Others are more open. Canton's First Christian Church leans toward the latter. Hard line congregations generally hold that women should take no leadership role in the church. They are not allowed to teach adult classes unless they are gender specific classes for women. Women are permitted to teach children and lead other groups for women.
Open congregations accept women in nearly every congregational role.
In some evangelical churches women serve as preachers, elders, and in most other roles. Many main-line and charismatic denominations take the position that God's gifting is not gender specific. For them, a woman may serve in whatever way God has gifted her. To refuse to do so, they say, would be to assume authority God has not given. First Christian Church believes God permits women to serve and lead in many capacities.