Can women be entrusted with the gospel?

For millenia women missionaries have told the good news about God's salvation throughout the world. My mother is one of those women. She and her twin sister traveled from their home state of California to rugged Alaska in the 1940s to help the pioneering work of another woman missionary. They held Bible studies for women and children. After awhile a little church began from that work, with a man as pastor (the lady missionary believed that only men should pastor). The pioneer missionary moved on to other places in Alaska to do the same kind of sharing of the gospel.

But some English translations of the Bible cast doubt on whether it is legitimate for women to be entrusted with the gospel, even though the original Greek (2 Tim. 2:2) appears to sanction it. Click here if you'd like to read Suzanne's post about the pistois anthropois (not pistois andrasi) who are to be entrusted with the gospel.