President's Message

Linda Wright Wysong Becker

Welcome to the Association of Adventist Women! We are delighted that you are learning more about us whether you have stopped at our booth at General Conference, visited our Web site for the first time, or connected with a friend who has told you about our organization. This is our first electronic newsletter, and we are looking forward to improved communication around the world through this means. Read More

Welcome to The Adventist Woman
first digital edition

Welcome to the first digital edition of The Adventist Woman. After an 18-month hiatus, The Adventist Woman returns with a new format (digital) and new method of delivery (your e-mail inbox and also posted on the AAW Web site, aaw.cc/GetCurrent/News.html). If you know someone who should receive TAW, please send us the e-mail address.(http://www.aaw.cc/feedback.html).

Commissioned Ministers Can Lead North American Conferences

Seventh-day Adventist conferences and missions in North America can be led by an ordained or a commissioned minister, members of the North American Division Executive Committee voted overwhelmingly on November 7, 2010, during year-end business meetings. Read More

Trans-European Division and Ordination of Women

In February 2010, the General Conference asked the church's world divisions to carry out a survey among the leadership in their constituency to gain a clear understanding of their position on women’s ordination to the gospel ministry. As part of that process, the following observations were shared with the divisions by the General Conference. Read More

Inter-American Division Names Women as Leaders

Largest world division has first female general VP, seven other female leaders

Seventh-day Adventists in Inter-America, the church’s largest division, elected a new leadership team on the evening of July 1, 2010, including the first woman to serve as a general vice president. Dr. Myrna Costa, currently president of Antillean Adventist University in Puerto Rico, will move to division headquarters in Miami, Florida, to take up her new assignment. Read More

Observations from the AAW Booth at the 2010 General Conference

Helen Thompson Zolber

“I’d like that button that says, ‘Women’s Ordination: the Time is Ripe’,” was one of the most frequent requests at the GC booth of the Association of Adventist Women. We responded with 4,000 by Wednesday, ordered another 4,000 (which arrived Sabbath afternoon), and they were nearly all gone by closing time late Sabbath evening. Shaped like big peaches rimmed with white, the buttons had two kinds of messages: the ordination one, and one that simply said, “Pray for more Laborers, Women Ministers.” Read More

LLU Chaplaincy Program

Raelene Brower

“Called to ministry.” What does it mean? For Adventist women around the world, it is increasingly a call to action, a compelling excitement that God can use our talents, our time, our energy, and mostly our spiritual gifts to be of service to Him. At Loma Linda University in California (USA), a graduate degree program in the School of Religion has been specifically created to educate those of us who feel called to minister to hurting people in a health care setting. Read More

Farewell

Louise Hill

Betty Hogan Howard

Thais Thrasher Sadoyama

Dorothy Eaton Watts