The Association of Adventist Women submits the following recommendations to:

1. To the Seventh-day Adventist Church, that it ensure respect among all members by implementing and enforcing appropriate sexual harassment polices in all Conference, educational, and health institutions; said policy to include annual staff education and orientation to the policy, and the appointment/election of an appropriately trained female ombudsman available for assistance as needed.
2. 2. To all Seventh-day Adventist educational institutions, that they take special measures to educate their students to recognize abuse of all kinds and address it constructively.
3. 3. To Seventh-day Adventist Unions, that they institute an annual abuse prevention education program for all administrators, pastors, and local churches.
4. 4. To the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary, that it ensure an accepting, respectful treatment of its women students, educating both men and women regarding appropriate behaviors between the sexes.
5. 5. To Conference presidents, that they actively seek to increase the number of women pastors in their churches.
6. 6. To Conference presidents, that they encourage the ordination of women elders in local churches so that the majority of their constituencies have women with whom to counsel.
7. 7. To church entities, that they work to increase the number of women serving on conference committees and in the local church.

The Association of Adventist Women commends the following:

1. Pacific Union College, for selecting a woman as president.
2. La Sierra University Church, for selecting a woman as head pastor.
3. The Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary, for inviting Hyveth Williams to teach hermeneutics.
4. Jan Paulsen, president of the General Conference, for his message of inclusiveness to the Annual Council as reported by Adventist Review in which he stated, “In God’s family, we don’t value people on the basis of wealth, position, status, education, race, gender, color of skin, language, culture, or dietary habits. There must be no sense of superiority or inferiority in any of these.” According to the Review, “In calling for the addition of more women in leadership roles, Paulsen also turned to Ellen White’s counsel from the book, Evangelism, p. 469: ‘When a great and decisive work is to be done, God chooses men and women to do this work, and it will see the loss if the talents of both are not combined.’ To those words, he added, ‘we have a large segment [of Adventists] that needs to be brought in from the cold’.” The Association of Adventist Women urges President Paulsen to work urgently toward the full implementation of his statements.

The Association of Adventist Women expresses special appreciation to:

1. Spectrum and Adventist Forum for inviting AAW to participate in this celebration of their 40th anniversary.
2. Brent Stanyer, Bonnie Dwyer, and Jan Malin for their planning of this conference and their open collaboration and communication with the Association of Adventist Women.
3. Nancy Lecourt for initiating dialogue between the Association of Adventist Women and Adventist Forum and for her efforts and those of her colleagues and students at Pacific Union College for planning the programs we enjoy this weekend.

• For the establishment of “Babyklappe” and support for women through counseling.

• For the appoint of a woman vice president.
• For his inclusive spirit and active pursuit of discussion through the “Let’s Talk” conversations with young people, women, and church pastors.

• For the appointment of a woman treasurer and two women as church pastors.

• To encourage the appointment of women to decision- and policy-making groups at all levels within the church organization.

• Encourage all local and union conferences to celebrate the contributions of women to the church during women’s history month annually during the month of March.

• To encourage equalizing the credentials of all pastors.

• A request that the Church officially apologize to Merikay (Silver) McLeod and Lorna Clevenger Tobler.

• To begin correcting the great disproportion of women pastors by sponsoring women to the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary.

• To encourage congregations to increase the opportunities for women pastors.