The woman minister is endowed with maternal characteristics projecting a mother or sister image. Female ministers are by nature concerned about spiritual food, exercise, and rest to assure growth. Their intuition is helpful in detecting and healing hurts. Expressing love, compassion and understanding comes naturally. Some males are more comfortable in expressing their failures to a woman, feeling it unmanly to reveal their weaknesses to another male.
Women can be more intimate in their relationship with one of their own sex.
Youth who alienate their own parents often seek help from a minister who has built an understanding relationship. All this is most gratifying. God is an Equal Rights Employer. One standard is set for both female and male Christians. Requirements for baptism, sanctification, communion, and foot washing are alike for everyone.