After all, you said that some of them have been meeting with you for several years and have long been ready to repent. Yes, that's true. I'm a woman, you know. Only men can spread the Word and summon people to repent. In three republics of Central Asia Uzbekistan, Tadjikistan, and Turkmenia there are 54 Baptist churches and groups.
Women lead all the rest.
They conduct the services, they preach, but they cannot perform religious rites, and they are not invited to church conferences, to which all other leaders and pastors are invited. The Position of Women in New Churches About 100 new churches have opened in Central Asia in the past five years. In charismatic churches a woman may take the role of home cell group leader, prophetess, and missionary. There she may pray for the healing of the sick by laying on of hands. The sole responsibility she cannot accept is to perform baptisms, lay on hands during services, or perform the Lord's Supper.