Smith and other church elders considered the name "Mormon" derogatory.
For those in a sound church, this preparation should begin with the church elders.
Was the dear girl afraid of being found out by the church elders?
And at Redeemer women cannot be ministers or church elders.
My mother lives here because the church elders chose her for my father.
The church elders were going to stand you in one place and you'd have to read a chart at the far end of the meeting hall.
"We should both have been church elders some day," Adam says.
The bridegroom's mother and father were represented by church elders who share his family name, but are not related.
The church elders had been hoping to exchange their property for a new building in another part of town.
After 5 years her inability to produce a further child was questioned by the church elders.