CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Rebeca Montemayor Lopez is reportedly the first woman to be ordained to the ministry by a Baptist church in Mexico.
A six-member delegation of Baptist women from the United States attended the historic ordination council and ceremony at Shalom Baptist Community in Mexico City March 24-25.
The delegation was sponsored by the Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America. The team included women representing the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, Baptist Women in Ministry and American Baptist Women’s Ministries. Ordained Baptist women from Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Cuba also attended.
The step is likely to spark controversy, according to the leader of the U.S. delegation.
“This church has taken a courageous and risky step which will open doors for Baptist women but which will also serve to separate them from others who do not support the ordination of women,” said LeDayne McLeese Polaski, an ordained woman who works as managing director of the Charlotte, N.C.,-based Baptist Peace Fellowship
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