About The Waynesville United Methodist Church

Reverend William O'Neal (Pastor Bill) and his family came to Waynesville United Methodist Church on July 1, 2007. He served as Associate Pastor until 1 July 2010 when he was appointed as the Lead Pastor.

Born in Missouri, Bill has always been a United Methodist. Actually, he was only a Methodist from his birth until he was three in 1968, “That’s when we became United Methodist,” he says.

Bill grew up in Kirkwood, MO and worked as a cook in one of the best Italian restaurants in the Saint Louis area while in high school. He served in the United States Air Force during the first Gulf War. He holds a BS in Business Management, graduating Magna Cum Laude from Wilmington College in Delaware. He also holds an associate in Maintenance Production Management from the Community College of the Air Force. Bill graduated from Saint Paul School of Theology in January of 2007 with a Masters in Divinity and was ordained as an elder in the United Methodist Church on 5 June 2010..

Prior to going into the ministry, Bill worked in sales and marketing. He owned a small farm in Ava, MO where he raised horse, chickens, peacocks, rabbits and other animals that you can’t really do much with. He sold the farm along with the animals so that he could begin Seminary in Kansas City. While in Seminary, Bill was the associate pastor at Pleasant Hill United Methodist Church from 2004-2007. Waynesville UMC is his second appointment since first starting the ministry.

He is married to the very beautiful, fun and gracious Dawn O’Neal. They have three kids – Ashley, Jonathon and Grace. Bill’s hobbies have been working out, fishing, hunting, horse back riding and reading. It’s a good thing that reading is one of his hobbies because that’s all he had time for up in Pleasant Hill, what with attending Seminary full-time, holding a ¾ appointment (which means working full-time but showing 30 hours on paper) as associate pastor and having a family.

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Reverend Pam Jackson (Pastor Pam) came to Waynesville July 1, 2010 to serve as ¾ time Associate Pastor to WUMC.  This is Pam’s first appointment as a Licensed Local Pastor.

 Pam grew up as an Air Force “brat” living in Mississippi, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Spain, and Texas.  Pam and her husband, Rune’ moved to Missouri, along with their daughter Lindsay in 1989 to own and operate a small business on Lake Pomme de Terre in Hickory County.

 Pam is a Registered Nurse and has served in multiple settings in her career as a nurse; nursing home, hospital, physician’s office, home health and after selling their business she served as Health Educator for the Hickory County Health Department. 

 Having been raised in a different tradition Pam came to “Methodism” in 2006 and served as Adult Ministries Leader and Lay Speaker at Prairie Chapel UMC and as a Certified Lay Speaker for the Ozarks North District then pursued the path to full time ministry.

Pam’s husband Rune’ is a professional truck driver.  Their only child, Lindsay, is married to Jason Webb and they live outside of Little Rock AR.

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