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DR. JAMES R. DRISCOLL SENIOR PASTOR	REV. KATHLEEN W. HAYNES ASSOCIATE PASTOR	DR. PAUL Y. SHIN KOREAN PASTOR
Dr. James R. Driscoll came to Annandale United Methodist Church as Senior Minister in July 2005. Previously, he has served as pastorates at Burnt Factory United Methodist Church in Winchester, Virginia, Harmony United Methodist Church in Hamilton, Virginia, and Great Bridge United Methodist Church in Chesapeake, Virginia. He was ordained as an Elder in the Virginia Conference of the United Methodist Church in 1987.      Dr. Driscoll is a native of Connellsville, Pennsylvania and graduated from Virginia Tech in 1981. He went on to study at United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio, and Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C. He graduated from Wesley in 1985. Dr. Driscoll received the Doctor of Ministry degree from Wesley in May, 1996. His Doctoral Project-Thesis was "Sharing the Good News: A Workbook on Personal Evangelism."      In addition to his ministry at Annandale, Dr. Driscoll serves as a Chaplain (Lieutenant Colonel) with the Army Reserve. His current assignment is with the Pentagon Chaplain's Office. Previously, he served for 23 years with the Virginia Army National Guard.      Dr. Driscoll has received the Denman Award in Evangelism and the Virginia Conference Award for Excellence in Town and Country Ministry. He has served on the Virginia Conference Board of Discipleship where he Co-Chaired the Division of Evangelism. He currently serves on the Virginia Conference Board of Ordained Ministry.      Dr. Driscoll is married to Katheryn Zimmer Driscoll and they have two children, Rebecca, born in 1988, and Michael, born in 1992.	Rev. Haynes was commissioned for ministry at Annual Conference 2005. While a seminary student, she served a four-point charge in rural Georgia for 4 years. This appointment provided many opportunities for preaching, teaching, counseling, mission awareness, and development of ministry programs. She provided counseling for a wide variety of needs, worked on the issue of Racism, taught studies on topics such as Lent, Major World Religions, and Evangelism, officiated at weddings and funerals, planned and executed between 1-3 worship services each Sunday, led the music and occasionally taught Sunday School.       Rev. Haynes grew up in Texas. Her father is a United Methodist minister in the Texas Conference. She attended Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY, and received a B.A. with an emphasis in Sociology and Creative Art. She graduated from the Candler School of Theology at Emory University, Atlanta, GA.       Rev. Haynes met her husband, John, at Candler and they were married in 2001. He is the pastor at Bruen Chapel UMC in Fairfax. Their first son, Zeke, was born in 2006. They are expecting the birth of their second son this January.	Dr. Shin was born on October 21, 1937 at the Ui Jongbu City Kyongi Do near Seoul, Korea. His father, Shin Gil Bong, who retired as district-superintendent of the Korean Methodist Church, was a pastor for forty years when Japan controlled Korea for 36 years. He is a pioneer minister in Korea. Dr. Shin's mother, Kim Jong Yeo, used to pray early in the morning for years. His mother was converted by a revival pastor. She asked God for her son, Paul Y. Shin, to be a minister. Dr. Shin's parents suffered numerous imprisonments and physical torture by Japanese police for refusing to worship the Emperor during Japanese occupation. After the Korean independence from the Japanese occupation, Dr. Shin's father was again imprisoned by the Communist government in South Korea during the Korean War. During the Korean War many pastors were eventually martyred for the cause of Christ by Communists.      With his parents' strong faith as his inspiration, in 1957 Dr. Shin entered Seoul Methodist Theological Seminary, supporting himself by means of delivering newspapers every morning before going to school and eating nurunggee (burned rice discarded from the kitchen), and studied Theology and English including Greek and Hebrew. In December 1961, he graduated from Seoul Methodist Theological Seminary. After working as a local minister, in May 1968 he was ordained as pastor in Bakuiri Methodist Church. He later served as an Air Force Chaplain for 12 years and was honorably discharged with the rank of Major. In 1976 he came to the USA as a student. He went to Liberty University, Indiana Wesleyan University, and Faith Theological Seminary. Later he received a Doctor of Ministry from Faith Theological Seminary in Philadelphia in 1985. Since 1985 he has worked as assistant to the President of the Indiana Wesleyan University and coordinator of Wesleyan Methodist Korean Church and associate pastor of Kent Baptist Church. He has been at Annandale United Methodist Church for eight years as Korean Pastor.