Our Pastor

Pastor David and Shannon Goodwin

The Goodwin’s are North American Missionaries affiliated with the United Pentecostal Church International who are called to the city of Hoover, AL and the surrounding communities. Originally, from Dothan in southeast Alabama, Pastor David, Shannon, and their two children Jeron and Mackenzie packed up their lives as life-long members and volunteer staff of the Pentecostals of Dothan and moved to Central Alabama in October 2017 to plant Grace Point Church.

The calling to the city of Hoover and the surrounding communities actually began on January 11, 2001 when the Goodwin’s brought their 12 day old son to Children’s Hospital to begin the first of many visits to this area for doctors appointments and surgeries. The burden and calling became a little clearer in March 2008, while at Beth Yates Park in Sylacauga, when Pastor David, then the Youth Pastor at the POD in Dothan, was preaching a revival service for a local pastor. While pushing, then 18 month old, Mackenzie in a swing set the LORD spoke to Pastor David and asked, “How would you feel about pastoring a church?” At the same time unknown to Pastor David, the LORD was asking Shannon the same question. Neither were aware of that conversation with the LORD until two weeks later, when Shannon brought up her experience and tearfully Pastor David shared his side of the conversation and they wept together as they acknowledged that the LORD was indeed calling them to this new area of ministry.

Immediately, Pastor David knew that they were not called to take an existing church, but to start one from the ground up. Unsure, of exactly where the LORD was calling them at the moment, Pastor David and Shannon began driving to cities throughout Alabama that did not have an existing church that taught the Apostolic message. A few months later while driving into Hoover to stay in a hotel for one of Jeron’s routine visits to Children’s Hospital, Pastor David turned to Shannon and announced to the family, “This is it…this is where we are suppose to be…this is the city that GOD has called us to, where we are suppose to plant a church.” It took many more years for the LORD to put all the pieces in place for the Goodwin’s to move and to start Grace Point Church on January 31, 2021.