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Building Community in Cabramatta E Cl It O R I Al GENDER OFF the AGENDA He Role of Women in Ministry Women Dealing with a crisis in church RECORD J a n u a r 2 0 0 0 $A1 million for anti-drugs campaigner "What a diffrence a day makes" Thoughts on a millennium Building community in Cabramatta e cl it o r i al GENDER OFF THE AGENDA he role of women in ministry women. In 1915, almost two-thirds of not an issue. Yet even there we have should never again be an agen- the 60 educational department leaders failed the precedent set a century ago. Tda item. Not now. Now is the and more than 50 of the 60 Sabbath Of all who minister in various roles in time for equipping women for min- school department leaders were full-time Seventh-day Adventist min- istry, not in attempting to define roles. women (see Women in Ministry, istry Australia and New Zealand, only Women have played significant Andrews University Press, 1998). nine are women. Two minister in roles in the history of the South These were not token roles. local churches; only one is a church Pacific Division: Ellen White, co- But few women minister at any administrator. founder of the Seventh-day Adventist level in Australia and New Zealand. Now is the time to start mentoring Church; Margaret Caro, dentist and The process of due recognition could women (including Aboriginal and credentialled minister; Anna Hindson, be a long one, even in our supposed- Torres Strait Islanders, the ethnic, sin- RECORD editor for 34 years; and ly progressive division. The "battle," gles, young marrieds and retirees) for Lauretta Kress, doctor, who, with her according to some women in min- roles at all levels of the church. If husband, pioneered medical work in istry, has been frustrating. we're to minister effectively to all Australia and New Zealand. You can people (Revelation 14:6), we must find most of these names in the The ordination issue have a variety of ministers, male and Seventh-day Adventist Encyclopedia. The church rejected passing a reso- female, in a variety of roles. Will we one day find the following lution to allow the ordination of names: Sally Weber, first woman in women but, at the same time, Ministry and beyond the division to be offered a ministerial One woman in ministry even sug- internship (in 1996); Kylie Ward, most The role of women gested the church should change the recent winner of Avondale College's way it trains ministers. She said that Clifford Anderson Award, for excel- in ministry extends currently, ministerial training in the lence as a student and exhibition of way beyond the Seventh-day Adventist Church is mod- ministerial potential; and Agnes elled on married, middle-class males Bayak, first practising female minister issue of ordination. with 2.5 children. But what about in Papua New Guinea? having a minister and spouse lecture I hope so, but as ministers, not attempted to encourage women in together? she asks. What about stress- because they happen to be women. ministry. This has led to a perceived ing that full-time ministry may not be Women minister at various levels of degrading of the importance of ordi- a life-long job? the church in Europe and North nation. One woman in ministry says America (remember Dijana Daka, the the church devalues ordination by Gender and beyond female minister working for the allowing women to baptise, conduct It's time to heed the call of Paul: Seventh-day Adventist Church in ordinances, marry and preach, while "In Christ's family there can be no Kosovo who was forced to flee the disallowing them ordination. division into Jew and non-Jew, slave violence there and find safety in Another says ordination is losing its and free, male and female. Among us Albania?), and they have been for true meaning (recognition by the you are all equal" some time. church of a person's call by God to (Galatians 3:28, The More than 31 women were recog- ministry) and, instead, is now more Message). nised by the General Conference about gaining a title and credential. It's time to take (GC) and licensed to preach between gender off the agen- 1872 and 1915, the year of Ellen Ordination and beyond da and focus on ful- White's death. Three were elected GC The role of women in ministry filling the mission. treasurer before the turn of the centu- extends way beyond the issue of ry. In 1905, 20 out of 60 conference ordination. There are so many roles treasurer positions were held by within ministry where ordination is Brenton Stacey Next issue Official Paper Manuscripts Should be sent to The Editor, RECORD, South Pacific Division Signs Publishing Company, Warburton, Victoria 3799. ACN 000 003 930 Manuscripts or computer disks will only be returned if SEVENrIti-DAY AD ST accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope. The church in New Editor Bruce Manners CHURCH Phone: (03) 5966 9111 Senior assistant editor Lee Dunstan Fax: (03) 5966 9019 Zealand under the Editorial assistant Brenton Stacey Email [email protected] Editorial secretary Meryl McDonald-Gough Senior consulting editor Barry Oliver Subscriptions South Pacific Division, $A40.00 restructuring $NZ73.00. All other regions, $A70.00. Air mail rates on application. Order from Signs Publishing Company, proposal. Vol 104 No 2 Warburton, Victoria 3799, Australia. Printed weekly by Cover photo: L Laredo Signs Publishing Company. January 2 9 , 2 0 0 0 f 1 a s h p o i n t PNG LEADER DONATES BIBLES TO PRISONERS air Silas Atopare, churches. been neglected. administrators welcomed IOGovernor-General of In making the "I believe the Sir Silas' gift, which will Papua New Guinea (PNG), donation from word of God be made through the PNG has donated 1500 Bibles to his official dis- will lighten the Bible Society. inmates of the country's 17 cretionary prisons through After thanking the prisons. funds, Sir Silas the Bibles," he Governor General for his Sir Silas, a Seventh-day noted that for said. donation, Karan said Adventist, said his too long the Correctional God's Word, not money, is December 15 gift was spiritual needs Services Minister the essential ingredient in inspired by the prison of prison Mathias Karan fighting the country's ministries of Christian inmates had Sir Silas Atopare. and other prison social problems.—ANN PAU's distance degrees latest on the proposed North Koreans become Weet-Bix kids Pacific Adventist restructure of union University is proposing to boundaries by visiting The Adventist offer Doctorate and Masters www. adventist.org. au/ Development and degrees in philosophy by restructure Relief Agency distance education, and a (ADRA) and the Masters degree in theology. Sanitarium Health A working group is study- Women's scholarship winners Food Company sent ing financial implications. Moe Inane and Kylie a container load of Ward, theology students at Weet-Bix to North Avondale College, and Korea just before Presidential material Molly Ilisapeci, a primary Christmas. This is a As announced education student at Fulton follow-up shipment (Flashpoint, December 18, College, will receive to 15 tonnes of 1999) Pastor Chester women's ministries scholar- Weet-Bix sent in Stanley has been appointed ships from the General August. as president of the Trans- Conference. ADRA is one of Tasman Union the few relief agencies able Province, many of them Conference to to work in North Korea, orphans. replace the Mission boats which has suffered drought "Malnourished kids thrive retiring Pastor The Papua New Guinea conditions for the past on them," says the ADRA- Harold Harker. Union Mission will sail two three years. The Weet-Bix Swiss project director Albert Pastor Ken "new" boats this year to was sent to 200,000 chil- Mettler, "and quickly return Vogel (pic- reach Seventh-day dren under the age of 6 in to normal. It really gives tured), the Adventists in isolated the North Hwanghae them a lot of energy." president of the Western coastal areas of the coun- Australian Conference (WA) try. The Kamala (pictured), replaces Pastor Stanley as Province. The Stirling, a been awarded an honorary the South Queensland former Australian Navy 33- Order of Fiji for their key Conference (SQ1d) presi- foot fibreglass vessel, will roles as part of Operation dent. Pastor Murray House, be used in various coastal Open Heart teams work in pastor of the Caboolture, areas for assigned periods Fiji. During 1999 the SQ1d, church is the newly of the year. Adventist Development appointed WA president. and Relief Agency and the Sydney Adventist Hospital Church restructure on web Volunteers receive honour organised their ninth heart- What will the shape of a 42-foot steel hulled ves- Two Australian volun- team visit to Fiji. The team the church be by the end sel, will be used as a sea teers, Annette Baldwin and has treated a total of 232 of this year? Find out the ambulance in the Sepik Dr Alan Gale, have each cases. RECORD brings the best coverage of your church family in the South Pacific. January 29, 2000 newsfront MILLION-DOLLAR CHRISTMAS PRESENT FOR ANTI•DRUGS CAMPAIGNER hen Margaret McKay, a mem- and studying various approaches her son. Wber of the Port Macquarie, and models of treatment. The re- NSW, church told the media in June Mrs McKay hopes to involve the habilitation 1999 that she planned to raise a mil- Adventist Church, as she plans to centre will lion dollars to help victims of drug promote its health message in the operate abuse, people scoffed. Especially treatment. She has offers of help along simi- considering she had only $A70 in from her local church and associates lar lines to the bank.
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