Southern Baptist Women Lead Where They Can

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. She picked Criswell College because it was where her pastor was a dean. She wanted to teach the Bible the way he did. King thought at the time she only had two options for ministry -- marrying a pastor or serving as an overseas missionary.