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Charles Crabtree, assistant general superintendent of the Assemblies of God, has served in his current position since November of 1993. Crabtree is a member of the Board of Administration and the Executive Presbytery. As assistant general superintendent, he oversees the Division of Church Ministries, which includes all of the adult, youth and children ministries of the church.
Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Crabtree was raised in Bangor, Maine, and then went on to graduate from Central Bible College in Springfield, Missouri. He has received an honorary Doctorate of Divinity from Northwest University of the Assemblies of God in Kirkland, Washington.
Crabtree has also pastored two leading Assemblies of God churches during his ministry. In 1963 he was elected pastor of First Assembly of God, Des Moines, Iowa, and in 1974 assumed the pastorate of Bethel Church in San Jose, California.
For six years prior to his current position, he served the church as the director of the Decade of Harvest. This was an aggressive evangelism effort by the Assemblies of God in the 1990s to win souls to Christ and establish new churches.
Crabtree has authored a number of books on doctrine, church administration and pastoral theology, such as This I Believe, The Contemporary Pastor, Planning for Victory, Pentecost Preaching and The Pentecostal Priority. He has also written numerous articles that appear regularly in the Today’s Pentecostal Evangel and other similar denominational periodicals. | 