Gingerich, Melvin. "Centen family." Global Anabaptist Mennonite
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• Mennonite Welfare Board (Mennonite Conference of Ontario)
  1948 the child welfare work in Ontario was under this organization. The deacons were encouraged to cooperate in presenting the needs of all members with
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• Zell, Katharina (16th century)
  the poor and the persecuted. She was also to tell his assistants and his deacons that they should leave the Anabaptists and all of other faiths in peace
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• Swanton Mennonite Fellowship (Swanton, Maryland, USA)
  Bishop Eli A. Hershberger, Ministers Jason E. Kanagy and Urie Kanagy, and Deacons Isaac S. Stoltzfus and John Beiler. "Amish Mennonite Churches in Maryland
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• Schoen family
  time in 1697. There were many Schoens at Zaandam-West; some of them were deacons of the congregation and governesses of the Mennonite orphanage. In Zaandam
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• Rijp, van de, family
  Jan and Job van de Rijp Centen transferred the title to this home to the deacons of the Lam and Toren Mennonite congregation, who still govern the Rijpenhofje
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• Hope Valley Mennonite Church (Flatgap, Kentucky, USA)
  ministerial team included Ministers Sidney Sensenig and Alvin Zimmerman and Deacons Joseph Showalter and Walter Martin. "Hope Valley Mennonite Church." The
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• Kauenhowen (Kauenhoven, Kaunhowen, Kauenhofen) family
  period from 1678 to 1830 eleven members of the Danzig Kauenhovens were deacons of the Danzig Flemish Mennonite Church, three of whom were also ministers
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• Reiff Mennonite Church (Washington County, Maryland, USA)
  Martin, Ministers Ethan G. Eby, Steven R. Martin, and Richard E. Weber, and Deacons Myron D. Eby and Seth M. Eby. The church had 272 members. The church was
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• Schimmelpennink family
  the Schimmelpennincks, particularly at Zwolle and Almelo, were Mennonite deacons. Thomas Schimmelpenninck, of Zwolle, represented the Zwolle congregation
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• Lochem, van (van Loghem, van Loghum) family
  1818-1829. Many members of the van Lochem family served the Mennonite Church as deacons. By marriage they became related with a number of well-known Mennonite families
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• Ewert, Peter F. (1900-1988)
  Abbotsford and Central Heights. Peter and Nettie were ordained for life as deacons and Peter taught various Sunday school classes over the years. But perhaps
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• Toren, Hendrik (ca. 1663-ca. 1731)
  apparently leaders. When Toren became bankrupt (1712), the preachers and deacons of the Mennonite congregation demanded that he avoid the communion service
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• Hartsen family
  congrega­tion as deacons, among whom were Anthony Han­sen, b. 1719 at Amsterdam, d. there 1784, who be­sides being a merchant and a deacon was also a poet
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• Halmael, van, family
  number of prominent Mennonite families, provided many deacons. Jacob Otto van Halmael, a deacon in the Amsterdam Flemish congregation, sided with Galenus
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• Living Springs Mennonite Fellowship (East Berlin, Pennsylvania, USA)
  minister, and Roy Diem and Justin Martin as deacons for the new congregation. Justin Martin had been ordained deacon for Living Springs on 29 August 2014 and
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• Brunk family
  number of the descendants of George Brunk (born 1831) were ministers and deacons in the Mennonite Church (MC). The most influential members of the Brunk
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• Franklin County (Pennsylvania, USA)
  Mennonite Conference. The Reformed branch had one bishop, one minister, and one deacon. According to an article on the Mennonites by John B. Kauffman in a history
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• Iglesia Evangélica Menonita de Belice
  Church General Church Council was established, consisting of pastors and deacons from each congregation. The church was incorporated in 1981. In 1987 the
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• Voss, de, family
  Mennonite and until the 19th century many served as deacons. Jan Janssen de Voss, d. 1716, a deacon from 1706, was a preacher of the Hamburg Mennonite congregation
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• Iglesia Nacional Evangélica Menonita Guatemalteca
  Christian community of about 5,000. Each congregation had a pastor and several deacons. Leaders were usually chosen from within the congregation. The conference
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• Linden Church of God in Christ, Mennonite (Linden, Alberta, Canada)
  called the "Linden Home." Between 1922 and 1955, seven preachers and four deacons were ordained. The church had the regular services, Christian Endeavor programs
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• Pribitz Bruderhof (Pribice, Jihomoravský kraj, Czech Republic)
  Zierotin, to place the order for him. In Pribitz occurred the death of the two deacons, Michel Ritter on 27 February 1615, and Merthin Hederich on 1 May 1616;
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• Reidenbach Mennonite Church (Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA)
  Christian County, Kentucky. In 2010 it had two bishops, four ministers, and two deacons. The John J. Martin church group also grew, but split into many different
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• Apostolic Succession
  doctores (teachers), presbyteri pel seniores (elders, bishops), and diaconi (deacons), who do not differ from each other in rank, but only in function, together
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• Vogel, de, family
  Thomas de Vogel was a deacon of the Leiden Waterlander congregation until 1672 and Willem de Vogel from 1676 in the same church. Deacons at Amsterdam were
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• Reublin, Wilhelm (1480/84-after 1559)
  also on other days; they had a proper congregational organization, with deacons who gathered contributions from the members and others in the vicinity.
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• Rijkmans family
  from the congregation because he opposed the decision of the elder and the deacons to rebaptize his wife, who had come from the Borne Mennonite congregation
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• Hillside Christian Fellowship (Beechy, Saskatchewan, Canada)
  Wiens. Other preachers were John D. Hiebert and Jacob Schellenberg. The deacons were Abr. H. Dück and Friedrich Mielke. Henry Berg was Beechy’s first hired
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• Health Services
  includes care for the poor, the aged, feeble, sick, sorrowing, and needy. Deacons and deaconesses were to provide many of these services. In the migrations
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• Tucumcari Church of God in Christ, Mennonite Spanish Mission (Tucumcari, New Mexico, USA)
  congregation. Different ministers and deacons and their wives resided at the mission home and helped in the work. Deacon Simon Wedel and his wife of Copeland
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• Miller, Moses J. (1811-1897)
  Wayne County in 1865. Nineteen Holmes-Tuscarawas bishops, ministers, and deacons attended. Since the report does not include the statements of individual
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• Rahusen family
  have been loyal Mennonites, and from 1796 to 1947 eleven of them served as deacons, some serving three or four periods. (6) Herman Jan Rahusen (1817-75), married
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• Somerset County (Pennsylvania, USA)
  1860–1881; Jonas Yoder (1798-1860), deacon; Tobias S. Yoder (1811-1878), deacon; David D. Yoder (1837-1914), deacon; Christian Miller (1786-1842). Others
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• New Mennonite Church of Canada West
  Bishop Benjamin Eby on 27 May of that year, along with Bishop Jacob Gross and Deacon Jacob Albrecht, also among the ordained leaders at "The Twenty." They were
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• Newark Church of God in Christ, Mennonite (Ithaca, Michigan, USA)
  in 1954. The membership in 1957 was 265. Nine other ministers and five deacons had been ordained by the church up to that point; Glenn Litwiller was the
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• Offerings
  basis. The taking of offerings during the church service by having the deacons, or most commonly ushers, send collection plates through the pews probably
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• Wiebe, Johann D. (1853-1909) (category Deacons)
  Johann D. Wiebe, elected deacon of the Chortitzer Mennonite Church on 15 December 1881, was the oldest of eight surviving children of Bishop Gerhard Wiebe
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• Blair County Old Order Mennonite Settlement (Pennsylvania, USA)
  Martin (ordained 2000). The deacons were Noah M. Newswanger (ordained 1994), Lawrence Z. Zimmerman (ordained 2001), and retired deacon David S. Nolt (ordained
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• Grondt-steen van Vreede en Verdraegsaemheit
  of a conference of preachers and deacons held on 18 July 1674 at Amsterdam. It was addressed to "the preachers, deacons and members of the Waterlander and
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• Verkruissen family
  century also found at Rotterdam and Amsterdam. Some of its members were deacons of the church. MLA style Zijpp, Nanne van der. "Verkruissen family." Global
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• Hoch, Daniel (1805-1878)
  stepbrothers, Preachers Dilman and Abraham Moyer. Gross and Hoch, along with Deacon Jacob Albrecht, favored incorporation of some renewal forms learned from
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• Flemish Mennonites
  Bintgens, soon called Huiskoopers (Housebuyers), and a group led by the deacon Jacob Keest, called Contra-Huiskoopers. Attempts were made by the Flemish
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• Bierma family
  Ternaard, Hallum, and Oudebildtzijl many members of this family served as deacons. MLA style Zijpp, Nanne van der. "Bierma family." Global Anabaptist Mennonite
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• Bosland family
  Ouddorp. Since the early 17th century many of its members have served as deacons. Paulus Willemsz Bosland (d. 1703) was from 1672 a preacher and from 1686
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• Nagtegaal family
  century. In the 1950s the descendants of this family were still serving as deacons there. The Nachtigal family found in Russia and America and formerly in
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• Mennonite Confession of Faith, 1963
  church had regional overseers such as Timothy, and bishops (pastors) and deacons in the local congregations. Upon the pastors lay the responsibility for
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• Schouwenburg, van, family name
  tileworks from the early 18th century or before. Some of its members were deacons at Harlingen and later at Zaandam, where a branch of the Schouwenburgs lived
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• Kratzer family
  Nieuwe Zwitsers congregation near Groningen 1740-1779. Others served as deacons both in the Nieuwe and Oude Zwitsers church. Gratz, Delbert L. Bernese Anabaptists
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• Broederschap
  on special questions as, for example, to choose preachers, elders, and deacons, to pronounce or lift the ban; nowadays this word, an equivalent of the
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• Swart family name
  century, many of whose members have served the Terschelling congregation as deacons, the last being A. G. Swart and Tjebbe Swart, the latter serving until 1953
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• Hoogezand-Sappemeer (Groningen, Netherlands)
  Sappemeer all having joined the main Mennonite congregation. In 1802 the deacons of the "former Swiss congregation" sold a house and a tract of land on the
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• Schijn, Herman (1662-1727)
  himself to the interests of the Mennonite church. In 1685 he was appointed deacon of the Rotterdam Flemish congregation and in 1686 called to the ministry
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• Iglesia Evangélica Menonita (Ahome, Sinaloa, Mexico)
  41 members. The ministerial team consisted of Bishop Gustavo Verdugo and Deacons Victor Manuel Islas and Gustavo Adolfo Pacheco. Mennonite Church Directory
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• Goos family
  congregations in Germany. Abraham Goos and his son Isaak (1696-1769) were deacons of the Mennonite church at Friedrichstadt. Another Isaak Goos studied theology
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• Keg
  particularly to England. Many members of the Keg family have served as deacons in the West Zaandam Mennonite congregation and in a few other congregations
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• Craig Mennonite Church (Craig, Colorado, USA)
  included Bishop Dale Martin, Ministers Levi R. Schrock and Micah Schrock, and Deacons Durrell Martin and Brent Wenger. Mennonite Church Directory 2014. Harrisonburg
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• Port-de-Paix Mennonite Mission (Port-de-Paix, Haiti)
  1993. In 2014 the congregation was served by Minister J. Lester Horst and Deacons Daniel L. Eby and Elwood P. Strite. The church had 46 members. Mennonite
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• New Bethlehem Mennonite Church (New Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA)
  Fellowship Churches. The ministerial team included Minister Philip Mullet and Deacons Titus Hofer and Ronald Reinford. Mennonite Church Directory 2014. Harrisonburg
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• Belen Mennonite Church (Belen, New Mexico, USA)
  ministerial team included Bishop Merle Yoder, Minister John Mark Shenk, and Deacons Timothy Miller and Nathan Zimmerman. Mennonite Church Directory 2014. Harrisonburg
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• Cleyndert family
  of Oostzaandam. They usually were grain merchants, and some of them were deacons in the church. A descendant of this family, Claes Cleyndert (1799-1842)
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• Darbun Mennonite Church (Kokomo, Mississippi, USA)
  ministerial team included Bishop Simon R. Yoder, Minister Lyndon Burkholder and Deacons Klaas Reimer and John Strite. Mennonite Church Directory 2014. Harrisonburg
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• Canaan Mennonite Church (Hopewell, Ohio, USA)
  Bishop Jonathan D. Mast, Bishop David J. Mast, Minister Denis J. Horst, and Deacons Richard N. Eby and Earl J. Nisly. Mennonite Church Directory 2014. Harrisonburg
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• Northern Utah Mennonite Church (Tremonton, Utah, USA)
  ministerial team included Bishop Nathan Hege, Minister Mark Sommers, and Deacons Cornelius Bauman and Stephen Hertzler. Mennonite Church Directory 2014.
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• Sharon Mennonite Church (Elida Ohio, USA)
  included Bishop John Brunk, Ministers Ronald Bear and Lyndon Hartman, and Deacons Stanley Bear, Brian Reeder, and Allen Troyer. Mennonite Church Directory
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• High Prairie Mennonite Church (Carpenter, Wyoming, USA)
  Fellowship Churches. The ministerial team included Minister Jerri Rohrer and Deacons James Rhodes and Kevin Martin. Mennonite Church Directory 2014. Harrisonburg
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• Blue Ridge Mennonite Church (Carlisle, Pennsylvania, USA)
  team included Bishop H. Stephen Ebersole, Minister Darvin Halteman and Deacons Larry E. Halteman and James Weaver. Mennonite Church Directory 2014. Harrisonburg
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• Calvaart family
  Leiden and Haarlem. Both Crijn Pietersz Calvaart and Joost Calvaart were deacons of the church at Leiden about 1675. Adriaen Calvaert, who in the early 17th
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• Grand Valley Mennonite Church (Loma, Colorado, USA)
  Churches. The ministerial team included Minister Jason P. Gingerich and Deacons Galen Byers and Delbert Ruble. Mennonite Church Directory 2014. Harrisonburg
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• Daalder family
  Dutch Mennonite family on the island of Texel. Many of them served here as deacons; Dirk Reyertsz Daalder was a lay preacher of the Waterlander congregation
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• Gleason Mennonite Church (Gleason, Wisconsin, USA)
  Jonathan L. Martin, Ministers Mervin N. Brubaker and J. Luke Martin, and Deacons Luke Gerber and Jonathan Showalter. Mennonite Church Directory 2014. Harrisonburg
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• Sandy Ridge Mennonite Church (Bremen, Indiana, USA)
  ministerial team included Bishop John D. Miller, Minister Vancen Miller, and Deacons Collier Berkshire, Lyle Bontrager, and Ken Miller. Mennonite Church Directory
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• Unity Mennonite Church (Unity, Wisconsin, USA)
  Fellowship Churches. The ministerial team included Minister Robert Zimmerman and Deacons Donald Zimmerman, Alvin Fox, and Isaac D. Martin. Mennonite Church Directory
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• Waynecastle Mennonite Church (Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, USA)
  served by Ministers Marvin C. Martin, Luke M. Diller, and Mahlon R. Eby and Deacons Mervin C. Horst and Sanford C. Martin. The church had 132 members. Mennonite
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• Newton Bible Church (Newton, Kansas, USA)
  April 1955, the following request with 28 signatures came to the board of deacons of the First Mennonite Church of Newton: "Having felt a definite need for
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• North Lebanon Mennonite Fellowship Church (Lebanon, Pennsylvania, USA)
  ministerial team included Bishops Delmas I. Gehman and Dwayne S. Martin and Deacons Elton L. Gehman and John G. Weaver. Mennonite Church Directory 2014. Harrisonburg
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• Calvary Mennonite Church (Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, USA)
  Bishop Duane L. Witmer, Ministers Edwin R. Eby and Sherwin Brougher and Deacons Marlin D. Rosenberry and Vernon Shank. Mennonite Church Directory 2014.
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• Sharon Mennonite Fellowship (Salem, Ohio, USA)
  ministerial team included Bishop Melvin G. Horst, Minister Steven Yoder, and Deacons Wilbur Steiner and Melvin S. Neuenschwander. Mennonite Church Directory
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• Grande Ronde Mennonite Church (Cove, Oregon, USA)
  Ministers Edwin P. Steiner, Paul J. Kauffman, and Dwayne W. Martin, and by Deacons Harley J. Kauffman and Peter Martens. The congregation had 72 members. Mennonite
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• Tigler family
  the Tigler Wybrandis also served the church as deacons, e.g., Jan Tigler Wybrandi, d. 1912, who was a deacon of the Utrecht congregation in 1897-1903, 1906-8
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• Grijspeert, Pieter (17th century)
  found. It contained questions to be presented to newly chosen preachers, deacons, and baptismal candidates, gives directions for the baptismal ceremony,
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• Preston Mennonite Church (Cambridge, Ontario, Canada)
  family groups immigrated here from Pennsylvania and included an ordained deacon, Jacob Bechtel. Joseph Bechtel arrived in 1802 and was ordained as the first
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• Swichtenheuvel family
  called Zonists). In Utrecht some members of the Swichtenheuvel family were deacons of the Mennonite congregation: Gillis van Swichtenheuvel 1716-1718, Cornelis
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• Hoofman family
  Mennonite Church, both Flemish and Waterlanders. Many of them served as deacons or were trustees of the Mennonite orphanages and old people's homes (Hofjes)
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• Boyer Hill Mennonite Church (Bartow, West Virginia, USA)
  Heatwole, Larry D. Showalter, and Ken Martin, Minister James E. Helmuth, and Deacons Laurel L. Eby and David Martin. Mennonite Church Directory 2014. Harrisonburg
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• Elm Street Mennonite Church (Lebanon, Pennsylvania, USA)
  Bishop Sherwin M. Weaver, Ministers Howard G. Horst and David Groff and Deacons Brendle S. Martin and Galen M. Martin. Mennonite Church Directory 2014.
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• Roelofs, Oeds (1765-1848)
  his descendants are still found in Friesland, many serving the church as deacons. Three uncles of Oeds Roelofs served as lay preachers of the Dantumawoude
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• Meadow View Mennonite Church (Hagerstown, Maryland, USA)
  Bishop Larry R. Weber, Ministers David L. Halterman and David E. Weber, and Deacons Richard M. Lehman and Roy H. Petre. The church had 103 members. Mennonite
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• Meadow Green Mennonite Church (Three Springs, Pennsylvania, USA)
  ministerial team included Ministers Nelson W. Halteman and Calvin Yoder and Deacons Rodney D. Bange and James L. Hertzler. Mennonite Church Directory 2014.
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• Hebron Mennonite Church (Richland, Pennsylvania, USA)
  Finley, Clair R. Burkholder, Stephen C. Ehst, and David Steinhauer, Jr., and Deacons Henry Klassen, Joel V. Ovalle, Rene S. Rivera, and Laban G. Zimmerman, Jr
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• Herr family
  Cumberland County), Christian S., Frank M., and Emory H., as well as numerous deacons and outstanding farmers. John Herr (1782-1850) founded the Reformed Mennonite
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• East Zorra Mennonite Church (Tavistock, Ontario, Canada)
  South Easthope and East Zorra congregation. The first resident leader was Deacon Nicholas Roth. The following year Dr. Peter Zehr (a minister and medical
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• Deutsch-Wymysle (Masovian Voivodeship, Poland)
  Jakob Voth, Johann Kliewer and Johann Schmidt. Bernhard Voth served as deacon for 35 years, and was followed by Heinrich Unruh.                       
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• Goverts (Govertsen, Gowert, Govert) family
  minister Jacob Denner. His brothers Hermann and Gerard Goverts Hermanns, both deacons, were successful businessmen. After their death their business continued
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• Mellinger, Martin (1752-1842) (category Deacons)
  Martin Möllinger/Mellinger: Mennonite deacon and farmer; born 28 December 1752 at Ruchheim, near Mannheim, in the German Palatinate. Married Barbara Baer
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• Hoek, van, family
  Amsterdam in the 17th century, members of the Waterlander congregation (deacons Anthonie van Hoek 1639-1650, 1657-1662, and Leonard van Hoek 1668), and
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• Grijspeert (Gryspeere, Grisperre, Gryspeer, Grijspaart) family
  persecution, particularly to Haarlem. Many members of this family have served as deacons, both in Haarlem and Amsterdam. The preacher Pieter Grijspeer (Grijspeert)
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• Potzbach (Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany)
  was Hans Weiss of Potzbach, who was one of the first leaders and deacons of the Sembach congregation. Until 1784 there was a Mennonite ceme­tery in Potzbach
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• Piedmont Mennonite Church (Amelia Court House, Virginia, USA)
  Simon R. Yoder, Ministers Jerry Yoder, Jr. and David Joseph Hooley, and Deacons A. Clair Auker and Joseph William Shank. "Amish, Anabaptists and Mennonites
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• Greene County Mennonite Church (Chuckey, Tennessee, USA)
  team included Bishop Raymond J. Fisher, Minister Andrew Jay Miller, and Deacons Roman J. Kauffman and Marlin J. Stoltzfus. "Amish Mennonite Churches in
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• Danskin Mennonite Church (Burns Lake, British Columbia, Canada)
  ministerial team included Ministers Daniel B. Martin and Charles H. Priest and Deacons Chester B. Martin and Trennis J. Wiens. The congregation began services
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• Seneca Mennonite Church (Romulus, New York, USA)
  ministerial team included Bishop Carl Z. Sensenig, Minister David E. Huber, and Deacons Marlin L. Nolt and David B. Zimmerman. Mennonite Church Directory 2014.
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• Gätte (Trnavský kraj, Slovakia)
  von Lipa, and wandered about at the mercy of the populace. In 1552 four deacons were confirmed at Gätte. Then the Bruderhof is not mentioned until 70 years
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• Roosen, Gerrit (1612-1711)
  In 1640 he married Maria (Mayken) Amoury, the daughter of the Mennonite deacon and merchant Hans Amoury. His grandmother had had personal contact with
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• Cimarron Church of God in Christ Mennonite (Cimarron, Kansas, USA)
  Koehn were ordained to the ministry and Jake Wadel and Henry Redger as deacons. The Depression years were very difficult, and many members moved away because
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• Independent Old Order Mennonite Church (Ontario, Canada)
  living by this time). Minister David Martin, and his son David W. Martin, a deacon, immediately began holding meetings. They asked for the use of the South
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• Graudenz (Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)
  between Frederick William III of Prussia and Abraham Nickel of Jamrau, the deacon at Culm (Schönsee), 8 October 1806 in the "gouverneur" house, later a school
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• Kerber (Körber, Kerwer, Körffer) family
  from 1814; another Peter Kerber as preacher from 1801. Others served as deacons. They were apparently all farmers. In 1940 there were 42 bearers of the
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• Cnoop (Knoop) family
  centuries, living in Bolsward, Friesland, where they were merchants and often deacons of the local church. Wopke Claes Knoop, born 2 February 1740, at Bolsward
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• Living Word Believers (Wolfe City, Texas, USA)
  had 28 members. The ministerial team included Bishop Marion Garber and Deacons Steve Williams and Lavern Kauffman. "Amish Mennonite Churches in Texas."
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• Rotgans family
  West-Terschelling and Nes on Ameland some members of this family served as deacons. A noted member of this family is Jacob Wybrands Rogtans (Terschelling,
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• Kaars family
  late 17th century they were manufacturers of canvas. Some of them were deacons of the church. A lateral branch of this family is the Kaars Sijpestein family
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• Loewen, George H. (1931-2021)
  consistently actively involved in the activities of their churches, serving as deacons and helping with catering. George also assisted with his accounting skills
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• Treesbank Community Church (Wawanesa, Manitoba, Canada)
  and the community full-time. The church has been served by a number of deacons, including C. P. Dueck, F. P. Thiessen, Ed Wiebe and Leonard Plett. In the
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• Vola-Vodzinska Mennonite Church (Płońsk, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland)
  (1842). Heinrich Kerber and Heinrich Kliewer, both elect­ed in 1842, were deacons. The fact that 1842 is given four times as the year of the election of the
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• Vlieland (Friesland, Netherlands)
  to find deacons and preachers from their own membership, most of the men being absent for months. Consequently the old men had to serve as deacons and at
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• Ris family
  whose members, usually conservatives, served the church as preachers and deacons. It seems to have had its origin in Hoorn, province of North Holland; branches
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• Mount Moriah Mennonite Fellowship (Maryville, Missouri, USA)
  ministerial team included Bishop Dale Byler, Minister Clayton Yoder, and Deacons Ervin Dale Schrock and Kevin Yoder. Anderson, Cory. The Amish-Mennonites
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• Fast, Heinrich (1849-1930)
  whom lived to become adults, two of the sons, John and George, becoming deacons in the church. In 1910 he retired from farming. Fast was also a minister
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• Nijmegen (Gelderland, Netherlands)
  who did much to promote the financial status of the brotherhood was the deacon Jan Godschalks van Elten (d. 1700), who came from München-Gladbach, Jülich
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• Branchweilerhof (Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany)
  Duttweiler, and Mussbach (not Mossbach), 25 families. Preacher, Hans Dester; deacon, Jakob Gut." It should be noted that there was a small Amish congregation
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• Forks Mennonite Church (Middlebury, Indiana, USA)
  Miller was ordained bishop in 1906. Miller, who died in 1955, was ordained deacon in 1890, minister in 1891, and bishop in 1906, all three times by D. J.
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• Quiring family name
  Ladekopp, Orlofferfelde, and Tragheimerweide congregations. Many preachers and deacons in the West Prussian congregations since 1650 had this name. Johann Quiring
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• Godshalk (Godshall, Gottschall, Gottshall, Gottschalk, Godtschalch, Gaedtschalck) family
  Pa., 1924). The family has included a number of bishops, ministers, and deacons. Well-known members of the family include the preacher-author Abraham Godshalk
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• Buys (Buis) family
  1746 until his death in 1753, a large number of the Buys family served as deacons. Doopsgezinde Bijdragen (1902): 241. Hoop Scheffer, Jacob Gijsbert de. Inventaris
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• Mabé family
  In the 19th century some of the descendants of Cornelis Mabé served as deacons in the Haarlem Mennonite church. Femina Mabé (1784-1870), of Haarlem, was
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• Mercer Bible Fellowship (Harrodsburg, Kentucky, USA)
  Fellowship. Ten families were chosen to start the new fellowship, including two deacons, Daniel Coblentz and David Sommers. The Harrodsburg area provided numerous
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• Verwer family name
  law (1716, 1730). In Amsterdam (Lamist) and elsewhere some Verwers were deacons. CJzn, J. de Lange. Beknopte Geschiedenis der Doopsgezinte gemeente te Alkmaar
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• Cents, Jan (17th century)
  Jan Cents (Centsz, Centsen), a Dutch Mennonite of Amsterdam, probably a deacon of the church, who with 13 other members of the Frisian and High German
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• Oak Grove Mennonite Church (West Liberty, Champaign County, Ohio, USA)
  later of Clinton Frame, Elkhart County, Indiana, and John P. King, bishop-deacon (volliger Armendiener), who later moved to Logan County, Ohio. John Werrey
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• Cornelis de Vlaminck (1491-1535)
  until his death. He was a very active man, who gave Jan Paeuw and the other deacons of the church considerable amounts of money. Doopsgezinde Bijdragen (1917):
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• Louwe family
  large number of them served the Mennonite congregation of Zaandam-West as deacons. Louwrens Jansz Louwe (b. 2 February 1657 at Zaandam, d. there 30 January
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• Rheingrafenstein (Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany)
  congregation divided into its three component parts, each with its own deacons and preachers, but served by one elder, Jakob Galle of Uffhofen, who was
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• Pesch, van, family
  served as deacons from 1668 until 1875. Originally they were tanners and fur traders, later furriers and bankers. Jacob van Pesch, a deacon, edited Joannes
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• Goerz (Geerts, Gerrits, Gerritsen, Gerts, Gertz, Gerzen, Goertz, Görts, Görtz, Görz) family
  (formerly Christlicher Gemeinde-Kalender). Goertz, Adalbert. "Ministers and Deacons of the Montau-Gruppe Mennonite Church in Prussia." Mennonite Family History
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• Friesen, David W. (1879-1951)
  grain, clothing and food.  The Bergthaler Armenkasse was administered by deacons until the 1950s, and then taken over by church and conference service committees
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• Mersch, van der, family
  of the Dutch East Indies trade. A few members of this family served as deacons of the Mennonite church. Jan van der Mersch, a weaver, a native of Kortrijk
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• Maurik, van
  Utrecht, Amsterdam, Haarlem, and Rotterdam. A number of its members served as deacons and at least three of them were Mennonite ministers. Aert Thonisz van Maurik
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• Meyn (Mein, Mayn, Main) family
  all of the Frisian congregation. A number of the Meyn family also were deacons. Some members of this family belonged to the Flemish congregation of Zaandam
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• Oortman family
  Leiden, Amsterdam, and other places. Many members of this family served as deacons (eleven at Utrecht during the period 1699-1909). Andries Oortman, who obtained
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• Middelhoven family
  1691; his son Jacob was a deacon there in 1729. Many members of the Middelhoven family until the 20th century served as deacons of the West-Zaandam congregation
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• Bruyn family
  members of the Lamist congregation of Amsterdam. Some of the family served as deacons: Willem B., 1669-1674; Ysbrand B., 1702-1707 and 1716-1721; Abraham B.,
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• Sermons
  were to do nothing but preach, leaving the pastoral work to the bishop and deacons. The publication of sermons, as distinct from tracts and treatises, though
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• Investments
  beyond family needs be encouraged to loan some to the deacons fund at 2 percent interest. The deacons in turn loan out to more needy families these resources
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• Hoek, Kornelis van (d. 1722)
  congregation, but seems to have left the congregation in 1695, when the deacons had thwarted the Collegiants, who had been holding their meetings in the
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• Mennonite Home (Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA)
  of trustees, headed by Bishop Jacob T. Harnish, was composed mostly of deacons. Many additions have been made to the building, so that the 1957 residential
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• Menno Mennonite Church (Menno Colony, Alto Paraguay Department, Paraguay)
  elder from the beginning, was assisted by twenty-one preachers and six deacons. In 1953 (according to Fretz) there was only one meetinghouse in the colony
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• Friesland Mennonite Church (Friesland Colony, San Pedro Department, Paraguay)
  (1955) ; the membership was 220 in 1955, served by five ministers and two deacons. Worship services were held every Sunday in cooperation with the Mennonite
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• Poole, Le, family
  been loyal members of the Mennonite Church and many of them have served as deacons at Leiden. They were usually prosperous textile manufacturers. Anthony's
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• Glad Tidings Mennonite Fellowship (Tara, Ontario, Canada)
  Bishop Rodney Weber, Ministers Abner Brubacher and Michael Martin, and Deacons Arliss Brubacher and Cleon Weber. Brubacher, Abner. "Glad Tidings Mennonite
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• Stouffer Mennonite Church (Washington County, Maryland, USA)
  Ministers Clifford E. Martin, Lavern E. Martin, and David W. Rudolph and Deacons Verne I. Lehman and Edward S. Martin. In that year church membership was
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• Rogge family
  served the West Zaandam Frisian congregation as deacons. Adriaan Rogge (1736-1826), manufacturer and also a deacon of this church, was one of the leaders in
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• Clinton Frame Church (Goshen, Indiana, USA)
  in the 1954 were Vernon Bontreger, pastor, and Ira S. Johns, minister. Deacons who served up to 1950 were Daniel Schrock, Ira S. Johns, David Yontz, Vernon
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• Zürich (Switzerland)
  have a charity fund for the aid of the poor, administered by a "treasurer (deacon?) which received legacies and gifts and even owned a small farm near Sihlbrugg
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• Yellow Creek Mennonite Church (Goshen, Indiana, USA)
  estimated the Elkhart County Mennonite membership at 400-500. A visitor, Deacon Frederick A. Rodes of Virginia, estimated the capacity of the meetinghouse
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• North Danvers Mennonite Church (Danvers, Illinois, USA)
  represented the three orders of the Amish ministry: bishops, ministers, and deacons. The new church building was erected in 1872 and remodeled in 1917. The
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• Crystal View Mennonite Church (Floradale, Ontario, Canada)
  the plural ministry in the local congregation of bishop, ministers and deacons (chosen from the congregation) who form a permanent body to lead in church
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• Pleasant View Old Order (Wisler) Mennonite Church (Mahoning County, Ohio, USA)
  80 members in the late 1950s. In 1872 preacher Samuel Good (1810-83) and deacons David Weaver (1819-90) and Christian Lehman (1832-1912) with about 16 families
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• Christen, Christen (17th century)
  imprisoned in 1659 at Bern, Switzerland, with six of his fellow preachers and deacons. They had to choose between joining the Reformed Church, expulsion, or death
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• Halbertsma (Halbetsma) family
  large progeny, many of whom served in several Mennonite congregations as deacons. Lieuwe E. Halbertsma (b. 1824 at Grouw, d. Lippspringe, Germany, 1854)
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• Pekelharing family
  of the Pekelharing family served the Zaandam-Oostzijde congregation as deacons, as for example Willem Jan Pekelharing (1851-1933), a merchant who was also
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• Hovens family
  side-branch of this family is the Hovens Greve family, of which there have been deacons until now. Koenraad Hovens Greve (1779-1874) of Haarlem served as pastor
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• Tak family
  respectively. Many of the Taks until recent times served the church as deacons at Vlissingen, Zierikzee, Middelburg, Brouwershaven, Rotterdam, Leiden,
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• Vissering family
  with the Lamists in 1801 to the United Mennonite church. Some of them were deacons at Amsterdam. This family furnished two Mennonite preachers, i.e., Jacobus
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• Jansz, Arent (1610-1679)
  Arents and his father-in-law Jan Jansz Mabe of Groningen were preachers or deacons in the Flemish congregation, and had attended the debate held at Middelstum
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• Chortitz Mennonite Church (Menno Colony, Alto Paraguay Department, Paraguay)
  of Menno. In 1949 the membership was 1,105, served by 11 ministers and 4 deacons with Martin C. Friesen of Osterwick as elder. Church services are held regularly
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• Hondschoote (Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France)
  It may have existed about 1540-1587. A letter of Adriaen van Kortrijk, deacon or preacher of Ghent, addressed to the congregation of Antwerp about 1545
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• Winton Church of God in Christ, Mennonite Church (Winton, California, USA)
  families, two ministers, and a deacon formed the new congregation. In the 1950s, 22 families, a minister, and a deacon moved to the Glenn area and formed
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• Old Colony Mennonite Church (La Crete, Alberta, Canada)
  total of 2,300 attending. The church was served by seven ministers and 20 deacons, along with the elder. Besides the four church buildings, services were
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• Bowne Mennonite Church (Clarksville, Michigan, USA)
  1866-1904; Isaac Weaver, 1891-1917; and Aldus Brackbill, 1908-1928. The deacons were Herman Bender, 1866-1905; Joseph Mishler, 1900-1928; Eli Zook, 1912-1923;
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• Bremen (Freie Hansestadt Bremen, Germany)
  He was supported by the ministers of the West Prussian congregations, a deacon, and six elders. The congregation belongs to the Vereinigung der Deutschen
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• Geisberg (Alsace, France)
  (Schafbusch) since 1928, preacher Fritz Hirschler (Geisberg) since 1937, deacon Jean Hirschler (Geisberg) since 1921. Hege, Philipp. "Das kriegszerstörte
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• Olive Branch Confession of Faith (1627) (section Of the Office of Teacher and Deacon in the Church; also how the Election to, and the Confirmation in, these Offices, must Proceed, according to the Ordinance of God)
  body of Christ, yet not all are therefore pastors, teachers, elders, or deacons, for these are those who have been properly appointed to such offices. For
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• Christian Faith Church (Winkler, Manitoba, Canada)
  was meeting on Cargil Road in Winkler. The Pastor was Jake Krahn and the Deacons were Peter Driedger, John Redekop, Jake Wall, and Cornie Penner (retired)
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• Mount Forest Mennonite Meetinghouse (Mount Forest, Ontario, Canada)
  replaced by Spring Creek Mennonite Meetinghouse in 1972. No ministers or deacons were ordained for this congregation during its existence. Mennonite Reporter
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• Vlieger, de, family
  down dur­ing the war in 1713. Many members of the de Vlie­ger family were deacons, and some served as preach­ers; one of these was Gerrit Vlieger from 1765
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• Wijnands family name
  from the 17th century was of Dutch descent. At Haarlem some Wijnands were deacons in the 17th-19th centuries, in Rotter­dam in the 19th century. There have
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• Corinth Mennonite Church (Aylmer, Ontario, Canada)
  ministerial team included Bishop Raymond Weber, Minister Farayi Kutama, and Deacons Dwayne Weber and Ivan Weber. Directory of the Northeast Fellowship. Aylmer
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• Velde, van de, family
  in both the Zonist and the Lamist congregations. Some of them served as deacons, the last of whom was Lucas Cornelis van de Velde, serving 1908-1913, 1919-1923
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• Friesland Mennonite Brethren Church (Rückenau, Friesland Colony, San Pedro Department, Paraguay)
  1953 to 234. The church at that time was served by six ministers and three deacons. Services were held regularly every Sunday in the village schools; however
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• Berea Mennonite Fellowship (Rutherford, Tennessee, USA)
  included Bishop Steve Yoder, Ministers David Schrock and Aaron Witmer, and Deacons Marlin Miller and Silas Troyer. "Amish Mennonite Churches in Tennessee."
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• Heukelom, van, family
  were many of his descendants, nearly all of whom also served the church as deacons or as managers of the Hoeksteen home. One member of this family, Frans van
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• Waard, de, family
  name. Until c1850 they were nearly all farmers. Many of them served as deacons in the Pieterzijl (since 1892 called Grijpskerk) Mennonite congregation
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• Gelder, van, family
  It is not clear whether Pieter van Gelder and Jan van Gelder, who were deacons of the Mennonite congregation at Utrecht about 1651-1679 belonged to the
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• Houttuyn family
  at Hoorn. In Hoorn and Amsterdam a number of members of this family were deacons. The grandmother of J. G. de Hoop Scheffer, noted Mennonite minister, historian
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• Wisler, Jacob (1808-1889)
  union were born at least seven chil­dren, including David (1830-1902), a deacon. In 1833 Jacob was ordained to the ministry in the Mid­way Mennonite (MC)
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• Lille (Nord-Pas de Calais, France)
  Klaesken and four sons, Klaes, Christiaen, Hans, and Mathieu. Jan was a deacon and preacher. He practiced his weaver's trade at various localities in Flanders
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• Utrecht (Utrecht, Netherlands)
  der Voort was still elder, Hans Wijtses the preacher, and Jan Joostes the deacon. The male membership then numbered 73 and the total baptized membership
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• Veer, Isaac de (1673-1745)
  settled at Amsterdam, and Isaac de Veer, many of whose descendants were deacons of the Danzig congregation. Jacob de Veer (b. 1739), Isaac's grandson, was
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• South Sudanese Mennonite Church (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)
  pastor, an evangelist, a deacon, a secretary, a treasurer, a minister of children, and a missions leader. Women also served as deacons and wore blue dresses
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• Clercq, de, family
  no fewer than 18 members of this family served the church bij't Lam as deacons. In Middelburg, Zeeland, there must also have been a branch of this family:
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• Crafts of the Hutterian Brethren
  all twelve articles of the Christian faith were practiced. There were deacons and teachers for their schools. They sustained themselves with all kinds
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• Blokzijl (Overijssel, Netherlands)
  Volkert de Graaf, with a few members of the congregation, including the deacon, Adriaen Stuurman, joined the Moravian Brethren (Herrnhuter) in 1742, and
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• Outerman, Jacques (ca. 1547-ca. 1639)
  Jacob (van) Reinegom (also Reninge, or Reyninghen). In 1586—he was then a deacon at Franeker in Friesland—he opposed Thomas Bijntgens (Bintgens), the elder
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• Krehbiel, Christian Emmanuel (1869-1948)
  Bethel College Mennonite Church at North Newton, Kansas, where he served as deacon for many years. He organized the Lorraine Avenue Mennonite Church, Wichita
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• Stauffer family
  from the Palatinate served as ministers. Christian Stauffer was either a deacon or a preacher at Gerolsheim ca. 1740. Daniel Stauffer of Guntersblum served
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• Brielle (Zuid-Holland, Netherlands)
  rapidly. The members made contacts with the Remonstrants; thus in 1715 their deacon Pieter Zonnevijl united with the Remonstrants with the announcement that
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• Waldenses
  their own organization with a threefold ministry of bishop, presbyter, and deacon, with formal ordination. The preacher was called "uncle." In modern times
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• Leer (Niedersachsen, Germany)
  this chapel, called "De Schollenberg," which had been the property of the deacon David Joosten (Vissering) was purchased in 1771. It was razed in 1825, and
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• Rees (Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany)
  congregation. Until 1680 it was an independent congregation with preachers, deacons, and elders. On 6 August 1680, Jakob Welsing of Rees married Helene van
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• Maple View Mennonite Church (Wellesley, Ontario, Canada)
  was the bishop, along with ministers John Jausie and Joseph Lichti, and deacon John Gerber. As was the Amish custom, services were held every two weeks
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• Moyer (Moyers, Mayer, Meyer, Meyers, Myers) family
  Montgomery County. One of his sons, Christian Meyer, (ca. 1705-87) was a deacon in the Franconia district of the Mennonite Church (MC) Franconia Conference
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• Mennonite Church (MC)
  The traditional triple congregational ministry of bishop, preacher, and deacon still prevailed in most district conferences in the 1950s, although there
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• Tichelaar family
  Encyclopedia I, XXV, Nos. 1 and 2. Many members of this Tichelaar family have been deacons of the church and trustees of the conference of Friesland, Pieter Ymes Tichelaar
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• Bowman, Moses S. (1819-1898)
  Church; two of his daughters, Louisa Bergey and Leah Baer, were the wives of deacons of the Mennonite Church. One grandchild, Moses S., was the minister of Roseville
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• Geyersbühler, Nikolaus (d. 1567)
  Seelowitz, Moravia. On Epiphany 1563 he was one of four brethren chosen as deacons. Three years later, though he was illiterate, he was sent to the Tyrol to
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• Snep family
  Hamburg. In the 18th century some members of the Snep family at Haarlem were deacons of the church and trustees of the Mennonite orphanages. Doopsgezinde Bijdragen
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• Pastoral Visiting
  pastoral care committees to assist ministers in pastoral care. The role of deacons has declined or disappeared in most congregations of the more acculturated
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