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. ”
Për shembull, kur Pavli dhe Barnaba po ktheheshin nga udhëtimi i parë misionar, « emëruan pleq në çdo kongregacion dhe, duke u lutur me agjërime, ia besuan Jehovait, tek i cili ata kishin besuar ».