Nancy Vyhmeister

The name Junia appears only once in the New Testament (NT). She is mentioned in a list of friends and coworkers in Rome to whom Paul sent greetings recorded in Romans…

It was my good fortune to grow up in a home where my father felt that girls could and should do everything they could and wanted to do, as long as it was in good taste. Thus I learned early to change fuses, fix the iron, saddle the horse,…

Martin Luther had little interest in world mission. He believed that the universal gospel commission had been given exclusively to the apostles; pastors in his day need worry only about their own parishes. Basically,…

Holmes is to be commended for his concern that "the authority of Scripture must remain supreme" for the Adventist Church (p. 47) and that culture must not be allowed to modify the gospel (p. 43). He correctly asserts: "Recognizing the full…

The elders were kneeling in a circle I around George, who was about to I become a deacon. The pastor was I praying for George, for his family, for his ministry to the church. As laying on of hands was mentioned, each…

It’s time for the nominating committee to meet. New officers, including elders and deacons, must be selected. Brother Jones would make a good elder. I’d love to see Sister Smith as an elder too, but with Brother Concerned…

Editor’s Note: Part one (July 2008) traced the role of the deaconess in the New Testament church and through history until deaconesses and their function disappeared during the Middle Ages. Part two examines the role of the deaconess…

Editor’s Note: Part one of a two-part series examines the role of the deaconess in the New Testament and early church. Part two, to appear in September 2008, will examine the role of the deaconess in the Adventist Church.¹

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