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Snapshots of Deaconesses at Work and Worship Pictured below is the REC Deaconess in Cuba, Dss. Dalvis Baptisa. The REC mission work in Cuba is a work of the Diocese of Western Canada and Alaska.
Dss. Annette Johnson (far right) and 12 of the 18 ladies who attended a women's retreat near Montrose, CO, in September 2009, are shown in the photo below. Using the Offices of Instruction as the basis for discussion, Dss. Johnson asked the question, "Are we living into the vows of our Baptismal Covenant?"
The photo below shows Dss. Debbie Kidd (center) with several women of The Anglican Church of St. George the Martyr, Simpsonville, SC, delivering handmade preemie blankets to Bon Secors St. Francis Hospital Eastside, Greenville, SC.
Dss. Annette Johnson and Dss. Mary Jane Mathieu are pictured below in their distinctive blue cassocks as they take part in the processional at the investiture of Archbishop Duncan, Anglican Church in North America.
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[The office of deaconess] opened to pious women and virgins, and chiefly to widows, a most suitable field for the regular official exercise of their peculiar gifts of self-denying charity and devotion to the welfare of the church. Through it they could carry the light and comfort of the gospel into the most private and delicate relations of domestic life, without at all overstepping their natural sphere. Paul mentions Phoebe as a deaconess of the church of Cenchreae, the port of Corinth, and it is more than probable that Prisca (Priscilla), Mary, Tryphaena, Tryphosa, and Persis, whom he commends for their labor in the Lord, served in the same capacity at Rome. (Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church, Volume 1)
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