First Mennonite Brethren women ordained

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WINNIPEG, Man.—This spring Grace Kim and Bev Peters became the first women ever to be ordained for pastoral ministry by the Canadian Mennonite Brethren church.

Many see it as a direct outcome of a 2006 Calgary resolution on women in ministry leadership. The resolution blessed individual churches to call and affirm gifted women and men to serve in ministry and pastoral leadership, according to their own discernment of Scripture, conviction and practice. That affirmation of women now includes ordination.—Mennonite Brethren Herald

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