Paul Wollner
Senior Pastor

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Kathy Chartier
Interim Pastor

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Jackie Hardy,
Secretary
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Lena Duncan,
Office Assistant & Financial Secretary
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Andrew Pittman,
Director of Music
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Susan Sturkie,
Organist
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Melanie Lalumondier,
Day School Director
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Kathy O'Quinn,
Children's Choir Coordinator
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Joey Allison,
Sexton
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Pastor Paul Wollner
:  Pastor Paul Wollner was called to serve as the fifth Senior Pastor of Good Shepherd on December 13, 2009 and looks forward to what God has in store for the ministries of Good Shepherd in the years to come. He and his wife Katherine, their sons Luke and Grant, are excited about growing in faith and fellowship with their Good Shepherd family.

:  Pastor Paul was ordained at Christ Chapel at the Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary in Columbia, South Carolina on June 19, 2005. Prior to his ordination, he received his Masters of Divinity from LTSS. As part of his seminary experience, Pastor Wollner served as Intern at All Saints Lutheran Church in Huntsville, Alabama, as Youth Director at Zion Lutheran Church in Lexington, South Carolina, and as a Chaplain at The University of North Carolina Hospitals. He comes to Good Shepherd after serving for five years as the pastor of Mt. Pilgrim Lutheran Church in Prosperity, South Carolina.

:  Pastor Paul is originally from Altamonte Springs, Florida. He was introduced to the idea of being a pastor at an early age when his pastors at St. Stephen Lutheran Church in Longwood encouraged him to think about ministry. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Florida. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, balancing his studies with his passion for Gator Football and Basketball. During his college summers, he served as a counselor at Lutheridge in Arden, North Carolina. It was there he met his wife Katherine.

:  Pastor Paul looks forward to meeting you and walking together on your journey of faith.

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Pastor Kathy Chartier
:  Born in 1946 and raised in the northeastern United States, Pastor Chartier was baptized and confirmed in the Roman Catholic Church. She was surrounded by the love of a large extended family. She graduated from an all girls’ Catholic High School in Philadelphia in 1963 and in 1978 came to Redeemer Lutheran Church in Columbia and saw with new eyes the Gospel and God’s love for her in Jesus Christ. She entered the Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary in 1984. (Her previous career was as a computer programmer analyst for South Carolina National Bank.) Graduating in 1988 from LTSS in Columbia, SC, she received a call to Christ Lutheran Church - Denny Terrace, Columbia, SC where she served for 8 years. She next received a call to serve as Assistant to the Bishop in August of 1996 where she served for 12 years. Pastor Chartier is now serving as Assistant Pastor for Pastoral Care at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Columbia.

:  She has been married for 44 years to Robert L. Chartier, an architect who works with the facilities design of Palmetto Hospital System. They have parented two children, Sean Kenneth Chartier who lives in Kansas City and Robyn Chartier Crotwell who died of cancer in 2004. Pastor Chartier and her husband love to be with their grandchildren, Cameron, Donovan, Carol Lynn and Lottie. She loves the work she is called to and enjoys movies, sewing, working in the yard, reading historical novels, learning to play the piano and travel.

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