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Reverend Randel McCarty graduated from Milan High School, Milan, Tennessee in 1967. He then attended Southwestern Assemblies of God Bible University in Waxahachie, Texas, where he graduated in 1971 with a Bachelor of Science in Pastoral Care and Theology. He also met his wife, Darlene, there and they were married in 1970. While attending college they were youth pastors in Athens, Texas. After graduation they accepted the position of youth pastor and guidance counselor at Prichard Assembly of God in Mobile, Alabama. Their youth group grew from 12 to 150 the first year.
He became senior pastor at First Assembly of God in Millington, Tennessee in 1792. Responsibilities included all those associated with pastoral ministry. Served two terms as president of Ministerial Alliance; appointed Contact Chaplain of the Assemblies of God for the Navy in Memphis; attendance increased from 51 to 185; purchased 35 acres for relocation of church. Reverend Randel McCarty was ordained as a minister with the Assemblies of God in 1974 with the Tennessee District.
In 1976 he relocated to Dyer, Tennessee to become senior pastor of First Assembly of God. Responsibilities included all those associated with pastoral ministry. He served as Ministerial Alliance president; speaker at city-wide Thanksgiving service; organized church softball league; refurbished parsonage and landscaped the church grounds. Morning worship attendance increased from 135 to 179 in 18 months. Only being there for 18 months he was voted into the District Youth Director’s position by the Tennessee District Council of the Assemblies of God.
He has been a youth pastor for 2 churches and pastored 2 churches before going into the Tennessee District Office as a District Youth Director. He directed all youth ministries for the state of Tennessee. After 13 years of ministry in the Tennessee District Office. Directed Summer Camp for 172 churches, administered college ministry programs for 10 state colleges, raised funds for Speed the Light ministry, directed Fine Arts & Bible Quiz programs statewide, and directed 15 Ambassador Missions trips to the Bahamas, Jamaica, Mexico, Honduras, Columbia, Costa Rica, Chile and Panama. Attendance in the summer camps increased from 850 to 2,200. Speed-the-Light contributions increased from $39,000 to $126,000. The Thanksgiving Convention attendance increased from 350 to 4,200.
He and his wife, Darlene, were led by the Holy Spirit to accept the position of senior pastor at Germantown Assembly of God. Responsibilities included all those associated with senior pastoral ministry and five staff members. Morning worship attendance has increased from 125 in 1990 to over 600 in 2005. The church relocated from Germantown to Cordova in 1995. The church was then renamed as Cathedral of Praise. While pastoring here in Memphis at Cathedral of Praise he has held positions such as Executive Presbyter for TN – 2001 to Present; Missions Director for Memphis Section – 1996-2003; Chairman of the PCCNA (Pentecostal Charismatic Churches of North America) - 1998-2003; Tennessee District DYD – 1978-1990, and serves as a member of Decade of Harvest Committee in the Memphis Section.
Pastor McCarty and his wife, Darlene, have been married 40 years and have two children, Tyra and Tiffany and are the proud grandparents of Mackenzie Ashlyn Whitehurst 11 years old, Chase Walker Whitehurst who passed away in 2006 at age 3½, and Mia Alahn Whitehurst 3 years old. Tyra and her husband, Jason Whitehurst, serve as senior pastors at Music City Assembly of God in Nashville, Tennessee. Tiffany and her husband Paul serve as senior pastors at Blytheville 1st Assembly of God Church in Blytheville, Arkansas. They have two sons: Cole Anthony 4 years old and Carson Ashton 2 years old. |
