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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2012
In many cases, people just need to experience a woman pastor. Lack of experience tends to reaffirm previously held notions and opinions on the topic. I have had church members tell me “I did not vote for you when the vote was taken, but I would vote for you now.” They just needed a chance to see it, hear it, and experience it. When the myths are dispelled, people are able to see that I am just a person who has been equipped and called by God to be a pastor – and I happen to be female.
Traci Bunn Powers, Portsmouth, Virginia, 2008A BAPTIST PROFILE
In 1893, Helen Barrett Montgomery joined Susan B. Anthony in sharing a dream for bettering the conditions faced by multitudes of women in her day. That year she formed a chapter of the Woman’s Educational Union (WEIU) in Rochester, New York, dedicated to serving poor women and children. An advocate for women’s education, she became the first woman elected to any public office in Rochester, serving on the Rochester School Board for ten years. She advocated for creation of kindergartens, vocational training in schools, and health education. She also raised funds to enable women to study at the University of Rochester and to assist missionaries in starting Christian colleges for women in other countries where none existed.
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