Noticeably other World Divisions, except Southern Pacific, have been notably silent on the issue.  The issue might no longer be women's ordination or not, but the matter of everyone being on the same page at the same time in the same place in the sake of unity.  Yet there might be a case for unity within diversity.  In the English-speaking Caribbean, it might hardly matter. I know several female pastors in our union who minister as well as men do. It seems unusual that God is using gender in ministry separately to gather the same results of preaching the gospel.  Perhaps we might one day have different classes of ordination--ordination as evangelists, ordination as pastors, etc.  There might be a classification coming. Might it not be possible to have preachers and pastors of the highest caliber who are women? Then why should gender disqualify them?

Sylvan Lashley, Ed.D., J.D.
University of the Southern Caribbean
Business School Dean/Former president & interim president