| They are the primary carers of children, collectors of food like coconuts and fruit, and also act as deaconesses in the church. |
| He arranged for several deaconesses to work abroad, not only in North America but also in Russia, Estonia, and Bessarabia. |
| She has also proposed a creative revival of the order of deaconesses that once existed in the Eastern Church. |
| In the early 1970s, while in seminary, I wrote a seminar paper for Professor Glenn Hinson on the roles of deaconesses in the early church. |
| Churches have a difficult time finding elders, deacons or deaconesses to serve. |
| Deacons and deaconesses were appointed as needed to run the kitchen, the housekeeping, the garden, the farm, etc. |
