Assemblies of God to allow women to hold leadership post?
Amid continued growth of the Pentecostal movement in the United States and overseas, as many as 30,000 members of the Assemblies of God will arrive in Orlando this week for the biennial meeting of its General Council.
The meeting may be historic. In a sign that the Assemblies, the oldest predominantly white Pentecostal fellowship in the country, is changing attitudes about women in leadership, delegates are expected to approve a change in policy that would see a woman elected to the church's General Presbytery, its second-highest policy-making body, for the first time. A Florida-based missionary is considered a strong candidate for that post....