Hello there!
If you are here, I hope that means that the Lord is leading you to find a church family – and maybe that place is Bethany Presbyterian Church. So, let me introduce myself. I’m Pastor Charmaine Pannell.
I am a pastor, a mother – to one sweet boy, Caleb, and wife to an amazing husband, Aaron. And we live in Clinton, S.C.
While I have lived in South Carolina since 2000, I am a native of Tennessee. I was born in Nashville, was raised in Mississippi and Florida, and then made it back to Tennessee for my college studies – at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. My first career was in the newspaper business. (That may age me a little bit. 😉)
I worked as a newspaper reporter for the Independent-Mail in Anderson, S.C., for 16 years, covering crime, courts, local politics and writing profiles on ordinary people doing extraordinary things. But in 2010, after two years as a children and youth leader at my home church, Midway Presbyterian Church, I felt the Lord nudging me to attend seminary. 
In 2017, I graduated from Union Presbyterian Seminary in Charlotte, N.C. A year later, in June 2018, I was ordained into full-time ministry. Now I serve three church families: Bethany Presbyterian Church, Lydia Presbyterian Church and Todd Memorial Presbyterian Church – all in Laurens County, South Carolina.
I love small-town America, and I love Jesus. I serve the Lord as a pastor because I believe it is what He has called me to do. 
I believe God is sovereign, that Jesus is His Only Son and Our Beloved Savior and through His Holy Spirit, we are equipped and empowered, as His people, to build up His Kingdom here on Earth as it is in Heaven. I preach – not just because I’ve read His Word and went to seminary – but because I know Him personally in my life.
I am a country, mountain girl at heart with a love for music (bluegrass, country and old-school rhythm and blues are my favorites), a love for books and a love for stories. My ancestors are Scottish and Irish. I have Methodist, Baptist and Pentecostal spiritual roots. I am Reformed in my theology and Holy-Spirit led. 
So, if you’ve ever heard the phrase that Presbyterian folks are “God’s chosen frozen” people, just know that I am, indeed, chosen. But there’s nothing in my spirit that is frozen. Now, if you want to know more about me, you’ll have to come to worship one Sunday to find out more. I hope to see you there! 😉