{"id":829,"date":"2007-08-10T19:31:41","date_gmt":"2007-08-11T03:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/08\/10\/congratulations-george-o-wood\/"},"modified":"2009-07-20T13:36:12","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T21:36:12","slug":"congratulations-george-o-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/08\/10\/congratulations-george-o-wood","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations, George O.&nbsp;Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I was busy touring Monterey Bay Aquarium with my family and eating <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Durian\">durian<\/a>, most of the rest of the Assemblies of God was in Indianapolis for our biennial ministerial gathering.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/georgeowood.com\/\">George Wood<\/a>  has been elected General Superintendent of the Assemblies of God. I honestly didn\u2019t think he had a chance \u2014 our movement is still pretty anti-intellectual and he has two earned doctorates. In addition, I thought he might be perceived as part of the \u201cold guard\u201d in a time of great change. I\u2019m delighted that I was wrong \u2014 he\u2019ll be a great leader. He\u2019s a very flexible thinker and sees both the strengths and weaknesses of our movement pretty clearly.<\/p>\n<p>Alton Garrison was elected the new Assistant General Superintendent (I expected he would take one of the two top spots) \u2014 and he\u2019s a very savvy leader. He\u2019s much more well-read and innovative than most people expect an evangelist from Arkansas to be. He\u2019ll be a great voice to have at the&nbsp;table.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>John Palmer is the new General Secretary \u2014 I had expected him to become the executive director of AG US Missions instead. I\u2019ve never met him, but I\u2019ve heard nothing but good things. Tim and Julie Smith in particular have given me very encouraging reports about him. He seems like a great addition to the&nbsp;team.<\/p>\n<p>Zollie Smith was the most surprising election. He\u2019s my new boss\u2019s boss (director of US Missions, taking the position I expected John Palmer to land), and I\u2019ve been hearing good things about him for years. His election was a milestone for the Assemblies of God \u2014 he\u2019s our first non-Caucasian executive officer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m very excited about the leadership team that came out of this General Council. It bodes well for our future as a movement. We picked some extremely competent people.<\/p>\n<p>Oh \u2014 and the business sessions were feisty this year. If you\u2019re into that sort of thing, you might want to <a href=\"http:\/\/ag.org\/top\/Events\/General_Council_2007\/Broadcasts\/index.cfm\">check them out<\/a> <\/p>\n<div style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.pdma.org?journal_of_a_contract_killer\">journal of a contract killer movie download<\/a><\/div>\n<p> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was busy touring Monterey Bay Aquarium with my family and eating durian, most of the rest of the Assemblies of God was in Indianapolis for our biennial ministerial gathering. George Wood has been elected General Superintendent of the Assemblies of God. I honestly didn\u2019t think he had a chance \u2014 our movement is \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/08\/10\/congratulations-george-o-wood\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cCongratulations, George O.&nbsp;Wood\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assemblies-of-god"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-dn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2249,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions\/2249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}