Women Pastors

The big-city denominational office had sent a female pastor to serve in an old country church - and the local elders were having a hard time accepting the new minister. But they wanted to be gracious, so the board invited the pastor to join them on a fishing trip.

Once at the lake, the group got into a boat and motored out some fifty yards from shore when the pastor announced, apologetically, "I'm so sorry - I've forgotten my fishing rod."

So she stepped out of the boat, walked across the water to the bank, and picked up her equipment, and walked on the water back to the boat.

"Just like a woman," one of the elders muttered. "Always forgetting something."