Tag: Theology of Ordination Study Committee

Representatives from Australia and New Zealand attended and presented at the Unity 2017 conference in London.

A decisive vote was taken in regards to ordination at last year's General Conference Session. Yet many questions remain.

Dolores E Slikkers, a co-founder of Maranatha Volunteers International and philanthropist who helped shape Seventh-day Adventist Church policy, died in a car crash in her hometown of Holland, Michigan. She was 85.

The Seventh-day Adventist Church as early as next July may decide to take a historic vote on whether to allow women to be ordained ministers.

Seventh-day Adventist Church president, Dr Ted Wilson, appealed to church members worldwide to earnestly read what the Bible says about women’s ordination and to pray that he and other church leaders humbly follow the Holy Spirit’s guidance on the matter.

The Theology of Ordination Committee comprising 106 Adventist men and women of diverse ages, ethnicities, and professions, and set up by the leadership of the General Conference in September 2012, has now completed its work.

The Biblical Research Committees of the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s 13 world divisions have now submitted their recommendations on the subject of the ordination of women to pastoral ministry.

The Seventh-day Adventist Church in the South Pacific has unanimously affirmed a report from its Biblical Research Committee that “does not see any scriptural principle which would be an impediment to women being ordained”.

The Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America yesterday voted to recommend to the General Conference Theology of Ordination Study Committee (TOSC) a recommendation from its own TOSC that affirms both men and women for ordination to ministry.

Seventh-day Adventist world church officials have released a statement regarding Pastor Sandra Roberts' election as president of the Southeastern California Conference.