I caught up with Coburn, a medical doctor and ordained Southern Baptist deacon.
James Murphy, deacon of the diocese's mother church, the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, said church leaders are always skeptical at first.
This is a deacon with the owner of the story.
And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.
If there is only one deacon, he takes his place at the right of the celebrant.
Many in the message allow unmarried men to be ministers and at the same time forbid them to hold the office of a deacon.
Pray that during the first deacon Board meeting, God will grant the five newly elected deacons wisdom, vision and insights on leading the church.
He was a deacon at the Above Bar Congregational Church.
In verses 8-10 and 12, Paul sets forth the qualification necessary for a man who serves as a deacon.
A deacon must be husband of one wife, and must know how to guide his children and manage his household.
