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Richard Bevan Hays (May 4, 1948 – January 3, 2025) was an American New Testament scholar and George Washington Ivey Professor Emeritus of New Testament Duke Divinity School in Durham, North Carolina.
Prior to the construction of its own building in 1964, the library was housed at Merrill City Hall. [3] The library building has had two additions in 1969 and in 2001. In 2017, T.B. Scott Free Library installed a 27.25 kilowatt solar power array expected to provide about 15 percent of the library's annual electricity usage.
The terms deaconess and diaconate also come from the same root, which refers to the emphasis on service within those vocations. In scripture deacons were those whom the Church appointed to dispense alms, and take care of the poor. Diakonia is a term derived from Greek, used in the Bible, New Testament, with different meanings.
The American Deaconess movement in the early twentieth century, 1987. Garland Pub., ISBN 0-8240-0650-X; Dougherty, Ian. Pulpit radical : the story of New Zealand social campaigner Rutherford , Saddle Hill Press, 2018. Gvosdev, Ellen. The female diaconate: an historical perspective (Light and Life, 1991) ISBN 0-937032-80-8; Ingersol, S. (n.d.).
The Apostle Paul's use indicates that its range of meanings had not changed by New Testament times. This suggests that Phoebe was a woman of means, who, among other things, contributed financial support to Paul's apostolate, [ 9 ] and probably hosted the house church of Cenchreae in her home, as well as providing shelter and hospitality to Paul ...
Theodor Fliedner (21 January 1800 – 4 October 1864 [1]) was a German Lutheran minister and founder of Lutheran deaconess training. In 1836, he founded Kaiserswerther Diakonie, a hospital and deaconess training center. Together with his wives Friederike Münster and Caroline Bertheau, he is regarded as the renewer of the apostolic deaconess ...
Johann Konrad Wilhelm Löhe (21 February 1808 – 2 January 1872) (often rendered 'Loehe') was a pastor of the Lutheran Church, Confesional Lutheran writer, and is often regarded as being a founder of the deaconess movement in Lutheranism and a founding sponsor of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS).
Lincoln County is a county located in the U.S. state of Wisconsin.As of the 2020 census, the population was 28,415. [1] Its county seat is Merrill. [2] The county was created in 1875 [3] and named after President Abraham Lincoln. [4]