In this episode, we interview Deaconess Cheryl Naumann who serves with her husband, Rev. Dr. Jonathan Naumann, as LCMS missionaries based in the Dominican Republic. Cheryl discusses her own training to become a deaconess and also shares what diaconal ministry is like in a missionary setting. Deaconess Naumann is the author of In the Footsteps of Phoebe: A Complete History of the Deaconess Movement in the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod.
