Meet the Gardners

We’re the Gardner Family: Gray, Jen, Charlotte, Finley, Joelle, and Millie

As residents of Rock Hill and natives of South Carolina, we are thrilled to begin pursuing the call to plant a new church in the community we call home. Our passion is to see people come alive to the life-changing message of the Gospel, engage in deep discipleship and community, and participate in God’s mission to bring hope and healing to this broken world.

Gray will serve as the lead planter/pastor of this new church (which is yet to be named!). He has most recently served as an executive and campus pastor at Forest Hill Church in Charlotte, NC, and has over a decade of ministry serving across three different churches in student, college, and discipleship ministries. Gray is passionate about helping people grow a robust faith in Jesus Christ through biblical preaching and teaching, as well as mobilizing people to live out their faith everywhere they live, learn, work and play.

As a family, our prayer is that God uses this new church to reach people who are far from God, awaken sleepy Christians to the abundant life Christ has for them, and multiply disciples, leaders, and churches across Rock Hill, our broader community, and to the ends of the earth.

We can’t wait to join the incredible churches and ministries that are already doing great work in Rock Hill so that we see this community saturated with the Gospel of Jesus Christ!