Meet Our Pastor:
About Dave Allen Grady
Dave Allen Grady is a transplant from "the west." He was raised in rural Alabama by parents who were Southern Baptists; they joined a United Methodist church when he was a young teenager. When he went to the University of Alabama he was involved with the Wesley Foundation, and soon began working as a camp counselor.
A year after graduation he began seminary at The Candler School of Theology, where he earned both a certificate in Christian Education and an Master of Divinity degree. While there he worked as Director of Youth Ministries at Briarcliff UMC and helped found the St. Benedict Chapter of the Order of St. Luke at Candler.
Dave's appointive ministry began in the UK. He was on the pastoral staff in the Sheffield District of the Methodist Church of Great Britain. Upon returning to the North Alabama Conference in 2000, he served as Associate Pastor of Scottsboro First UMC, and then transferred to the North Georgia Conference to marry Susan Allen, who is now pastor at St. Paul's UMC in Grant Park. For four years Dave was associate minister at Mt. Bethel UMC, where he was responsible for pastoral care and evangelism, and ministered to singles and young adults. He was ordained Elder in 2003, and was soon appointed to serve the St. Luke congregation in South Cobb; he comes to Druid Hills from Avondale Pattillo UMC.
Through his activities as Chair of the Conference Advocacy Team in the North Georgia Conference Dave witnesses in the areas of social justice, witness, and advocacy related to ethnicity and gender; in ecumenical and interfaith conversations; and in environmental stewardship.
Dave serves on the Board of Intown Collaborative Ministries, Georgia Pastors' School, and has recently been elected as a member of the delegation to represent the North Georgia Conference at the 2012 Jurisdictional Conference.
Dave believes that church "is a place where we uniquely extend and receive hospitality that surpasses our wildest expectations, and transcends barriers. We experience this in worship and rehearse it daily in the various ways we live out our lives."
Dave is married to Susan Allen Grady. She is pastor of St. Paul UMC in Grant Park. Their daughter, Joy, attends Druid Hills United Methodist Preschool.
Church "is a place where we uniquely extend and receive hospitality that surpasses our wildest expectations, and transcends barriers. We experience this in worship and rehearse it daily in the various ways we live out our lives."
--Dave Allen Grady
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