Definition of ministers:
(n) :
(government) A politician who heads a ministry
(n) :
(Protestantism) A person who is trained to preach, to perform religious ceremonies, and to afford pastoral care at a Protestant church.
(n) :
(Roman Catholicism) A person (either a layperson or an ordained clergy member) who is commissioned to perform some act on behalf of the Catholic Church.
(n) :
In diplomacy, the rank of diplomat directly below ambassador.
(n) :
A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.
(v) :
(intransitive, used with "to") To attend to (the needs of); to tend; to take care (of); to give aid; to give service.