Covenant Methodist Church
Covenant Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 3610 W Main St in Dothan, AL 36305-1048. It is one of 167 churches in Dothan, and one of 10 Methodist congregations in the city.
Our mission is to Pursue God, Unleash Compassion.
Welcome home! Covenant began with a pastor and a dream in 1979. The fire that was started by B. Michael Watson continued to burn, and the church grew. When Dr. Hays McKay, Jr. was appointed to Covenant in 1998, however, the church had unprecedented growth, almost like a wildfire. Under Hays’ leadership, a contemporary service was launched (1999), a Christian Life Center was built (2004), and the church started worshipping in a new Sanctuary in 2009. In 2018, Covenant was listed as the 18th fasting growing church in United Methodism, and in 2019, Covenant was 9th on that list. On May 8, 2023, C
3610 W Main St, Dothan, AL, 36305-1048Service times
- Sunday 8:30am
Phone: (334) 793-4440 · Website: https://covenantdothan.org/
Covenant Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,361 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Alabama — 25,985 across the United States on The Church Map.
Methodism gave the church the class meeting, the circuit rider, and the Sunday school, and gave America the conviction that grace is genuinely for everyone — carried into prisons, mines, and mill towns by preachers who owned almost nothing. Charles Wesley's hymns are still sung in nearly every tradition, most of them by people who have no idea whose they are.
Ministries at Covenant Methodist Church
- Celebrate Recovery
- Stephen Ministry
- Grief Support
- Cancer Care Ministry
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The community around Covenant Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 35.1%
- Depression: 23.9%
- Diabetes: 13.1%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
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- Pathway Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Saint Columba Catholic Church — 1 mi away
- St. Matthias Anglican Church — 1.1 mi away
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