Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword: Making a difference / Péri Rasolondraibe --Introduction: Background and genesis / Musumbi R.A. Kanyoro --Discipleship of equals : reality and vision / Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza -- Vocation and ministry / Eugene L. Brand -- In search of a round table / Christine Grumm -- Re-reading Scripture : a hermeneutical approach / Niromala Vasanthakumar -- Power, authority and the Bible / Wanda Deifelt -- Reading the Bible as equals / Elizabeth Schüssler Fiorenza -- Naming and reclaiming power / Martha E. Stortz -- Power in a discipleship of equals / Ranjini Rebera -- Power and minorities : indigenous women in South America / Manuel Larreal -- Communion and economic power / Ruth Besha -- Rethinking economic power / Mariama Marjorie Williams -- An agenda for the whole communion / Ishmael Noko --Theology in the communion of churches : what are the implications? / Elisabeth Parmentier -- Women in the Lutheran communion / Musimbi R.A. Kanyoro -- African women and Lutheran tradition / Anna E. Mghwira --Cultural elements and women's ordination / Datuk Thu En-Yu -- Women pastors in Indonesia / Basa Hutabarat -- The ordination of women in Africa / Musimbi R.A. Kanyoro -- Women's ordination : a viewpoint from Tanzania / Cuthbert K. Omari -- A decade of discovery / Nicole Fischer -- What does the decade offer men? / Robert Shantz -- Strategies for women / Käte Mahn -- Women and decision-making : an Ethiopian experience / Yadessa Daba --The challenge of feminist theologies / Musimbi R.A. Kanyoro -- The Decade as the Great Commision / Pang Ken-Phin.