ABOUT

About Bluewater

What is Bluewater?  Bluewater is people, pure and simple.


We are a diversity of people - saints and sinners, young and old, big and small, smart and smarter.  Our common ground is that we are all God’s children, the Apple of His eye, totally accepted and amazingly empowered to serve our Father’s heart by loving and serving other people who may not share our belief but do share our story, our life and our place on this earth.


We’d enjoy the opportunity know you, embrace you, to serve and love you, to know and befriend you, to support and pray for you. But the only way we can do that is to know you and you to know us.  We hope to do that at one of many community events here in the Florida Keys - Island Fest or Holiday Fest, Key Largo 4th of July Parade, one of our schools, on our jobs or in our neighborhoods.   Another way is for us to invite you to spend an hour or so with us on Sunday morning in our living room.


We are conveniently located at Mile Marker 86.5, Plantation Key, just between Founder’s Park and the Snake Creek drawbridge on Overseas Highway. There, you’ll always find great coffee, friendly smiles, shared joy and the presence of God’s great love. We are excited to meet you and welcome you soon.


Pastor Joe & Alexis Scanlon

Pastor Joe hails from Riverside, California and is an owner/general manager of CrossFit Key Largo. Committed to the values of personal development – spirit, soul & body – Joe is your go-to guy for health & wholeness in every arena of life.

Alexis is another local Keys girl, a graduate of Coral Shores High School and has completed her Bachelors of Science at Everglades University in nutrition and holistic health. Now  working along side her husband on building Bluewater Community Church. She loves to create a welcoming and warm atmosphere for all of our guests and family at Bluewater.

Pastor Joe & Alexis Scanlon

Pastor Joe hails from Riverside, California and is an owner/general manager of CrossFit Key Largo. Committed to the values of personal development – spirit, soul & body – Joe is your go-to guy for health & wholeness in every arena of life.

Alexis is another local Keys girl, a graduate of Coral Shores High School and presently completing her education at Everglades University in nutrition and holistic health. Alexis is a counselor and group director at a local personal rehabilitation facility in Monroe County and loves to create a welcoming and warm atmosphere for all of our guests and family at Bluewater.

Pastor Joe & Alexis Scanlon

Pastor Joe hails from Riverside, California and is an owner/general manager of CrossFit Key Largo. Committed to the values of personal development – spirit, soul & body – Joe is your go-to guy for health & wholeness in every arena of life.

Alexis is another local Keys girl, a graduate of Coral Shores High School and has completed her Bachelors of Science at Everglades University in nutrition and holistic health. Alexis now owns an organizing business helping others create peace inside of their homes. While working along side her husband on building Bluewater Community Church. She loves to create a welcoming and warm atmosphere for all of our guests and family at Bluewater.

Darin & Jennifer Greenfield

Darin & Jennifer have deep and wide spiritual roots and commitment to the mission of Jesus. Darin serves us in worship leadership and Jennifer shares her gifts in teaching and personal ministry. Natives of Texas, now firmly planted here in the Upper Keys, Darin is employed by AT&T and Jennifer is a healthcare professional with Baptist Health of South Florida.

Jeff & Christi Dupre

Jeff and Christi are seasoned leaders and valuable spiritual guides for Bluewater. Jeff's background in marketing, finance, and leadership lend great gravity and foundation as a trusted advisor. Christi's spiritual leadership and community activism in prayer ministry and cooperative effort in her oversight of the Florida Keys House of Prayer are invaluable to our mission of developing disciples of Jesus, active in love and care.

Phil and Sherry Underwood

Founders of Bluewater in The Keys and an Islamorada resident for ten years. Phil has also served in the Keys as:

  • Member of the Monroe County Long Term Recovery Group in Funding and Allocations for Hurricane Irma
  • Chairperson of the Monroe County COAD (Community Organizations Active in Disaster)
  • Twice-elected board member of the Islamorada Chamber of Commerce,
  • Graduate and Board Member of Leadership Monroe County
  • President of the Upper Keys Ministerial Alliance.

Life Wisdom

Parents to five adult children and grandparents to six amazing little ones. They are alumni of Lee University. Phil has also studied at Rhema Bible College and post-graduate studies at Reformed Theological Seminary. Phil & Sherry now reside in Atlanta, Georgia and maintain a closer relationship to their roots and family.

Global Ambassador for Bluewater

Phil & Sherry serve as Pastors Emeritus of Bluewater In The Keys and maintain a close mentoring relationship with the congregation. In addition, their new work, Epic Grace Ministries assists leaders around the world establishing the mission of Jesus, and personally they live to make disciples, immersing people in the identity of the Father, Jesus, and Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe what Jesus teaches.


Friend of people around the globe. Phil's energy, insight and understanding coaches people as they move from maintenance to mission. As the old African proverb says, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”

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