Kathy,

Amen! If I've learned one thing in 11 years of gift-based ministry it is that God is a whole lot bigger and wiser than we are and immensely capable of doing what we do not imagine or expect. Often God reminds me of Paul's words in 1 Cor. 1:14-15, "The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment." 

I believe God is urgent about finishing the spreading of the Gospel. If God can use me to do what He is doing through me, then He can use a woman as a pastor if He wants to. We need to be recognizing His working and following instead of being unreasoning zealots and obstacles to the Gospel.