History
History
The history of this Deaconess Community can be located in four places: Kaiserswerth, Germany; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Baltimore, Maryland; and Omaha, Nebraska.

Philadelphia
Before the summer of 1884, John Lankenau’s friend and fellow hospital board member, the German Consul in Philadelphia, Charles H. Meyer, traveled to Germany to inquire about the availability of deaconesses from Kaiserwerth motherhouse and other motherhouses to staff...