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Editor’s Note: This feature originally ran in the annual 20 Under 40 magazine which was a part of the LaGrange Daily News July 31 edition. If you would like to pick up a copy of the 20 Under 40 magazine, please visit our office at 115 Broad Suite 101.

Born in LaGrange and raised in West Point, Blake Alford knows every corner of the county. 

Currently, Alford, 28, wears multiple hats. He is a Pharmacy Technician and General Manager of Greene Super Drug in Lanett, AL while also serving as the pastor of Reeds Chapel Baptist Church in West Point, GA. In fact, his two jobs, despite being quite different in appearance, came together seamlessly.

“Upon graduation, I went to work for a logistics provider in our area. During my 3 years there I had the opportunity to travel the southeastern part of our country completing the start-ups for multiple different warehouses and manufacturing facilities in the automotive and appliance industries. Due to the pandemic in 2020 I transferred my employment to J-Par Trucking in Roanoke, AL where I was the Safety Director there for 4 years. While there I answered the call to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ,” Alford said. “I had attended Reeds Chapel Baptist Church for the majority of my life and was more than honored to be nominated to be their pastor. Knowing that I needed to get back to my community to serve as the pastor, I called upon my friends at Greene Super Drug who welcomed me back in with open arms.”

Alford uses both of his jobs to help build bridges in the community. He is both a servant and shepherd for Troup County and beyond.

“Being a pastor and playing a role in the local medical field, I see it as a great blessing to help serve the community that helped raise me. Upon graduating college, I held various positions and was able to learn some of the key components of business and finance,” Alford said. “I worked outside of my community for 6 years after graduating college, and now I am getting to take the valuable on-the-job experience that I picked up along the way and use it to benefit those who played key roles in my life growing up.”

The Troup County community means everything to Alford. It molded and shaped him and now he is giving back to the area he loves so very much.

“It is my goal to continually bring the gospel, which is the good news of Jesus Christ not only through mission projects and church services, but through the serving of my community with the way I live my everyday life,” Alford said. “I have led multiple mission projects around our community. Since 2021 we have fed the community FREE barbeque sack lunches every spring. We started out giving away 250 the first year and we have done 500 sack lunches from the second year to now. I have also held a community-wide candlelight Christmas Eve service at my residence this past year in an effort to bring the community together despite doctrinal or theological differences to celebrate the birth of our savior, Jesus Christ.”

Alford celebrated his first anniversary earlier this year with his wife, Madison, and the two are proud to be an aunt and uncle to their first niece, Josie Rae Walls.