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In Australia, Adventists Appoint Woman Pastor to Ministerial Association
Adventist review ^ | 1 october 2021 | Lorraine Atchia,

Posted on 10/08/2021 1:38:40 AM PDT by Cronos

The Australian Union Conference (AUC) of the Seventh-day Adventist Church has appointed Lyndelle Peterson as a part-time Ministerial Association associate secretary after the AUC Executive Committee created the position in May 2021.

Peterson is the first female Seventh-day Adventist pastor to be employed to work across all areas of the Ministerial Association, including ministry development, resourcing, and working with conference Ministerial leaders to develop and implement strategies to support and inspire pastors around Australia.

...The AUC Executive Committee also voted to introduce a Women in Pastoral Ministry (WiPM) scholarship, which will assist women already studying or thinking about studying ministry at Avondale University or Mamarapha College with their tuition fees.

....AUC president Terry Johnson said he is encouraged that church administration in Australia is making these appointments and showing support of women in pastoral ministry and leadership positions.

“The AUC wants to show that we value the contribution women make to ministry. It is important to have good representation across our pastoral team, at a union level, conference level, and local church level,” Johnson said.

“Having Lyndelle and Murray working in the Ministerial Association and introducing a Women in Pastoral Ministry Scholarship are good steps on the journey of support for our pastors and churches.”

(Excerpt) Read more at adventistreview.org ...


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1 posted on 10/08/2021 1:38:40 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: Cronos

Looks like they join the ELCA and get tattoos.


2 posted on 10/08/2021 1:59:56 AM PDT by Norski (Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil. - Thomas Mann)
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To: Cronos

Maybe they’ll go full homosexual, like the Catholics?


3 posted on 10/08/2021 2:19:33 AM PDT by Philsworld
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To: Philsworld

You mean like the American Adventists :)


4 posted on 10/08/2021 2:22:26 AM PDT by Cronos ( One cannot desire freedom from the Cross, especially when one is especially chosen for the cross)
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To: Cronos

More like this, Crohn’sos. Overall, the priests of the RCC are GAY. They love men (and children). They are sick and perverted. 330,000 French children abused over a 70 year period? SICK and PERVERTED.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/major-report-expose-sex-abuse-frances-catholic-church-80408030

Vatican cops bust drug-fueled gay orgy at home of cardinal’s aide
https://nypost.com/2017/07/05/vatican-cops-bust-drug-fueled-gay-orgy-at-cardinals-apartment/

Four in five Vatican priests are gay, book claims
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/12/four-in-five-vatican-priests-are-gay-book-claims

Crohn’sos, it’s your church. Own it.


5 posted on 10/08/2021 2:47:16 AM PDT by Philsworld
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To: Philsworld

https://adventist.news/news/sexual-assault-in-the-christian-home

https://www.ajc.com/news/crime/apd-multiple-victims-molested-at-west-end-summer-camp/JG7NUXDYL5AXNBCJLHBSJ46EE4/

https://www.ajc.com/news/crime/apd-multiple-victims-molested-at-west-end-summer-camp/JG7NUXDYL5AXNBCJLHBSJ46EE4/

https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/observer-west-front-page/-it-hurts-western-ja-clergy-members-agonising-over-st-james-pastor-s-arrest-on-sex-charges_223941

Members of the clergy across western Jamaica say they are hurting from the latest sex scandal to rock the church following the arrest of 39-year-old Jason Rose, pastor of New Life Apostolic Church in Montego Bay, charged for raping a 15-year-old congregant.

Pastor Charles Brevitt of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, who made it clear that he is not implying Rose is guilty of the allegations, however argued that even though the church has remained resilient, it has been stigmatised by these egregious sex scandals.


6 posted on 10/08/2021 4:09:35 AM PDT by Cronos ( One cannot desire freedom from the Cross, especially when one is especially chosen for the cross)
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To: Cronos
What's the deal here? Ellen G. White (click here) was a principal founder of the SDA denomination. What's so unusual about a woman having an unbiblical influence in a SDA church as a dominant female pastor-elder-teacher? (SDA is only about a hundred years old, maybe just a little older than the Azusa Street-originated Pentecostal charismatics.)
7 posted on 10/08/2021 4:46:23 AM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: Cronos

It happens in every church, Crohn’sos. The SDA church is no exception. However, YOUR church is systemically HOMOSEXUAL and full of PEDIFILE PREDATORS, and there is a long, documented history of child molestation, rape, and coverup. To my knowledge, if the SDA church found out about such an occurrence, that person is kicked out and referred to law enforcement. Your church just moves them around and the priest just continues to molest children somewhere else. You know it’s true, Crohn’sos.


8 posted on 10/08/2021 4:48:25 AM PDT by Philsworld
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To: imardmd1

158 years, actually (formed in 1863). When was your church formed?


9 posted on 10/08/2021 4:51:57 AM PDT by Philsworld
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To: Cronos
Peterson is the first female Seventh-day Adventist pastor to be employed to work across all areas of the Ministerial Association

Can collapsing apostacy be far behind?

10 posted on 10/08/2021 9:27:12 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. --Matthew 24:12)
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To: Philsworld
When was your church formed?

Doesn't matter when a church was formed. In the letters to the seven churches, the threat of having their lampstands removed focused on their continued faithfulness and love, not their date of origin.

11 posted on 10/08/2021 11:19:40 AM PDT by aimhigh (THIS is His commandment . . . . 1 John 3:23)
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To: Philsworld
When was your church formed?

My "church" is titled "The Ekklesia("church" in the Greek) of the First-Born, and the locale of its sole headquarters is God's Heaven alone. It was formed In 33 Anno Domini, forty-nine days after the resurrection of its High Priest's resurrection back to life out of the dead ones, ten days after His ascension into His Father's Heaven, where He was re-seated there on His Throne at His Father's right hand, from whence He rules His Assembly of Spirit-born Citizen-Servants.

Its first autonomous independent earthly regular local gathering was instituted that first day of the week by the induction of ten dozen of the High Priest's followers, who being loyally obedient were gathered together according to His command. They were begotten in the spirit realm by a new kind of birth conferred on each disciple by the Holy Ghost Who descended upon the assembly as a whole and into each of them individually, coexisting in the human flesh that harbored each one's soul, thus creating a new generation of Spirit-born servants indwelt by the Personality of The Holy Ghost. Together, they constituted the Bride of Christ, a unique entity consisting only of a growing body of regenerated faith-born disciple-servants of Jesus their Owner-Master, each of whom possesses eternal never-ceasing absolute life.

I am one of them, knowingly being a host in my fleshly vehicle of The Holy Ghost, may His Name be forever blessed. I am a constituent of yet another of the same kind of authorized independent autonomous local assembly of professing regenerated faith-saved disciple-servant-priest-heralds and Friends of Jesus, our Anointed Lord and Master, who perpetuate the practices of indoctrination in the teachings and fellowship of the apostles, observing he Remembrance Supper of our Lord by the breaking of bread to show forth His Death until He comes, by prayers, and by mutual care-giving, all done under the guidance of the Holy Ghost Who is assisted by a plurality of recognized spiritually mature elders, appointed by a consensus of the gathering, teaching and keeping watchfully secure whatsoever He The Anointed One has commanded, and nothing else.

It is my sincere desire that you too have been accepted in The Beloved by His Father through regeneration in the Spirit through faith alone in the Jesus of the Bible and the shedding of His Blood alone, and have received His promise of never-ending eternal life, growing in it through The Father's bestowal of a justified practice of holiness of mind and conduct, meeting regularly with such other children of The Father to govern as much of His earthly estate as he has apportioned you, so that you may ultimately receive His Son's undiluted approval with commensurate rewards in addition to His freely given everlasting life.

12 posted on 10/08/2021 4:27:45 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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