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Teaching elders or ministers were responsible for preaching and administering the sacraments. In some churches, prominent laymen would be elected for life as ruling elders to govern the church alongside teaching elders (lay elders could preach but not administer sacraments). In the beginning, deacons largely handled financial matters.
In Christianity, an elder is a person who is valued for wisdom and holds a position of responsibility and authority in a Christian group. In some Christian traditions (e.g., Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, Methodism) an elder is an ordained person who serves a local church or churches and who has been ordained to a ministry of word, sacrament and order, filling the preaching ...
John Strong (1610–1699) was an English-born New England colonist, politician, Puritan church leader, tanner, and one of the founders of Windsor, Connecticut, and Northampton, Massachusetts, as well as the progenitor of nearly all the Strong families in what is now the United States. He was referred to as Elder John Strong because he was an ...
Elder Lucy Smith (1874–1952), also known as Lucy Turner Smith, was an African-American Pentecostal pastor and faith healer, who founded All Nations Pentecostal Church in Chicago, Illinois. Her healing ministry attracted large numbers of followers and her church grew to have 3,000 members.
Lightfoot Solomon Michaux (November 7, 1885 – October 20, 1968) was an African-American evangelist. Michaux was an early pioneer in radio and television evangelism, an innovative real estate developer, F.B.I. provocateur, an astute businessman, a newspaper publisher, and a restaurateur. He founded seven East Coast Church of God congregations.
(Fambro began attending the church in 2006 and became an elder in 2014, according to Gateway’s website.) Morris hasn’t been charged with a crime and didn’t respond to messages requesting ...
Last week, Morris’ son and daughter-in-law, both high-level pastors at Gateway, resigned suddenly after they and church elders “collectively” decided it would be best for them to leave.
The A.M.E. Zion Church was the first to open this high-level position to women. [2] As an elder, Small had the same rights as a minister, including authority over male members of the church. [9] Her social influence was also great, as seen in the Mary J. Small Social Club.