10 May 2023 | Pastor Linda Biswas, who had previously been commissioned by a vote from the 1990 General Conference, was ordained on Sabbath, May 6, 2023, at Azure Hills Adventist Church in California. Present at the ordination ceremony were Pastor Jonathan Park, Southeastern California Conference (SECC) President, and Pastor Patty Marruffo, Executive Secretary (SECC), […]
March 31, 2017: A survey of Adventists in the United States indicates that 86 percent support women serving as pastors and agree that these women should be ordained in the same way that men are. Less than 9 percent oppose the idea. Asked if they would support “having a female pastor in my own church,” […]
By Jack Hoehn Boulders of granite left in fields are all that is left of mighty rivers of ice that covered much of the world thousands of years ago. They are now strewn over northern Washington state, relics of an age now long past and a climate that no longer exists. Are some Adventists living […]
