Deacons’ Meetings

Rev. Cammenga is pastor of Southwest Protestant Reformed Church in Grandville, Michigan. "The deacons shall meet, wherever necessary, eve y week to transact the business pertaining to their office, calling upon the Name of God; whereunto the ministers shall take good heed and if necessary they shall be present."  Church Order, Article 40. Introduction No mention is made in Article 29 of the Church Order of deacons' meetings as a distinct ecclesiastical gathering: "Four kinds of ecclesiastical...