Meet the Alumni Board: Rev. Dr. Charles Kyker

The Rev. Dr. Charles C. Kyker is a new addition to our Alumni Association Board.  He is a 2004 graduate of Asbury Theological Seminary’s Beeson International Center for Advanced Church Leadership and Biblical Preaching, where he received a Doctor of Ministry in Church Leadership and Evangelism.  Charles has also received a Master of Theology in Wesley Studies from Duke University’s Divinity School in 1993, a Master of Divinity from Emory’s Candler School of Theology in 1988, and a Bachelor of Arts in Religion and Philosophy with a minor in Psychology from Greensboro College in 1985. 

Amidst working on these degrees, Charles was also serving.  He served as youth pastor of Unity UMC in Thomasville, NC (1982-83), and Asbury UMC in Greensboro, NC (1983-85).  He served as the associate pastor for First UMC in Buford, GA (1985-87); First UMC in Fayetteville, GA (1987-88); and First UMC in Waynesville, NC (1988-90).  Charles was the senior pastor of Centenary UMC in Clemmons, NC (1990-97).  He is currently the Lead Pastor of the four campuses of Christ UMC in and around Hickory, NC. Charles was ordained as a Deacon in the United Methodist Church in the Western North Carolina Annual Conference in 1987 and later as an Elder, in 1991.

Charles is married to the former Julie Melissa White of Cleveland, TN.  They have been married 22 wonderful years and have four children:  MaryGrace (20), Ashley Beth (19), Molly Ann (18), and Joseph (15).