About
Our Pastor
Pastor Yosub Namgung is married to Minjung Kim, and they have no children yet. Pastor Yosub and Minjung love to travel, to drink coffee/tea, and to do crabbing. They joined Lower UMC in July of 2021.
Yosub Namgung was born and grew up in Taebaek, South Korea. His father is a pastor of the Korean Methodist Church. He grew up in a Methodist tradition. Even though Yosub was called when he was eighteen years old, he needed the time to explore and to confirm the calling for 15 years.
Yosub earned his Bachelor’s degree in Theology at Mokwon University in South Korea. He entered Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois, in 2006, and he graduated with M.Div degree in 2009. For further study, he enrolled at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. He returned to Korea in 2012, and he came back to Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC, in 2014 and graduated with M.A degree in 2016. He served as the associate pastor of the Arlington Korean UMC in Arlington for one year. In 2017, he was received into the Virginia Conference, and he was appointed to Bethel-St. Matthew Charge at Mathews County.
Pastor Yosub Namgung is married to Minjung Kim, and they have no children yet. Pastor Yosub and Minjung love to travel, to drink coffee/tea, and to do crabbing. They joined Lower UMC in July of 2021.
Yosub Namgung was born and grew up in Taebaek, South Korea. His father is a pastor of the Korean Methodist Church. He grew up in a Methodist tradition. Even though Yosub was called when he was eighteen years old, he needed the time to explore and to confirm the calling for 15 years.
Yosub earned his Bachelor’s degree in Theology at Mokwon University in South Korea. He entered Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois, in 2006, and he graduated with M.Div degree in 2009. For further study, he enrolled at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. He returned to Korea in 2012, and he came back to Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC, in 2014 and graduated with M.A degree in 2016. He served as the associate pastor of the Arlington Korean UMC in Arlington for one year. In 2017, he was received into the Virginia Conference, and he was appointed to Bethel-St. Matthew Charge at Mathews County.
Our History
Lower United Methodist Church is steeped in history. It began its life in 1650 as the “Lower Chapel” for the Protestant Episcopal Church of England. The chapel was replaced by the present brick sanctuary in 1717. It still retains many of its colonial features such as its original hipped roof of which very few exist today.
The church survived the Revolutionary War despite being abandoned by the parish. The Baptists and Methodists began to use it. Robert Healy helped the Methodists obtain it from the parish in 1857 and here we have remained.
We thank our forefathers for our history, but we know that a church is just a building without loving and caring people who want it to grow. Our true heritage is our people who, past and present, have opened their arms in welcome and caring. Come join us.
The church survived the Revolutionary War despite being abandoned by the parish. The Baptists and Methodists began to use it. Robert Healy helped the Methodists obtain it from the parish in 1857 and here we have remained.
We thank our forefathers for our history, but we know that a church is just a building without loving and caring people who want it to grow. Our true heritage is our people who, past and present, have opened their arms in welcome and caring. Come join us.
