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Called By God from the SDA Theological Seminary in Michigan. Ordained ministers and congregation members streamed down the aisles to participate in the ordination prayer.2 Ordination at Garden Grove, California Church in 1996 Associate pastors Margo Pitrone and Jared Fulton were ordained to ministry at the Garden Grove, California, church in July 1996. Ordination at Loma Linda University Church in 1997 Margaret (Peg) Hempe was a pioneer woman pastor at Loma Linda University Church in the 1970s under Pastor Bill Loveless. Peg served as associate pastor there for many years, and was ordained to the gospel ministry in the Loma Linda University Church in 1997. Able with God’s help to endure the uncertain fortunes of a woman in ministry, Pastor Hempe has served as a role model for younger women called to follow her footsteps. Equal credential for men and women pastors adopted by Confernces After studying the subject for several years, the Southeastern California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists in March 2002 adopted an equal credential for men and women pastors, the ordination-commissioning credential. Soon afterward the Arizona Conference adopted the same credential.The Northern California Conference Constituency in May 2002 passed a motion requesting the General Conference to reconsider ordaining women to the ministry, with an amendment calling for NCC to adopt an equal credential for its women and men pastors. Women have been recipients of the Ordination-Commissioning Credential, along with men in ministry in their conference.The men have declared that they do not want a status that the women who minister alongside them cannot have. Several women ministers included in chapter 9 (working in one of the conferences named above) have the Ordination-Commissioning Credential. 1 Hallie Wilson is officially retired, but still works part time as Assistant to the President for Women Pastors in the Southeastern California Conference. 2 Madelynn Jones-Haldeman passed away on January 28, 2005. 166

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