The Laurinburg District

Rev. McDougald is a graduate of Fayetteville State University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and he earned a Masters of Divinity from Campbell University Divinity School in Buie Creek, North Carolina. Rev. McDougald is a veteran of the United States Army.

During his career journey, he was an insurance agent, a human resource manager for twenty-five years with Cumberland County and the state of North Carolina.   He is a former employee of the Employment Security Commission, Offender Aid and Restoration and the Cumberland County Workforce Development Division.  Rev. McDougald served two terms as a member of the Fayetteville City Council.

Rev. Chalmers McDougald was born in Portsmouth, Virginia and raised by his grandmother in rural Harnett County, North Carolina. Rev. McDougald states, “She taught me to believe in God and to seek him through prayer”.

Rev. McDougald and Mrs. Alice Bracy McDougald have been married for forty-nine years. Mrs. Alice McDougald is active in ministry with Elder McDougald. Mrs. McDougald is a dynamic missionary leader and served as missionary president for the Dunn-Lillington, Fayetteville and Sanford Districts. She is also a retired educator of the Cumberland County Schools.  They are parents of two daughters; Yimiya Pearson (Bernard) and Adia McEachin (James) and they have six grandchildren.