Linda Baker Pineo, Priest

The Vestry is pleased to announce  Reverend Linda Baker Pineo has signed an Interim Letter of Agreement with Good Shepherd.

Reverend Pineo comes to us from All Saints Church in Gastonia,  where she has been Interim Rector since November, 2010. Prior to that,  she served churches in Cartersville, Oakwood, Marietta, Canton, and  Kennesaw, Georgia. She has also served parishes in Colorado and  Wyoming. She was ordained deacon June 1988 in Laramie, Wyoming, and was ordained an Episcopal priest January 1989 at St. James Church in  Kemmerer, Wyoming.

She holds a undergraduate degree in Music from Mount Holyoke College and a Master's degree in Choral Directing from Stanford  University. Linda graduated from the Episcopal Theological Seminary of  the Southwest in Austin, Texas in 1988. She has taken a Specialized  Training Program in Interim Ministry which she completed in 1990.

Linda is currently a Spiritual Director for the Atlanta Episcopal Cursillo Community and has served as a member of the Diocese of Atlanta  Commission on Liturgy. She also served as Diocesan Chaplain of the  Daughters of the King in the Diocese of Atlanta from 1997 to 2000.

Linda is married to Charles Chipman Pineo III, a science teacher in the Cherokee County, Georgia School System. They have two children,  Elizabeth Baker Pineo, age 30, and Charles Roger Pineo, age 23. Linda serves under the Diocese of Atlanta and her permanent home is Woodstock, Georgia.

Turner Guidry, Deacon

Turner was born in Baton Rouge, LA, in  1947. He attended Louisiana State University, and received a BA from  Centenary College of LA. He went on to get a Masters Degree in Clinical  Psychology from Stephen F. Austin State University. Turner has been a  life-long Episcopalian.

Turner and his family moved to Hayesville  in 1974 and started attending Good Shepherd at that time. He has worked  continually for the Clay County School System since 1974 as a teacher  and the school psychologist.

Turner and his wife, Georgia, have six  children and nine grandchildren. Georgia also works in the school system as a Special Education teacher.

Turner was ordained to the permanent diaconate in 1997, and since then has been serving in healing and youth  ministries within the church and Hayesville community.