OUR PASTOR

Pastor Alan Woodard

Having grown up in a Pastor’s home, you could say that Alan Woodard’s Christian training began at birth.  He first began attending Reelsboro Pentecostal Holiness Church at the age of five, when his father, Rev. H.P. Woodard, was assigned to the church.  (Rev. Woodard pastored RPHC for 24 years.) As a child, he was nurtured in the Word and was shown Jesus through his parents’ and his church family’s examples.  Alan graduated from Pamlico County High School and headed off to Greenville where he attended and graduated from East Carolina University in 1983.  It was while he was still in college though, he married his high school sweetheart, Paula, and soon they returned home to Pamlico County to start their family.  The young couple and, eventually their two children, Ashlynne & Jordan, became active at RPHC.  While remaining active in the church, Alan received his Residential Building Contractor’s License and worked in a family construction and real estate business for approximately 16 years.  In 1999, he was blessed to begin teaching Construction Technology at Pamlico County High School and coached football there for many years during his teaching career.  In 2019, he retired from public school teaching, often referring to the school and football field as “his mission field.”

From 1983 through 2015, Alan was honored to serve in many areas of ministry at RPHC, including Royal Ranger’s Commander, Sunday School Teacher, Sunday School Superintendent, Deacon Board Member, Youth Pastor and Church Music Director. He received his Local Minister’s License in 2010 and later, in 2016, he enrolled in the School of Ministry at Falcon, NC to complete his studies.  That same year, Alan was appointed to Associate Pastor at RPHC under the leadership of Rev. Steve Willis.  In 2019, Pastor Alan became an ordained minister of the North Carolina Conference of the International Pentecostal Holiness Church and, upon Pastor Willis’ retirement in the summer of 2020, was appointed to Pastor of RPHC. 

Having grown up in the church and lived in the Reelsboro community for much of his life, Pastor Alan has a deep love for and a steadfast commitment to the Reelsboro Pentecostal Holiness Church and the people of Reelsboro, Pamlico County and surrounding areas.  

In that same vein, Pastor Alan and the Board’s vision for the Reelsboro Pentecostal Holiness Church is that the church will reach, teach, love and prepare those in our families and community for eternal life through Jesus Christ.  RPHC’s mission is to help strengthen families, teach God’s Word, advance God’s Kingdom, reach the lost and serve the community.