{"id":138,"date":"2014-08-23T12:42:01","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T16:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jbcroanoke.com\/?page_id=138"},"modified":"2018-01-17T16:13:54","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T21:13:54","slug":"deaconess-ministry","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jbcroanoke.com\/?page_id=138","title":{"rendered":"Deaconess Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2026..<strong>And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, <\/strong><strong>giving thanks to God and the Father by him.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Colossians 3:17<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The mission of the Deaconess Ministry shall be to serve as female spiritual servants; leaders and lay persons for the Pastor and Jerusalem Baptist Church members and to spiritually educate by evangelizing to the unsaved and unchurched throughout the community.<\/p>\n<h4>Officers<\/h4>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">President<\/address>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">Deaconess Rena Ferguson<\/address>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Vice President<\/address>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">Deaconess\u00a0Carolyn Shovely<\/address>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Secretary<\/address>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">Deaconess\u00a0Elizabeth Preston<\/address>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Treasurer<\/address>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">Deaconess Cheryl Harrington<\/address>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Assistant Treasurer<\/address>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">Deaconess Elizabeth Harvey<\/address>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Chaplain<\/address>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">Deaconess Emma Woods<\/address>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Deaconess Ministry conducts monthly meeting on each Saturday before the 1<sup>st<\/sup> Sunday. \u00a0Our meeting starts promptly at 3:00 PM.\u00a0 We currently have 19 members with 3 Deaconesses Emeritus.<\/p>\n<p>We celebrate our anniversary the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Sunday in April.\u00a0 This anniversary is joint with our Deacon Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u2026..<strong>I command unto you Phoebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea: That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many and of myself also.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Romans 16:1-2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Please contact the church clerk at 540-344-3788 to reach our Deaconess Ministry.\u00a0 We are here to serve the people.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026..And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him. Colossians 3:17 &nbsp; The mission of the Deaconess Ministry shall be to serve as female spiritual servants; leaders and lay persons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"page-PageTemplate3.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jbcroanoke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jbcroanoke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jbcroanoke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jbcroanoke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jbcroanoke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jbcroanoke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jbcroanoke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}