Jay Messenger is the lead pastor for Grace Community Church of Gresham. Jay is a member of the elder team, leads the Grace preaching team, and leads, develops and deploys the Grace staff team to help advance our mission of loving God, loving people, reaching people and developing people. He is a graduate of Southern Oregon University and is pursing a Master’s of Divinity at Western Seminary. Jay is married to his high school sweetheart Jamie and they have three incredible kids, Kiana, Kylen and Kailea. The Messenger’s have been a part of the Grace family since August of 2005. Jay enjoys sports of all kinds, fitness, reading, home repair/remodeling and spending time with Jamie and thier kids.