Show Women emerge in RLDS priesthood role SUT LAKE CITY (AP) — Baibara Darrington sas her ordination as one of the first woman priests in the Reorganized ( lurch of Jesus ( hrist of Latter I)a Saints changed her life She sas her priesthood calling in 1484 enhanced her feeling of self cun in and made her feel better tuned to the people she sere es “I have found opportunities to listen that necer would have tome me wac otherv ise" she said Her priesthood tall came through her husband Bruce an elder who was then pastor of their small southwestern Iowa congregation The RLDS hurth C is based in Mo and was Independence founded after the 1844 assassina- tion of the Prophet Joseph Smith following Smith's death most church members trekked to Utah under the leadership of Bugham Young The Utah-base- d church is known as The ( hurch of Jesus hrist of I atter-daSaints Later some church members who did not go to Utah with Young asked Smith's son Joseph Smith III to be their leader This group became known as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of ( v Latter Dav Saints The RLDS Church — which has struggled throughout its his- - tors to eliminate being confused with the larger church spent $20000 in 1986 making commercials that began ”( hances are we re not who sou think we are" The ads stressed that the church is not a cult but a ( religion that in world peace and nuclear disarmament On Nos 17 1984 Barbara Darrington was the first in her aiea and one of some 250 women throughout the RLDS Church to be ordained that day to the priesthood There was a lot of opposition in their region to a husband calling his own wife to receive the pnesthood Bruce Darrington said he struggled with extending the priesthood call considering every other person in the stake but his own wife until he was impressed that it was the Lord's will “One morning the thought came to me 'Are you going to do what you want or what God hrist-centere- es d church's history and scriptures didn't mention the ordination of women the church shouldn't change its practices Bruce Darrington said an earlier article in the church's magazine The Saints Herald prepared the way for the change The article focused on how revelation by its very nature occasionally breaks new ground It also talked about how God re- positions Darrington said she has the authority to perform both baptisms and marriages Neither Bruce nor Barbara Darrington were campaigning for the change before the church’s April 1984 world conference Thai's when church President Wallace B Smith introduced an “inspired document" later adopted by a vote of the church's members as Section 156 of the book of scripture Doctrine and Covenants Before the conference many members felt that because the spects all people Although it wasn't mous vote a a unani- two-thir- majority Start the NEW YEAR RIGHT! 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