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Pastor Kelly Lyn was appointed to White Plains in June 2004.  Her previous pastoral appointments include Warsaw UMC and St. Paul UMC in Goldsboro, NC.  She is honored to share in ministry alongside the people of White Plains. 

Kelly Lyn was born and raised in Kentucky and studied at Union College in Barbourville, KY double majoring in music and religion.  After graduating from college, she began full-time youth ministry at First UMC in Ashland, KY.

In 1996, she moved to North Carolina to attend Duke Divinity School.  While a student at Duke, Kelly Lyn served as the youth minister at Aldersgate UMC in Durham. 

She is a proud University of Kentucky Wildcat Basketball fan, enjoys reading, cooking, playing guitar and mountain dulcimer and loves bluegrass music!  Kelly Lyn shares her home with a border collie named Noah.