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Worldwide Mennonites\n\nAs a child she dreamed of being amissionary nurse.Instead she earned adegree in English and secondaryeducation from Messiah College inGrantham,Pa.,a master of divinity fromEastern Mennonite Seminary and a Ph.D.in religion from Temple University inPhiladelphia.Over 20 years with theMCC she spent considerable time in theCongo and other remote locations.  \nand Brethren in Christ churches in Canada,the U.S.and Europe.(The internationalmeeting)is like a big family reunion,butthey want to be family in between,too.Ithink for us the big challenge is figuringout how to do that.”  \nIn Bulawayo,Zimbabwe this August Dr.Nancy Heisey from Harrisonburg,Virginiawill be installed as the first femalepresident of the Mennonite World Confer-ence.(The conference represents morethan a million Mennonite and Brethern inChrist church members from culturesaround the globe.)She will also becomethe first North American president of the78 year old conference in many years.  \nHer father,the Rev.J.Wilmer Heisey,now retired in Mt.Joy,Pa.,added,\"Ifthere is one thing you learn fromexperience such as she has had,it is thatyou don't have Western answers for all theissues.You share and find the way.”  \n\"There is a real strong sense from thechurches in the south in particular thatthey want to do more than meet every sixyears,\"said the new president.“Theywant to work together with Mennonite  \nThe election is historic for two reasons.Few women lead local churches in thisunion ofcongregations from twocommunions,and there is even moreresistance to women's leadership in theirAfrican congregations than in theirtraditional European and North Americanchurches.  \nFriends and colleagues say NancyHeisey is well equipped to find amulticultural path.  \n'There Is No Vocation Crisis—We Are Here!'  \nEven so,Dr.Heisey's role as the firstwoman to lead the worldwide conferencewas foretold in a dream by a Congoleseminister at a 2003 conference meeting inGuatemala City,Guatemala.  \nBy LaVonne Althouse  \nThese words in purple on a six-foot high banner that dominated the Friends Meetingworship center in Center City Philadelphia,Pennsylvania,greeted hundreds of womenand men assembled on May 3 to hear two Roman Catholic women,ordained as priestslast summer,again ask their Church to affirm ordination of women.  \nDiversity will be the focus of her workwith the conference,said Dr.Heisey in aninterview with John Rutter of theLancaster,Pennsylvania New Era inFebruary.Though its Germanic roots lie inthe West,Anabaptist culture is nowcentered below the equator in Africa,Central and South America,Indonesia andAsia,she explained.  \nThe two,Rev.Drs.Ida Raming and IrisMueller,were completing a month ofspeaking engagements across UnitedStates sponsored by the Roman CatholicWomen's Ordination Conference andCatholics Speak Out.  Two of sevenwomen ordained on the Feast of SS.Peterand Paul 2002(“illicitly”from theviewpoint of the Vatican),they hadpresented a petition to Pope John XXIIin 1963 protesting the rule that womenwere forbidden to study Roman Catholictheology—following a similar protest in1962from a Swiss woman.Their formalpaper on the issue,written in 1964,saidWe Won't Keep Silent Any Longer.  \nfrom many countries around the world toopen the diaconate and priesthood towomen.But nothing happened.  \nIn 1969 Dr.Raming completed hergroundbreaking doctoral study of thehistory of the church's discriminationagainstwomen from Early Christianwritings through the Middle Ages.Shedemonstrated conclusively that exclusionof women from the priesthood is based onconcepts of the essential and ethicalinferiority of women.The second creationstory in Genesis,believed to say womanwas created from the first man's rib andcommitted the first sin,is the foundationfor the Church's continuing discriminationagainst women,said the stu","cbCaieqWbSsi0YRf","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaieqWbSsi0YRf","pdf",3371948,"English","# Woman to Head Worldwide Mennonites\n## Two Lifetimes of Seeking Reform","[{\"question\":\"Who is Nancy Heisey and what role does she assume?\",\"answer\":\"Nancy Heisey is installed as the first female president of the Mennonite World Conference and becomes the first North American president in many years.\"},{\"question\":\"Why is the election described as historic?\",\"answer\":\"The text says it is historic because few women lead local churches in this Mennonite union and there is strong resistance to women’s leadership in many African congregations.\"},{\"question\":\"What motivates the featured calls for women’s ordination in the issue?\",\"answer\":\"The issue explains that petitions and formal arguments challenge restrictions on ordination and cite the belief that church discrimination is rooted in ideas about women’s inferiority, supported by historical and scriptural discussion.\"}]","Woman's Pulpit - Part 1 - Historical report and interview | PDF"]