Church of God 2024 General Assembly Elections and Appointments

You can view the list here.

As I noted in my post It’s That Time Again: Reflections on the 2024 Church of God General Council Agenda, I stated that the most intense focus would be on the appointments, especially the Executive Committee, which is why the appointments are published first. I think the best way to describe the way the elections came out is “safe.” They avoided some potentially controversial people in a General Assembly that some (including myself) felt was pivotal in the life of our church.

I’ve known most of these men either from my time in the International Offices or, in the case of Mark Williams, from my years at the North Cleveland Church of God, where he was my pastor. Both he and his wife Sandra Kay were attentive participants in the series which started as Liturgy, Pentecost, Wesley and the Book of Common Prayer, Part I: What is a Liturgy? Losing him as pastor is personally painful for me and my wife, but given the nature of our system is it is the best for them and for our church. With all that I think we have a good Executive Committee.

It is interesting to note that our new General Overseer/Presiding Bishop, Gary Lewis, is first generation in his family to be in the Church of God (his wife Lori is fourth, which was doubtless helpful.) It’s a sign that we are open to the people we reach out to, and that’s not always the case with some evangelical groups.

I followed both General Council and General Assembly as closely as I could. When I get of the final results on the outcome of the agenda, I will post that as well.

May God bless our church, its leadership and its laity as we move forward.