Sister Webb,

Junia maybe an epicene name, but more likely its a sobriquet (nickname) for the very common name Junious. The Roman's 16:7 text is certainly not evidence that the church was ordaining women as elders.

Ministerial licenses were granted regularly to women working for the Seventh-day Adventist  church.  Women were never ordained as elders and they never served as elders.  They never bore the honorific title, Elder.  Elder and deacon are the only ecclesiastical titles used by Adventists in the 19th  and early 20th century.   Even today candidates for ordination  to the gospel ministry must be ordained elders.

Sister Webb, do you think the new Testament says it is all right to ordain women as elders?