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(RNS/AP) Few congregations could function without the work of female members. Still, there is tension in the Southern Baptist Convention over the role of women.
Jacki King, the women’s minister at Second Baptist Church in Conway, Arkansas, first felt a call to ministry as a college student. She decided to follow it, giving up her pre-med major and her spot on a college softball team for ministry training at a small Bible school with a mostly male student body.