Shaynor grew up in Dallas, TX and went on to Waco, TX where he earned a B.S. in Ecology from Baylor University. After graduating he spent a year as an intern with an inner-city para-church ministry during which time he met Heather who was finishing her Junior year at Baylor. They married in June the next year and have now been married for eleven years. They have a son, Jonathan (5), who considers the "RUF kids", as he calls them, as his own personal playmates.

Heather earned both B.S. and M.S. degrees in Economics from Baylor, and then she went on to teach economics for six years at Baylor. She is currently teaching Macroeconomics and Microeconomics at New Mexico State.

Shaynor graduated from Truett Seminary, Baylor in December 2000 and was ordained to the gospel ministry in the Presbyterian Church in America in February 2003. He is beginning his fourth year as the RUF campus minister, and both he and Heather are grateful to be ministering in RUF because of its strong commitment to proclaiming the glory of God revealed in the gospel of Jesus to the campus.

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