Dr. James Rankin McGougan

Dr. James Rankin McGougan was born in Scotland and now lives in Florida as a dual citizen of the UK and the US. He holds a Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.) in Pastoral Ministry from North West Graduate School of the Ministry and is currently a Ph.D. candidate (ABD) in Transformational Leadership at Bakke Graduate University, where he also serves as an adjunct professor. His academic background includes a Master’s degree in Music from Golden State University and undergraduate degrees in Sacred Music and Christian Education from Evangel University, and a B.R.E. degree in Bible and Religious Education from Western Pentecostal Bible College.

Dr. McGougan brings over five decades of pastoral, teaching, and chaplaincy experience across British Columbia, Washington State, Missouri, and Florida. He has traveled extensively with music groups and has taught at Southeastern University (Lakeland, FL), Selkirk College and Vancouver Island University (British Columbia), and established and directed a ministry training center in Fort Myers. He currently serves as a Hospice Chaplain and as a minister and Board of Elders member at Gulf Shore Church in Bonita Springs, Florida.

His teaching and research interests center on corporate worship, music ministry, pastoral leadership, and marriage and family counseling, supported by further graduate studies in trauma counseling, testing and analysis, and dissociative disorders.

He has served as a frequent keynote speaker and guest lecturer on topics such as end-of-life care, family violence, and suicide prevention. He continues to be actively involved in pastoral leadership, men’s and home group ministry, worship leading and training, and pulpit ministry.

Dr. McGougan and his wife, Laura, have been married for 57 years and have three daughters and five grandchildren.