Welcome, Chase!

Chase McKoon is Glenn Memorial Church’s new Family Ministries Intern working with Rev. Susan Pinson.

He is delighted to join us while completing his second year of his Master of Divinity at Emory’s Candler School of Theology. Chase is from Smiths Station, Alabama which is only a hop, skip, and a jump from Columbus, Georgia. While there, he grew up attending Trinity United Methodist Church in Phenix City, Alabama where he is a member, and his family has been attending Trinity UMC for several generations.

Chase is the youngest of four siblings. His parents are Jim and Barbara McKoon, and they are both well acquainted with the law. Jim is an attorney in Phenix City, Alabama with his own law practice, McKoon and Gamble, and Barbara has served McKoon and Gamble for many years as both a paralegal and business administrator. Chase often jokes that one of his summertime childhood activities was coloring in front of the law book series Corpus Juris Secundum.

Chase graduated from Glenwood High School in Smiths Station, Alabama in 2016, and that same year he began his undergraduate studies at Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama. During his studies at Huntingdon College, Chase had a variety of experiences in the United Methodist Church. He interned at Mt. Zion UMC (Smiths Station, AL), First UMC (Montgomery, AL), First UMC (Lakeland, FL), the Huntingdon Leadership Academy (Youth Theological Institute, Huntingdon College), and the Alabama-West Florida Conference Office of Ministerial Services. He has also served on the Alabama-West Florida Conference Board of Laity in the 2016-2020 quadrennium, and Chase also worked at Toco Hills Community Alliance during his first year in the Master of Divinity program at Candler School of Theology.

In December of 2019, Chase graduated from Huntingdon College with a Bachelor of Arts, double majoring in Religion and History. In August 2020, he began his studies at Candler School of Theology. He is currently a certified candidate for ordained ministry on the deacon track from the Alabama-West Florida Conference of The United Methodist Church.

At this time, Chase hopes to work in both non-profits and churches doing work in both advocacy/policy-work and spiritual care, and he is still discerning how he can best live out his calling to professional ordained ministry.

Glenn Memorial is lucky to have Chase joining our team and we’re excited to see all he does while interning with us.