Southeastern California Conference Takes Massive Step Towards Equality in Ministry

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Adventist Equality

Great News! The Southeastern California Conference released the following press release today:

Riverside, CA — The Executive Committee of the Southeastern California Conference voted today “to remove the term ‘Ordained-Commissioned’ and replace it with the term ‘Ordained’ on all ministerial credentials, regardless of the gender of the credential holder.” This is effective immediately.

Since 2000 the conference had issued “Ordained-Commissioned” ministerial credentials to men and women.

The committee believes this step will enable all pastors to better fulfill the conference’s mission statement, which is the expansion of God’s kingdom through preaching, teaching, publishing and living of the everlasting gospel throughout the cross-cultural communities of its territory.

Mid-America Union Ends Discrimination. Will the Pacific Union Be Next?

Posted on March 11, 2012 by Robert Jacobson

Great news! The Mid-America Union Executive Committee voted to end the discriminatory practice of refusing ordination credentials based on gender.

The Mid-America Union Votes to Support the Ordination of Women | Spectrum Magazine

This comes a month after the so-called E-60 policy, which would have opened leadership positions to women in the North American Division, was rescinded. NAD President Dan Jackson explained that the NAD had overstepped its legal bounds in voting on the E-60 policy, as the NAD does not have constituencies and thus cannot deviate from General Conference policy.

However, unions do have constituencies, and therefore any union may shed discriminatory policies with a simple vote of its executive committee–which is exactly what the Mid-American Union did. And guess what? Next Tuesday is the next meeting of the Pacific Union Executive Committee. Will the Pacific Union be the next union to stop limiting the possibilities of women to serve their church for no other reason than that they are female? Let’s hope so!

Support Equality for Adventist Women and Men

Posted on December 24, 2011 by Adventist Equality

The time is now for the Adventist Church to end discriminatory practices and institute full gender equality in all of practices. That’s why we’ve launched AdventistEquality.com—a grassroots effort to urge the Church to make the necessary changes and allow qualified Adventist women to receive equal recognition for equal work. We believe that the time is now to correct this immoral injustice against a majority of the church’s membership.

We hope you’ll join us today by expressing your support for the ordination Adventist women to ministry. And keep checking back — there’s more coming.