Southern Baptists do not call women to pastor churches. That may surprise our Methodist or Presbyterian brothers and sisters but that’s a common facet of Baptist life particularly in the SBC. Except that a June 2023 report that analyzed a random sample of 3,847 SBC churches and found that 99 of them did have female pastors. The vast majority of those, 73 out of 99, serve in an associational role or are designated as the leader of a particular ministry. Seven “co-lead” with their husband but two of the 99 are identified as the “senior pastor” and nine simple as “pastor.” If we extrapolate those numbers from the random sample across then entire SBC, over 49,000 churches, there easily could be over 1,800 female pastors serving in over 1,200 churches.