Rev. Rachel Breyer Mulgrave

Director of Faith Formation & Discipleship

revrachel@jcpcusa.org
(480)773-8657

Bachelor of Arts in Theology, 2014
Azusa Pacific University

Master of Divinity, 2019
Columbia Theological Seminary

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Rev. Rachel Breyer Mulgrave joined the JCPC family in September 2024. Rachel was ordained as a Resident Chaplain at Emory University Hospital Midtown in December 2019 where she served as spiritual and emotional support for the NICU, Medical ICU, Ontology, and Sickle Cell Units. She then served as the Chaplain to both Philips Tower (Decatur, GA) and Calvin Court (Atlanta, GA), both of which are independent senior living facilities under Presbyterian Homes of Georgia. Rachel served a year long fellowship in Mission at Holy Cross Hospital (Trinity Health) in Silver Spring, Maryland before returning to Georgia to join the staff at JCPC.

Rachel serves the Presbytery of Greater Atlanta on the Committee on Preparation for Ministry and was a Commissioner at the 225th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in Louisville, Kentucky.

Rachel was born in California and grew up in Gilbert, Arizona. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Theology with a concentration in Church History from Azusa Pacific University in 2014. She attended Fuller Theological Seminary before transferring to Columbia Theological Seminary where she graduated in 2019 and was the recipient of the Paul T. Furmann Award in Church History. 

Rachel and her husband Christopher live in Decatur, GA with their two cats - Cooper & Elliot. Rachel is an avid fan of the Atlanta Hawks and Arizona Diamondbacks. Rachel loves baking, gardening, comedy, podcasts, and has a goal of visiting every Major League Baseball park in the MLB (she's over halfway there!). 

Rachel’s theological interests include post-evangelicalism, faith deconstruction, Søren Kierkegaard, and the spirituality of comedy.