Moderators Gregory Matthews Posted May 16, 2015 Moderators Share Posted May 16, 2015 See: http://spectrummagazine.org/article/2015/05/12/breaking-berlin-central-german-conference-votes-implement-womens-ordination NOTE: For those who read German, the above contains a link to the original report. Quote Gregory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Administrators Tom Wetmore Posted May 17, 2015 Administrators Share Posted May 17, 2015 BREAKING: Berlin-Central German Conference Votes to Implement Women's Ordination 12 May 2015 | JARED WRIGHT Print Email Tweet FB ShareThis Select Language Afrikaans Albanian Arabic Armenian Azerbaijani Basque Belarusian Bengali Bosnian Bulgarian Catalan Cebuano Chichewa Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Croatian Czech Danish Dutch Esperanto Estonian Filipino Finnish French Galician Georgian German Greek Gujarati Haitian Creole Hausa Hebrew Hindi Hmong Hungarian Icelandic Igbo Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese Javanese Kannada Kazakh Khmer Korean Lao Latin Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Malagasy Malay Malayalam Maltese Maori Marathi Mongolian Myanmar (Burmese) Nepali Norwegian Persian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Romanian Russian Serbian Sesotho Sinhala Slovak Slovenian Somali Spanish Sundanese Swahili Swedish Tajik Tamil Telugu Thai Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Uzbek Vietnamese Welsh Yiddish Yoruba Zulu Powered by Translate On Sunday, May 10, delegates from the Berlin-Central German Conference of Seventh-day Adventists voted during the conference's quadrennial constituency session in Leipzig, Germany to implement women's ordination. Dr. Andreas Bochman, Head of the MA in counseling program at Friedensau Adventist University in Germany and visiting lecturer of pastoral counseling at Newbold College in England, attended the event, and said that an among the extensive proposals for the next four years presented by the conference planning committee came a sentence saying that with immediate effect, the conference will start ordaining female pastors who are ready for ordination. Bochmann added that a more literal translation of the German statement into English would read, "Women's ordination will speedily be implemented if it lends itself in regards to an employed female pastor." There were delegates present who moved to delete the ordination clause from the next four years' plans, arguing that the conference should not force the issue when the General Conference will vote in a little more than a month on whether divisions may proceed with ordination regionally. The motion was overwhelmingly defeated, Bochmann said. Others proposed toning down the language, a motion that was narrowly defeated. Compared to other agenda items, the deliberations on ordaining women took relatively little time. Some noted that current church policy (pending the upcoming vote in San Antonio, Texas) is that unions hold final say in approving ordination candidates. The North German Union Conference (Berlin-Central German Conference's parent company) voted to ordain women in 2012. The statement approved by the conference has generated considerable discussion on various Facebook pages among German Adventists. Report (in German) from Adventgemeinde Neuenhagen here: http://www.sta-neuenhagen.de/was/content-layouts/item/501-delegiertenversammlung-synode-2015.html More details as they become available. EDIT: Bochmann notes, "The delegates did not vote women's ordination (as the title originally implied), but voted to "speedily implement" (zügig umsetzen). According to our policies delegates at a conference would not be able to "vote for or against" WO, as the decision on ordinations is a prerogative of the Union Conference." Quote "Absurdity reigns and confusion makes it look good." "Sinless perfection is such a shallow goal." "I love God only as much as the person I love the least." *Forgiveness is always good news. And that is the gospel truth. (And finally, the ideas expressed above are solely my person views and not that of any organization with which I am associated.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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