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Rev. Myungim Kim became a pastor through the grace of God and her mother’s prayer.  In her early years, she often found her mother praying on her knees in the kitchen during middle of the night. When she asked her mother what was she praying for, her mother answered that she was praying for her children.  It touched Myungim’s heart deeply, so she told her mother that she wanted to become a mother like her, a mother who prays for her children every day.  Her mother replied, “I do not want you to live like me.  I want you to become a person who prays not only for her children but for other people.”

            Myungim was born and grew up in Seoul, Korea. In 1987, she graduated from Methodist Theological Seminary in Korea, majoring in Christian Education. She came to the United States in 1989. In 1996, she entered Drew Theological School as a Master of Divinity student to be ready to answer the call from God.  During the 3 years of her seminary, she worked as a youth minister.  After she graduated with honors from the seminary, she was in campus ministry at Centenary College as a chaplain for three years, and she also served Newton United Methodist Church as the Assistant Pastor at the same time.  She moved to Totowa United Methodist Church in 2002 as the pastor in charge. She is currently studying for her Doctor of Ministry degree at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington D.C.  Now, Myungim and her family are very excited to move to Pennington serving God and God’s people through various ministries.

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A native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin Rebecca studied at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she graduated with a B.A. in French with an opportunity to study abroad for a year at the Université de Provence in France.  She then entered Boston University where she earned a Master of Divinity.  During her time in Boston, she completed a field education placement at Harvard Epworth United Methodist Church and Clinical Pastoral Education at New England Baptist Hospital.  Additionally, she had also volunteered for 2 ½ years with the Outdoor Church of Cambridge, a ministry with the people, primarily homeless, on the streets of Cambridge.  She has spent the past two years working at non-profit organizations, including as a case manager for Travelers Aid Family Services in Boston and in customer service for the Girl Scouts of Central & Southern NJ, Inc. 

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Anne Hege joined the PUMC Staff in 2008 as Choir Director.  She directs the Chancel Choir and the Alleluia Choir.  Born in Oakland, CA, Anne received her Bachelor degree from Wesleyan University in Connecticut with honors in music where she studied conducting with Melvin Strauss and served as the assistant conductor of the Wesleyan Singers and Concert Choir. In 2000, Hege founded the Albany Community Chorus who performed a range of works including Faure’s Requiem. She has studied conducting in the Advanced Choral Conducting workshop with Marika Kuzma at UC Berkeley and has taught sight singing and vocal technique for choral directors in the Diplomado program in Mexico City. As a composer, she received her MA in music composition and the Elizabeth Mills Crothers Prize from Mills College in 2003. She has composed works for film, instillation art, chorus, and instruments. As a vocalist, she performs regularly in her performance duos "New Prosthetics" which combines video, electronics and vocals, and "Sidecar" which presents art songs in a theatrical and modern setting. Anne Hege is currently a doctoral fellow working towards a PhD in music composition at Princeton University. 

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Lay Leader (Liaison between Pastor and congregation)

Stephen leads the Adult Sunday School class along with his additional sutites:

• Ordained Deacon by the United Methodist Church.
• Chaplain at Capital Health Systems, Greter Trenton New Jersey.
• Published author:

Beyond the Matrix: Revolutions and Revelations

Publisher: Chalice Press (March 2004)

ISBN-10: 0827202350