HANDBOOK FOR ELDERS IN THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH …

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Persons elected to be presbyters (teaching elders - ministers of the Word and Sacrament - and elders) and deacons are set apart through ordination.3 The ordination is carried out with prayer and with the laying on of hands and focuses on Christ and the joy and responsibility of serving him through the mission and ministry of the Church.

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