| In addition to ministers, many Baptist churches had ruling elders, assistants, exhorters, deacons, deaconesses, elderesses, and evangelists. |
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| They are the primary carers of children, collectors of food like coconuts and fruit, and also act as deaconesses in the church. |
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| She has also proposed a creative revival of the order of deaconesses that once existed in the Eastern Church. |
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| Churches have a difficult time finding elders, deacons or deaconesses to serve. |
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| Deacons and deaconesses were appointed as needed to run the kitchen, the housekeeping, the garden, the farm, etc. |
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| Huszagh is among church members advocating the reinstitution of women deaconesses in Orthodoxy. |
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| The assembly also set aside money to help deaconesses develop their ideas into new ministries. |
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| Both authors raise the issue of restoring the long disused order of deaconesses. |
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| After a short introduction on the role of deacons and deaconesses, Swan relates the brief stories of sixteen such female ministers. |
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| In the early 1970s, while in seminary, I wrote a seminar paper for Professor Glenn Hinson on the roles of deaconesses in the early church. |
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| He arranged for several deaconesses to work abroad, not only in North America but also in Russia, Estonia, and Bessarabia. |
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| Kaiserwerth was a new type of hospital operated by Lutheran deaconesses and was reported to be like no other hospital in all of Europe or the United States. |
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| The organizing of an association of Lutheran deaconesses with their charitable work for the weakest members of society required an increasing amount of attention. |
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| What duties did early English Baptist churches assign to deaconesses? |
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| Women were appointed as deaconesses from 1861 but they could not function fully as deacons and were not considered ordained clergy. |
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| Only men are allowed to take holy orders, although deaconesses had both liturgical and pastoral functions within the church. |
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| The prayers for the ordination of deaconesses in the several sacramentaries through the twelfth century are identical to those used in the ordination of a deacon. |
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| To read the appointments of deaconesses, diaconal ministers, lay persons in service under the World Division of the General Board of Global Ministries, and home missionaries. |
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| Deaconesses ministered primarily to women, and their role was catechetical and philanthropic. |
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