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This is What a Leader Looks Like: Natalia Alvarez

May 16, 2017 by Naomi Hall

“This is What a Leader Looks Like” is a series adapted from an interview project on women in leadership conducted by Naomi Hall. Naomi recently served as a student intern with the Center for Transformation Leadership, a joint endeavor of the Free Methodist Church of Southern California and Azusa Pacific University. Meet Natalia Álvarez. Natalia is from […]

Filed Under: Personal Stories, Women and the Church Tagged With: Natalia Alvarez, woman pastor

This is What a Leader Looks Like: Seminary Professor Edition

May 2, 2017 by Naomi Hall

Welcome to “This is What a Leader Looks Like”, a series adapted from an interview project conducted by Naomi Hall. Naomi recently served as a student intern with the Center for Transformation Leadership, a joint endeavor of the Free Methodist Church and Azusa Pacific University. Today’s interview is with Janette Ok, a Teaching Pastor at Ekko Church and Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies, New Testament at Azusa Pacific Seminary. She writes “In the fifth grade, I attended a camp for Korean-American youth. At the end of the camp, I received a “paper plate” award that read, ‘Janette is bound to become a Sae Jong camp counselor someday due to her leadership abilities.’ That was the first time I saw myself a leader and, ever since, I have tried to discover what it meant to be a great one.”

Filed Under: Personal Stories Tagged With: Janette Ok, leadership in the church, woman pastor

The Burden of the Exceptional Female Pastor

June 16, 2016 by Robbie Cansler

There is a phrase that continues to be repeated by those in leadership when asked how local churches might be encouraged to be more open to having a female pastor. This phrase is “If we have exceptional female pastors to point to, other churches will consider hiring a female pastor.”

At first observation this phrase seems supportive and maybe even a little bit like common sense. If you see an exceptional pastor, why wouldn’t you want that for yourself and your church?

Only, what happens when a female pastor is not exceptional? Should a woman’s merits, talent, gifts, or even her chemistry with a specific congregation be used as a plumb line by which all other women in ministry are measured? Are the only women capable of being great pastors those viewed as “exceptional”?

Filed Under: church leadership, sexism and abuse in the church, Women and the Church, women in church leadership Tagged With: Robbie Cansler, woman pastor

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