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Our Non-resident Executive Presbytery

Dan Betzer

Dan Betzer has served as the Southeast area executive presbyter since 1995. He is also the assistant district superintendent of the Peninsular Florida District. Since 1987, Betzer has served as senior pastor at First Assembly Ministries, a church of 10,000 with five campuses in Fort Myers, Florida.

Betzer has an extensive background in broadcasting. For 17 years, he preached on the weekly Assemblies of God syndicated broadcast Revivaltime. Betzer has produced over 50 audio and video albums for children. He was also the writer and host of Byline weekday radio and television commentaries.

Warren D. Bullock

Warren D. Bullock has served as the Northwest area executive presbyter since 2001. Since 2006, he’s held the position of senior pastor at Northwest Family Church in Auburn, Washington. During his ministry, Bullock has pastored at several churches in Washington and Oregon. He also served as superintendent of the Northwest District for eight years.

Bullock has a long history with Northwest University in Kirkwood, Washington. In addition to earning his undergraduate degrees there, he has held the positions of public relations director and dean of the school of ministry. Bullock currently serves on the university’s board of directors.

Bullock earned a Master of Arts from Seattle Pacific University and a Doctor of Ministry from California Graduate School of Theology.

Richard L. Dresselhaus

Richard L. Dresselhaus has served as the Southwest area executive presbyter since 1997. From 1970 to 2003, he was senior pastor at First Assembly of God in San Diego, California. Prior to that, Dresselhaus pastored two churches in Minnesota.

Dresselhaus is a graduate of both Luther College and North Central Bible College. He earned a Master of Arts from Wheaton Graduate School and a Doctor of Ministry from Fuller Theological Seminary.

Dresselhaus is author of The Joy of Belonging and The Deacon and His Ministry.

Douglas E. Fulenwider

Douglas E. Fulenwider has served as the Gulf area executive presbyter since 2005. He also serves as superintendent for the Louisiana District, where he has held a variety of positions over thirty years. Previously, Fulenwider served the district as youth director, Christian education director and secretary-treasurer.

J. Don George

J. Don George has served as the South Central area executive presbyter since 2001. Since 1972, George has been senior pastor at Calvary Church in Irving, Texas. During that time, church membership has increased from 60 to more than 7,000.

A graduate of Wayland Baptist University, George has done additional studies at Louisiana State University and the University of Texas at Arlington. He also holds the Doctor of Divinity degree from Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Larry H. Griswold

Larry H. Griswold has served as the Great Lakes area executive presbyter since 2008. He is also the District Superintendent of the Illinois District. He has also provided pastoral leadership for 27 years and has served Illinois churches in Ottawa, Mascoutah, and Joliet.

He is a graduate of North Central Bible College (now North Central University) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with a degree in Bible and Pastoral Ministries, Reverend Griswold also attended Northwestern University and Wheaton Graduate School.

Reverend Griswold also serves as a Board Member of Teen Challenge of Illinois, the Board of Regents for North Central University in Minneapolis, MN and the Board of Regents for Trinity Bible College in Ellendale, ND.

John E. Maracle

John E. Maracle has served as the ethnic area executive presbyter since 2007. He currently serves as the chief/president of the Native American Fellowship of the Assemblies of God, representing the constituency of 190 American Indian and Alaska Native churches, and three Bible colleges that serve Native people across the United States.

As a member of the Mohawk Nation, Wolf Clan, of the Iroquois Confederacy, Maracle served on the Mohawk Council at Tyendinaga, Mohawk Nation Territory. He is the grandson of one of the first Pentecostal believers from his reservation.

Maracle was ordained and appointed as a U.S. Assemblies of God missionary in 1975. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Central Bible College and a Master of Arts from the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary.

Dr. Jesse Miranda, Jr.

Dr. Jesse Miranda, Jr. has served as the language area executive presbyter since 1995. He is also the founder and director of the Jesse Miranda Center for Hispanic Leadership at Vanguard University, the president of the Alianza de Ministerios Evangelicos Nacionales (AMEN) and executive director of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC).

Miranda received a Bachelor of Arts degree at Southern California College (now Vanguard University), a Masters in Religious Education at Talbot Theological Seminary (Biola University), a Master of Science Degree in School Administration from California State University (Fullerton) and a Doctor of Ministry from Fuller Theological Seminary.

He is the author of The Christian Church in Ministry (translated into ten languages) and Liderazgo y Amistad (Leadership and Friendship).

Nam Soo Kim

Nam Soo Kim has served as the other language area executive presbyter since 1999. As senior pastor of Full Gospel New York Church in Flushing, New York, since 1977, he leads a growing congregation of 4,000 members. Kim has helped to establish more than 10 schools around the world that are training more than 10,000 students to become outstanding Christian leaders.

Previously, Kim served at Choong Buk Full Gospel Church in Korea, and at an Assemblies of God church in Berlin, Germany.

H. Robert Rhoden

H. Robert Rhoden has served as the Northeast area executive presbyter since 2001. Previously, he served as superintendent of the Potomac District from 1991 to 2006.

Rhoden is a graduate of Toccoa Falls Bible College in Toccoa Falls, Georgia, and Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. He earned a Master of Arts degree from Wheaton College and a Doctor of Ministry degree from Union Theological Seminary of Virginia.

Clarence St. John

Clarence St. John has served as the North Central area executive presbyter since 2007. Additionally, he has served as superintendent of the Minnesota District since 1989. Prior to assuming these responsibilities, he pastored in Hibbing, Minnesota for 21 years.

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