Some context for the setting. My master's was at a university in a city in South Asia, in a batch of sixty-plus people, and part of the coursework meant flying to a US university town where our partner university was based.
"I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, the deaconess1 of the church of Cenchrea2 that you may receive her in the Lord, as befits the saints, and may assist her in whatever business she has need of you, for she has been a helper of many, and of myself as well" (Romans 16:1-2).