The Rev. Penny G. Rasnake, Pastor
Penny has held several vocational Lay positions in the church including Director of Christian Education, Youth and Music, Director of Lay Ministries and Administration, and has worked on Worship Planning for the VA Annual Conference. Penny completed her Master of Divinity from Wesley Seminary in DC, and also holds degrees from Liberty University and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. She comes to Mount Vernon from Emporia, Va. She has family in Lynchburg, Va., and Harker Heights, TX. Penny loves to read, sew, sing, paint and fish. She also loves to visit her congregants and looks forward to getting to know you personally.
Her life verse(s) are Exodus 14:14 “The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still” as well as Micah 6:8 “He has told you what the Lord wants from you: He wants you to carry out justice, to love faithfulness, and to live obediently before your God.”
We are a relational people who are privileged to be invited into relationship with the living Creator of the Universe, we are called to Worship, and are to be disciples who make disciples for the transformation of the World – to God’s glory and good pleasure. Pastor Penny invites you to come and visit Mount Vernon and get involved in transforming Danville with the Love of Christ.
Beth Bauman, director of ministries to children and youth, has a degree in Christian Education from Emory and Henry College and worked with children and youth at churches in Farmville and Birmingham, Ala., before moving to Danville. She and her husband have a daughter and son-in-law and two grandchildren who live in Senegal, and a son who lives in Birmingham, Ala.
Don Haymore became the financial person for Mount Vernon in August 2022. He is a U.S. Army retiree, with 22 years of active duty service, and for 10 years before coming to Mount Vernon was the bookkeeper at Stony Mill Elementary School. Please feel free to call him at the church or email him at businessoffice.mtvernonumc@gmail.com if there is anything he can help you with.
