Nov 18, 2009 -- 2:33PM, mawga wrote:

I am new to the Missionary Baptist faith and would like to know if it is improper for woman to speak, not preach, during conference? Could someone please tell me where I might find this in the bible or tell me if this is improper.

Thank you and God bless you
Shirley

There was a command for woman to be silent in church.

 This was meant to hush down interruption of the service.

Present application of this command differs.

Once the Catholic Church had boys in the choir instead of women because the Pope thought that women ought to be silent.

Paul also commanded that women have their heads covered while praying and prophesying. Regulation always imply consent, these women could pray and prophesy aloud, but with an attitude of submission(Men, likewise, should have a submissive spirit in Church.) We have women in our choir, they give announcements during service, they read the Bible lessons to the congregation,and occasionally the pastor will ask one to teach during the sermon. Please notice that they always have the pastor's permission to perform these actions. The pastor is ultimately responsible for the conduct of the service. 

actually both passages apply to wives who interupt their husbands not women in general

the word gune tranlated women is actually translated wives in most other passages

the passages in question are:

  1Co 14:34  Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
 1Ti 2:11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
 1Ti 2:12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence

in the original Greek: Gune is translated wife

there is broader word that means husband; the word aner hear means husband

anthropos is the word for men in general