Potchefstroom - The Reformed Church in South Africa is divided over whether women should minister in the church, Netwerk24 reported on Wednesday.
"There are people in the synod that pray a woman never stands at the pulpit. And so are there people that pray that a woman does stand there," Reverend Sarel Cilliers, from the Waterberg congregation, was quoted as saying.
The church's synod was meeting in Potchefstroom to discuss matters of the church.
After a previous sitting in 2012, a report was written on essential and non-essential matters in the church, Netwerk24 reported.
The report was tabled at the synod on Tuesday.
According to Reverend Douw Breed, chairperson of the synod sitting until 15 January, non-essential matters were not less important, but rather matters which the different churches could decide over themselves.
Breed said the matter of whether women could be at the helm of a church should be decided at the synod or be referred to a smaller synod.
