Sr. Shana Williams sat down at the 2017 Deaconess Assembly and talked about why she become a Deaconess. She went to seminary planning on becoming a pastor. She did not know there were other professional roles in the church. She had grown up in a small, farming...

Tuesday evening, the Senate agreed to send the Farm Bill to a conference with members of the House What does this mean: 47 representatives (Republican conferees; Democrat conferees) and nine senators still to be named, will negotiate over the contents of the Farm...

March 2018 at the Deaconess Assembly, Dr. Dave Webb, superintendent of the South St. Paul Public Schools, sat in the back of the room and waited patiently to share stories from his district as the Deaconess Community worked on a resolution to benefit the school...