Welcome to Rev. Gracie Gray

Pastor Gracie is eager to join in ministry alongside the people of St. Paul UMC. Originally born in Chattanooga, TN, and a lifelong United Methodist, she is passionate about helping cultivate loving and welcoming church spaces for all people. She graduated from Carson-Newman University in 2018 with a Bachelor's degree in Religion and a minor in music, and later attended Candler School of Theology at Emory University, earning her Master's of Divinity in 2021.

She has served in the Holston Conference since 2020 and was ordained as an elder in full connection in June 2025. In her free time, Pastor Gracie enjoys singing, watching musicals and movies, and taking walks in the neighborhood with her husband Sean. Pastor Gracie and Sean were recently married in December of 2025. Both Sean and Gracie, along with their cat, Dunkin', are excited about this new chapter of ministry in Wytheville. 

As we transition from summer to fall, we are called back together to work out how we will live in community as a witness to our faith. As a refresher, we ask you to consider these “Lessons in Leadership” as a way of shaping the body we seek to be. This is not a how-to with specifics for each communal situation, but an attitude check, a value inventory to ask who we will be together as we build up the church. We invite you to join us for “Lessons in Leadership.”

August 23rd- "Power"- Exodus 1:8-2:10 (Responsive Reading: Psalm 124 UMH 846)
August 30th- "Acceptance"- Matthew 16:21-28 (Psalm 105:1-6 UMH 828)
September 6th- "Conflict"- Exodus 12:1-14 and Matthew 18:15-20 (no responsive reading, but I will ask Mike, in place of the responsive reading, to read Exodus 12:1-14)
September 13th- "Grace"- Matthew 18:21-35 (Psalm 114 UMH 835)