In an interview at Palm Springs Seventh-day Adventist Church, the Ps. Jan Paulsen said the global church "needs to find a way to sign off on it. If they don't, those (regional) conferences that want to ordain women will find themselves acting in a rebellious way against the global church. That is not healthy."
The Inland area is part of the Southeastern California Conference, which in 2000 became the first Adventist conference in the world to grant the same ministerial credential to men and women. The credential is valid only within the conference.
The Los Angeles-based Southern California Conference took a similar step in 2005.
The Southeastern California Conference, which is based in Riverside, comprises Riverside, San Bernardino, Orange, San Diego and Imperial counties.
The Seventh-day Adventist church, founded in the United States by Ellen G. White in 1863, has never taken a position on the biblical grounds opposing the ordination of women, Paulsen said.
Some individuals, however, believe that scripture prohibits women from teaching men, he said.
Paulsen asked women who feel called to ministry to be patient as the global church seeks consensus. Paulsen has said in the past that he supports ordaining women.
"I know I'm asking a lot of women ... because they feel they have waited a long time already," he said.
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