Our Senior Minister, Rev. Dr. Alan W. McBride has been an Elder in the United Methodist Church for 25 years and has provided pastoral leadership in Selma, AL at Church Street UMC, Camden and Canton Bend churches in Camden, Alabama, First United Methodist Church in Opp, AL, and Troy, Alabama's First United Methodist Church.
Alan came to Navarre United Methodist Church in July, 2017 following 10 years as Senior Minister at Orange Beach United Methodist Church on the nearby Alabama Gulf Coast, west of Pensacola.
Alan is married to Karen Ilene Dougherty of Jennings, Louisiana. They married July 1st, 1989 and have 3 children; Will lives in Louisville, KY, Laura is a nurse in the Pensacola area, and Ally is a college sophomore at Asbury University in Wilmore, KY.
Alan is a Pensacola, FL native, graduating from Washington High School in 1982. He met Karen in college at Asbury College where they both graduated in 1988. At Asbury College, Alan earned a BA in History and English and then attended Asbury Theological Seminary, graduating in may, 1993 with a Master of Divinity degree. Later, he completed his Doctor of Ministry (D-Min) in 2006 at Beeson Divinity School, Samford University in Birmingham, AL.
Dr. McBride has a deep love for Christ, The Church, and a passion to both bring new people into relationship with Jesus through salvation and grow and deepen our church friends here in their walk with Christ. He feels that each person in the church has an imperative placed on us to be active in ministering and sharing Jesus' love with others-each one of us is a "minister".
Alan is an avid reader, tennis player, enjoys fishing and hunting, and loves to tinker with handy work around the house.
Life Verse: For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. 2 Timothy 1:7
