Overseers & Deacons

[TLFisher]

Having met with three fellowships at one time or another, the local churches, a baptist denomination, and now a community church, each has handled the functions and responsiblilties of elders/deacons differently.

This past Sunday I was at a newcomers luncheon for ones such as my family who began meeting with a community church. A sister who's also new to the community church raised an intriguing question about elders. What are their qualifications?
An elder whose home hosted the luncheon answered her with 1 Timothy. Read 1 Timothy and you'll read the qualifications. I asked the question, what about brothers who have been divorced. The brother pastor responded by distinguishing when the brother was divorced. Before or after salvation. Although in the pastor's time at the church, they've never had the issue come up. The elder who had been with the community church much longer added in they have had to disqualify brothers in the past because they've been divorced. I didn't probe any deeper if they go into reasons or not and left it at that. The pastor did add before a brother officially becomes an elder, the prospective elder is put to a vote with two-thirds approval being the benchmark.
As to the functions, responsibilities include church oversight, shepherding individual matters, caring for families, teaching, moderating home meetings, etc.