Seventh Day Adventists

Seventh Day Adventists


"Thus within nineteenth-century Adventism one finds....... women licensed as ministers,...... "
Source: http://www.adventist.org/world_church/facts_and_figures/history/index.html.en
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"Dr. Simmons holds the distinction of becoming the first woman to serve as a vice president of the world Seventh-day Adventist Church."Source: http://www.adventist.org/world_church/presidential/simmons.html

(Women taking leadership by teaching pastors!??)

Quote by Raquel Arrais, associate director for Women's Ministries for the world church.

"I taught the course in Latvia to pastors, their wives and women ministries leaders. The pastors were very impressed and thought the course was one which all pastors should take," said Small, who has taught leadership courses all over the world. "This program will help women who are already serving in positions of leadership [to] improve their leadership skills."

Source: http://news.adventist.org/data/2006/01/1140628578/index.html.en

Apparently, there are over 1100 women elders who have been ordained in North American congregations.

(To ordain someone means to appoint to a clerical post, or invest with ministerial or priestly authority. A woman doesn't have an office of authority in the church.) They are helpers!