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.

Sermon Series

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.”

Sept 20th - " Mercy Continues" Jonah 3:10-4:11. Responsive Reading: UMH 828 Psalm 105:1-6

Sept 27th - Laity Sunday—Guest Speaker Sean Gray preaching Matthew 21:23-32

Oct. 4th - World Communion Sunday-- "The Christian Ethic of Imitation" Philippians 2:1-13. UMH 799 Psalm 78:1-4

Oct. 11th - Guest Speaker: Rev. Carol Wilson

October 18th - "The Image We Bear" Matthew 22:15-22. UMH 819 Psalm 99:1-5

October 25th - "Living into the Beatitudes" Matthew 5:1-12. UMH 747 Psalm 15:1-5

November 1st - All Saints Sunday – "The Communion of Saints" Scripture: Luke 6:20-31