Fmr. Assemblies of God Leader Lauds Increased Inclusion of Racial Minorities in Church

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(Photo: Assemblies of God)George O. Wood, general superintendent of the Assemblies of God, also chairman of the World Assemblies of God.

George O. Wood, former general superintendent of the Assemblies of God, told the National Association of Evangelicals President Leith Anderson in a podcast on Sunday that his denomination “saw significant progress of inclusion” during his time in leadership.

“We mended a lot of racial bridges,” explained Wood. “I worked hard especially with my fellow Pentecostal denominational leaders to be inclusive.”

Wood talked about trying to bring in more young people and racial minorities into leadership roles, telling Anderson that “minority inclusion” was a “process” that “took a number of years.”

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(Photo: www.cogic.org)Charles E. Blake, presiding bishop of the Church of God in Christ, and George O. Wood, general superintendent of the Assemblies of God, have jointly called for Dec. 14, 2014, to be “Black Lives Matter Sunday,” in light of the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner during police confrontations.

“The argument at the beginning was we don’t want to establish quotas,” said Wood. “My response was ‘we already have a quota: you must be white, over 50, and that’s our quota. Everybody kind of laughed but realized that was…

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