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lay leader

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A volunteer appointed by the commanding officer and supervised and trained by the command chaplain to serve for a period of time to meet the needs of a particular religious faith group when their military chaplains are not available. The lay leader may conduct services, but may not exercise any other activities usually reserved for the ordained clergy. See also command chaplain; combatant command chaplain; religious support; religious support plan; religious support team.


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Her father was a seminary professor specializing in Old Testament studies; her mother acted as a lay leader in the Presbyterian Church, in which Henderson herself would eventually be ordained.
The university was founded in 1964 with a lay leader as president.
Ramon Cisneros of Sylmar, lay leader of the Presbytery of Santa Barbara in Goleta.
 
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