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Personnel &
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John V. Winings
Interim Executive/Stated Clerk/Treasurer
 jwinings@synatlantic.org
John V. Winings has been an elder since 1978, ordained in the Youngstown Presbyterian Church (UPC) in Youngstown, NY.  Raised in Illinois and graduating from the University of Illinois with BS and MS degrees in science and business, John worked for 25 years in Occidental Petroleum and the BOC Group, PLC.  Since 1990, he has worked as a change executive in small businesses for venture capital firms to assist companies in stress — each a full time job in all respects.

Additionally, he is a charter member and first clerk of session of the Wake Forest Presbyterian Church in Wake Forest, NC, one of the 100 fastest growing churches in the denomination.  From 1995 to 1999 John served on the Synod of the Mid-Atlantic Council — as Chair of the Campus Ministries Committee and then as Chair of the Administration and Personnel Committee.  He is also a Commissioned Lay Pastor (CLP) of New Hope Presbytery.

In 1999, John left his Synod assignment to take a half-time commission to the Butner Presbyterian church as its pastor, serving in this church for three years.  He was then commissioned to the Clayton, NC new church development where he served as organizing pastor (half time) until the church was financially able to call a full time minister of word and sacrament.  particular churches — one a redevelopment church and the other a new church development.

Currently, he is the Executive Director of the Haiti Fund, Inc., a validated ministry of the Presbytery of New Hope, which supplies material and support for an agricultural sustainable development project in Haiti called CODEP, with two missionaries on site.  Concurrent with the Haiti Fund assignment, he was called as (1/2 time) as the Interim Youth Director of WFPC — a one year assignment which was completed in June, 2006.

 

Jean Hayes Archivist/Special Projects Manager  

 Jean will be missed by the faculty of Union PSCE where she has been  working for the past eleven years. She earned a B.A. in Religious Studies from Virginia University of Lynchburg and is presently pursuing her master’s there.  

   

Cindy Hollingshead Finance Manager

Cindy’s job history includes setting up financial software systems,  assisting several churches with financial training and serving as church finance person through transitional times. For the past nine years she has worked as staff accountant for The Presbytery of the James. She received her B.S. in Accounting at UNC in Charlotte .

 

Janice Chick

Office Manager

 

Janice recently moved from Culpeper , VA where she has been working as the Finance & Medical Records Manager for a non-profit hospice for eleven years.  She has three years’ undergraduate work with a concentration in religious studies/psychology at TCC & Virginia Wesleyan.