Illustrious H. Jack Yost, 33°, Sovereign Grand Inspector General in West Virginia, has just announced that Vicar John R. Unger, II, 32° KCCH, Majority Leader of the West Virginia State Senate has accepted the appointment to be Orient Chaplain for the Scottish Rite in West Virginia.

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John is a Pastor in the Lutheran Church and serving as Vicar of the historic Civil War church St. John’s Lutheran Church in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.

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He has worked extensively in Refugee work in Hong Kong as well as helping to provide relief to Kurdish refugees in Southern Turkey and Northern Iraq working with orphanages, children’s hospitals, senior care homes and homes for the mentally disabled. John served with Mother Teresa in Calcutta for more than a year. While in Hong Kong, he also assisted as an advisor to various governmental agencies prior to the change of government.

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John serves the Chaplaincy Service at Jefferson Memorial Hospital in Ranson, and City Hospital in Martinsburg, WV.

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Vicar Unger holds Degrees in Liberal Arts/Biology, Philosophy, Politics and Economics and currently enrolled in the Master of Divinity Program at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D. C..

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He and his wife Cara reside in Martinsburg, West Virginia.