Zollie L. Smith, Jr.
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Zollie L. Smith Jr. was elected to the position of executive director of Assemblies of God U.S. Missions at the 52nd General Council in August 2007. As AGUSM executive director, Smith coordinates the ministries of six departments: Church Planting; Chaplaincy Ministries; Teen Challenge International, USA; Chi Alpha Campus Ministries; Intercultural Ministries; and U.S. Mission America Placement Service (MAPS). Currently, there are more than 1,000 missionaries and more than 400 chaplains under AGUSM, with 5,000 other related field personnel.
Prior to his present position, Smith served as the Executive Presbyter representing the Ethnic Fellowships and as president of the National Black Fellowship from 1998-2007. He served the New Jersey District of the Assemblies of God as assistant superintendent (1998-2005) and then as executive secretary (2005-07). From 1990 to 2005, Smith served as pastor of Eternal Life Christian Center of the Assemblies of God, Somerset, New Jersey. During his pastorate, the church grew to over 300 members and completed a $2.7 million educational enrichment center, which continues to train believers and ministers. Prior to Eternal Life Christian Center, Smith pioneered a church in his home that later became Plainfield Assembly of God, a New Jersey district affiliate.
Ordained with the Assemblies of God in 1986, Smith holds a masters degree in business management with emphasis on non-profit organizations from Regent University; a bachelors degree in criminology and criminal justice from Florida State University; and a diploma in ministerial studies from Berean Bible College.
Smith has spent his lifetime in service as a former police officer/detective; U.S. Postal Inspector; and Airborne Infantryman in the Vietnam War where he was awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star.
Smith has been instrumental in gathering support from AG churches and encouraging them to become a “Rainbow Witness” for Christ in the planting of inner city churches.
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