Adventists call actions to allow women's ordinations 'mistakes'
Leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church have said that recent decisions by two regional bodies to allow ordination of female pastors were “serious mistakes,” and women who are ordained won’t be recognized—at least for now.
“They directly challenge two world church decisions on the matter of ordination,” reads a statement passed by a 264–25 vote on October 16 during the Annual Council meeting in Silver Spring, Maryland. “They create doubts about the importance of collective decision making as a basic feature of denominational life.”