Ordination is not a privilege. And it is not something to be planned, strategized, or placed on the table and weighed out on a percentage basis so that it meets the "criteria" of civil rights and what appears fair in mortal eyes. Ordination is something that men are allowed to do as agents of God. No mortal truly "ordains" that which is of God. One receives.
God chose Daniel when he was very young and equipped him. As for Moses, wasn't he 80 or so years old when God told him to go back to Egypt and tell the government" to let the people go?” I think it's about submission. Submission is a hard thing for any of us. We resist it. It appears to be a waste of time. But it is essential.
I believe there are many people of all genders and ages in the church wearing collars who God did not choose. Others watched them and see the touch of the Lord on the ministries he planted them in, and surmised that they should be ordained because they ministered. We have lost the orders in the church. We fail to sustain lay ministers. As lay persons are tapped for special missions, we sometimes react by 1) deciding they should be priests because they are exceptionally good lay ministers 2) deciding that they will only be able to devote the time if they become ordained -- i.e. "collars are the only servants worthy of financial support in the church" 3) ignoring them thinking they'll burn out and get over it eventually.

God instructed the early church (and I see no retraction of this exempting us) to lay back provisions for when the brethren have need of it and are sent out in mission. It didn't say for when the "priests" had need. Some of those sent out were “elders”, (priests). But many were not.
It is not necessary to be a priest to function under the authority God. But one must be within "authority."
St. Francis of Assisi was never ordained a priest. Yet he had as great an impact on the church in mission as any human being in his time (or thereafter). He also did not rely on the coffers of the institution to provide a missionary budget before he responded to God's call.
That's the important thing. The individual has to know who it is about. It must be God. And if it is, the call will be confirmed and affirmed in the community of believers. Some will be called late in life to serve at the altar. Other will be called in youth. And many (with and without collars) will be dispatched to special service for a specific purpose God ordains.

We must all remember who ORDAINS, who truly chooses, and anoints -- It is GOD who we must let do the choosing.
There is another element here. It's so easy when God uses us as his instrument to affirm his call on a person's life, to surmise that we "selected". Not so, if we truly pray and receive God's preference prior to acting.

On May 25th Vienna Elementary School had an Evening of Performing Arts and Jennifer Yang read Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes.