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. ”
برای مثال ،‏ در کتاب مقدّس می‌خوانیم که وقتی پولُس و بَرنابا از اولین سفر میسیونری برمی‌گشتند ،‏ « با دعا و روزه در هر جماعت ،‏ پیرانی برای شاگردان منصوب کردند و آنان را به یَهُوَه که به او ایمان آورده بودند ،‏ سپردند .‏ »