{"id":231,"date":"2021-07-15T16:32:02","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T16:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghbm.org\/gh\/?page_id=231"},"modified":"2026-03-20T11:04:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T15:04:54","slug":"deacon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ghbm.org\/gh\/ministry\/deacon\/","title":{"rendered":"Deacon"},"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 DEACON 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\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghbm.org\/gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Gods-House-252.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 serves as advisors to the Pastor in the welfare of the Church; assists in organizing Church activities and the ordinance of baptism; and provides leadership for other Church ministries. Deacons provide leadership and serve the Church family by visiting the sick, caring for members of the Church and the community.<\/font><\/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;\">Each Deacon must have a rapport with God; be convicted, redeemed, spirit filled, and baptized by immersion. He must also be conversant with the Holy Bible and be a sincere worshipper with an active prayer life. The Deacon must set examples of Christian living.<\/span><\/font><\/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;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Procedure for becoming a Deacon:<\/span><\/font><\/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;\">New members are selected by a committee of the Deacon Ministry and are voted upon by the Church. In addition to the Pastor and Elders, Deacons are the only ordained members of the Church.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OUR DEACON MINISTRY This Ministry serves as advisors to the Pastor in the welfare of the Church; assists in organizing Church activities and the ordinance of baptism; and provides leadership for other Church ministries. Deacons provide leadership and serve the Church family by visiting the sick, caring for members of the Church and the community. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":72,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-sidebar-on-right","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-231","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghbm.org\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/231","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=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghbm.org\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7298,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghbm.org\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/231\/revisions\/7298"}],"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=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}