Gloria Sumpter - president of Deaconess board
The duties of Deaconesses shall be to prepare elements for Holy Communion, to assist and prepare candidates for baptism; to go about doing good; to encourage, foster and improve the general interest of the church; to promote the comfort and solicit the friendship and sympathy of the general church; to minister to the wants and suffering, sorrow sin-laden world; to minister to the poor; visit the sick, pray with the dying; care for the orphans, seek the wandering, confort the sorrowing, save the sinning, and ever be ready to take up any duty for which willing hands cannot be otherwise found. The duties of the Deaconesses and the Stewardess are not interchangeable.