Tag: women’s ordination

The South Pacific Division’s support of women in ministry is within the General Conference policy and manuals and solidly based on the biblical beliefs of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

A speech of note set the tone for the commissioning service of Avondale seminarian Dr Wendy Jackson. Avondale College of Higher Education president Professor Ray Roennfeldt’s welcome expressed his frustration with the worldwide Seventh-day Adventist Church’s decision not to give regional divisions the autonomy to ordain women.

Seminarian’s commissioning a celebration and affirmation of women in ministry.

A summary of day 1 of the Division Executive Committee and an important discussion that took place.

SPD leaders respond to Annual Council compliance vote.

The executive committee of the South Pacific Division is requesting the General Conference consider changing its policy to allow commissioned ministers to have the same entitlements as ordained ministers.

The General Conference Annual Council voted today to accept a document entitled “Unity in Mission: Procedures in Church Reconciliation” by a margin of 169 votes to 122.

Some say "Islam is evil." It's not. Math problems have one, clear-cut answer. Life itself is not so simple.

Church unity is not about uniformity but union with Christ and not about knowing but practicing truth as found in Jesus, an Avondale lecturer’s doctorate shows.

In a show of solidarity with their female colleagues, a number of male Adventist pastors in the United States have requested that their ministerial credentials be changed from “ordained” to “commissioned”.