We are told that when Paul and Barnabas were on their way back home from their first missionary trip, “they appointed elders for them in each congregation, offering prayer with fasting, and they entrusted them to Jehovah, in whom they had become believers. ”
Piemēram, mājupceļā no sava pirmā misijas ceļojuma Pāvils un Barnaba ” katrā draudzē iecēla vecākos un, gavējot un lūdzot, nodeva [mācekļus] Jehovas ziņā, kuram tie bija sākuši ticēt ”.