Rev. Ann Jahnes
ajahnes@southportpresbyterian.com
910-457-6811
The Rev. Ann Jahnes has been a Presbyterian minister for twenty-six years. Prior to attending seminary, Ann was a lay minister in Iona, Scotland, where she served as a senior staff member for the Iona Abbey, an ecumenical Christian community and retreat center. The Abbey’s focus of community life and pattern of daily worship shaped Ann’s personal faith and ministry with enduring influence. Her first pastorate was at the American Church in Paris, an international and interdenominational ministry that truly represented the diversity of the global church. Ann moved from this metropolitan city to North Carolina, where she became the pastor of Yadkinville Presbyterian Church. Each member contributed to that congregation’s ministry, truly representing the priesthood of all believers. Ann was dedicated to encouraging each person to develop his or her own gifts. Later, God called her to serve as campus minister at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Just as Jesus dedicated his ministry in homes and the marketplace, campus ministry reminds us that Christian service takes place outside the walls of the sanctuary. It is important to Ann that the church has a vital ministry in the community and the world. For the past ten years Ann has served as the pastor for mission and education at St. Andrews-Covenant Presbyterian Church, Wilmington. She describes her ministry there as "journey inward, journey outward," strengthening discipleship through serving and understanding. She began her ministry with Southport Presbyterian Church January 1, 2010.
Ann is dedicated to faith seeking understanding. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Religion and Philosophy from Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida and a Master of Arts Diploma in Ecumenical Relations from St. Mary’s College of Divinity at St. Andrews University, Scotland. Ann’s Master of Divinity degree is from Princeton Theological Seminary, with a concentration in the History of Religion. She is in the final stage of completing her Doctor of Ministry degree from Columbia Theological Seminary. Ann’s focus in her doctoral studies has been the practice of spiritual formation through Christian retreat and pilgrimage, a journey of faith she looks forward to sharing with Southport Presbyterian Church.
Ann and her husband, Bob, were married in Iona, Scotland in 1979. They are parents of four children. Jay and his wife Heather live in Greensboro. Heather is an attorney and Jay supervises a residential treatment program for adolescents. Ann and Bob’s daughter, Catherine, lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, where she is an associate for a foundation that funds non-profit organizations in the Phoenix area. Their son, Nate, is a senior at North Carolina State University, majoring in Sports Management and Business. The youngest child, Liz, is a freshman at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, studying Communications. It is a great joy for their family to be together, and those times become more precious as the family grows upward and outward. Supported and encouraged by her family,
