Passion Sunday 2021 Holy Eucharist

Reading of Scripture within the Community of Faith is shaped by our common worship, we also carry forward the old tradition of meeting for the purpose of reading and coming to terms with scripture.  There we learn the power of the voices and the power of the stories within the text to address us directly at…

A DEACONESS IN OUR CHURCH?  BIBLICAL & HISTORIC!    LAY MINISTRY A Brief History The recognized service of women as Deaconess in the Church dates from apostolic days.  The term diakanos—literally “servant”—used both for Deacons and, in the early days, for Deaconesses, is applied by St. Paul, Romans 16:1 to “Phoebe, a diakanos in the church which is in Cenchraea.”  Through the…