{"id":229,"date":"2021-07-15T16:31:21","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T16:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghbm.org\/gh\/?page_id=229"},"modified":"2026-03-20T11:05:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T15:05:37","slug":"elder","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ghbm.org\/gh\/ministry\/elder\/","title":{"rendered":"Elder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"98%\" height=\"1100\" style=\"border-width: 0px\" cellspacing=\"1\">\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-style: none; border-width: medium\" valign=\"top\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center\"><font color=\"#FF0000\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial Black; font-size: 20pt;\">OUR ELDER MINISTRY<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1985\" alt=\"elders\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghbm.org\/gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/elders.jpg\" width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;\">This Ministry, according to the Bible, serves the congregation in the general areas of teaching proper doctrine, protecting from heresy and other dangers, helping those who are sick and governing the policies and direction of the Church.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration:underline\">Qualifications for becoming an Elder:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;\">The biblical qualifications require that Elders demonstrate exemplary lifestyles and a willingness to serve. Our Elder&#8217;s role also requires ordination and a college degree level of theological education for appointment.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OUR ELDER MINISTRY This Ministry, according to the Bible, serves the congregation in the general areas of teaching proper doctrine, protecting from heresy and other dangers, helping those who are sick and governing the policies and direction of the Church. Qualifications for becoming an Elder: The biblical qualifications require that Elders demonstrate exemplary lifestyles and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":72,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-sidebar-on-right","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-229","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghbm.org\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghbm.org\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghbm.org\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghbm.org\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghbm.org\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghbm.org\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7300,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghbm.org\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/229\/revisions\/7300"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghbm.org\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghbm.org\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}