You could use a static object to persist your credentials considering that those credentials are stored in your config file and as you have mentioned they do not change. Related to the WCF REST aspect, you could really simply your life by using WebAPI the new REST "framework" from Microsoft. WCF is kind of clumsy when it comes to REST.
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