[Magdalen] Church as Personality Billy Graham

[Jay Weigel]

This is from the Wikipedia article on the Church of the Nazarene, but
attributed to the mauaal for the church, so I guess they do ordain women. I
was always told they did, from earliest times, although in practice they
 are so dang conservative that I would guess few to none actually pastor a
church. They do, however, hold positions of authority, and one has even
been General Superintendent.

"The Church of the Nazarene has two orders of ordained ministry: the
ordained elder and the ordained deacon. The ordained elder is a person,
either male or female, who has been set apart for a ministry of "Word and
Sacrament." Their primary assignment is to preach the Word, administer the
sacraments, and lead the local church. The ordained deacon is a man or
woman who has been set apart for full-time ministry in a role other than
"Word and Sacrament." Those eligible to be ordained as deacons include
those who are called to a full-time ministry of music, Christian social
ministry, or director of Christian education, or another ministry that does
not typically involve leading a congregation. The church also has district
licensed ministers. Usually these are persons who are on the path toward
ordination or who are strongly considering a call to ordained ministry. A
licensed minister may, in some cases, be the pastor of a church."

On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, the chaplain at Rockingham was Church of the Nazarine, and they did
> NOT ordain women...
>
> > On Apr 5, 2015, at 9:35 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > IFSG was right there with Church of the Nazarene in terms of female
> clergy.
> > They were really the kick starters. Some of the African-American groups
> > also, which is one thing that led to the split in the Pentecostal
> movement
> > and the parallel development of the church of God in Christ (AA) and the
> > Assembly of God (white).
> >
> >> On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> From: Cantor03--- via Magdalen
> >>
> >> My personal favorite among all these personalities is Aimee Semple
> >>> Mcpherson,
> >>> founded of the Four Square Gospel Tabernacles.  At least churches  of
> that
> >>> denomination still exist.
> >>
> >> Their Los Angeles Temple is equidistant between the Episcopal Church
> >> Center and Jon +Bruno's old restaurant on Sunset Blvd.
> >>
> >> It was distinguished by having two towers supporting a Hammock Antenna
> for
> >> their radio broadcasts. I believe they ran KRKD.
> >>
> >> There was  FourSquare Gospel congregation in Bellefonte PA -- they
> bought
> >> 30 minutes every Sunday for their worship service. The Pastor was a
> woman
> >> -- and was there at least when I started Penn State. in 1970. It would
> seem
> >> the FourSquare people were way ahead of us latecomers on women clergy.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Jim Guthrie
> >>
>