Sentence examples for served as a deacon from inspiring English sources

He was a committed Christian who served as a deacon at his church for three years.

Mr. Keel taught Sunday school and served as a deacon, and with Ms. Keel took Bible-study classes.

St. Paul refers in Romans 16 to a first-century woman named Junia as prominent among the early apostles, and to a woman named Phoebe who served as a deacon.

She served as a Deacon of the Madison Ave Presbyterian Church, a ten year docent at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and a long time volunteer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Mr. Crawford said he regarded Sewall, with his apology for serving on the witchcraft court and in his antislavery pamphlet, as acting very much in the tradition of Old South, where Benjamin Franklin was baptized and where the Revolutionary patriot Samuel Adams served as a deacon.

One of the first women ordained as a priest in the Anglican Church in Australia, the Revd Susanna Pain, served as a deacon at St James' and women in leadership positions in the Anglican Church such as Bishops Kay Goldsworthy and Genieve Blackwell, have been invited to preach.

He arrived in Alexandria, Egypt, in the 1970s to serve as a deacon to Patriarch Nicolaos VI.

He still serves as a deacon at Maranatha Baptist Church, taking responsibility for 10 families assigned to him.

He also serves as a deacon at a small brick Baptist church, where Justin Tuck helped lead the Sunday school program before he went to college.

I would also expect a heterosexual person who is having premarital or extramarital sex to be prevented from serving as a deacon or elder.

Mr. Carter will continue to serve as a deacon and Sunday school teacher at his home church in Plains, Ga., Maranatha Baptist Church, which is still affiliated with the convention.