Our Practice of “Head-Covering”
Someone observed and asked, “I notice at your evening prayer meetings that only men pray. Are women not permitted to pray; and if not, why not?”
That is an accurate observation and a very good question.
We invite both men and women to pray at our prayer meetings. As we do, we are very glad when the men take initiative to lead in order to establish a good “prayer meeting momentum.” This seems to be in accord with Paul, when he exhorts, “Therefore I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and dissension” (I Timothy 2:8).
Women are encouraged to pray in our mixed (male/female) gathered meetings for worship and instruction, but if a woman desires to pray audibly in the meeting she should do so with her head “covered.”
