Meet Our Pastor

Family
Pastor Blythe is supported in life by his beautiful wife of over 19 years, Leslie. She is Pastor Blythe's virtuous woman and serves as an ALCC Executive Board member.

Leslie also serves as the primary leader for the W.O.W. (Women of the Word) ministry and she volunteers in the preschool ministry; all while working on her MBA! She will serve as the Executive Director of the Abundant Academy Learning Center upon its establishment.

Pastor Blythe and Leslie are blessed to be the God appointed parents of Myles who is 6 years old. He attends a learning academy, enjoys church and loves to sing worship and praise songs!

The Blythe family has lived in Alpharetta for over 8 years. Pastor Blythe is the 4th of 6 children born to the late Anel Blythe and Jessie Blythe Brannon of Spartanburg, SC.

Career to Calling
Pastor Blythe was called to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ on January 1, 1994 and was licensed on February 20, 1994 and ordained on December 18, 1994 by the Senior Pastor Elijah Jones, Sr. of Greater Zion Hill Baptist Church in Smyrna, GA.

Although he was fully committed to this calling, Pastor Blythe never believed that he would leave his very progressive and fruitful business career. Pastor Blythe was at the pinnacle of his corporate executive career when he received the vision for Abundant Life Community Church in 1999. He was operating as the Chief Service Officer and Senior Vice President of a then $17B company in the electronic payments industry.

After bathing the vision in prayer with Leslie and consulting his pastor, Rev. Craig L. Oliver of Elizabeth Baptist Church, Pastor Blythe moved from career to calling on January 25, 2002. Abundant Life Community Church was incorporated on March 11, 2002, the first organizational meeting was held on April 24, 2002, and the first worship service was held on Father's Day, June 16, 2002.

Personal
Pastor Blythe received Jesus Christ as his Savior and Lord on May 29, 1988. God has blessed him tremendously and equipped Pastor Blythe with several spiritual gifts to effectively lead this new congregation. Pastor Blythe earned a B.S. in Management Communication from Southern Christian University in Montgomery, AL with honors as their Magna Cum Laude student.

He loves the richness of God's word which enables him to deliver practical and applicable teaching to reach people who are believers, seekers, or doubters. Pastor Blythe is focused on leading the ALCC family to growth that builds us up and that helps us focus on reaching those outside the Kingdom of God.

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