Rev. Rachel Breyer Mulgrave
Co-Pastor & Head of Staff
Pastor Rachel will be on Maternity Leave from November 2026 - February 2027.
If you need to speak to a pastor during this time, please contact Pastor George.
revrachel@jcpcusa.org
(480)773-8657
Bachelor of Arts in Theology, 2014
Concentration in Church History
Azusa Pacific University
Master of Divinity, 2019
Columbia Theological Seminary
Fuller Theological Seminary
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Rev. Rachel Breyer Mulgrave joined the JCPC family in September 2024, became Co-Pastor in October 2025 and President of the Preschool Board in April 2026. 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 worked in Mission at Holy Cross Hospital (Trinity Health) in Silver Spring, Maryland before returning to Georgia to join the staff at JCPC.
Rachel served 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 grew up in California and 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 Columbia Theological Seminary where she graduated in 2019 and was the recipient of the Paul T. Furmann Award in Church History.
Rachel is an avid fan of the Atlanta Hawks and Arizona Diamondbacks. Rachel loves baking, gardening, comedy, and podcasts. Her and her husband have a goal of visiting every Major League Baseball park in the MLB (they’re over halfway there!).
Rachel’s theological interests include post-evangelicalism, faith deconstruction, Søren Kierkegaard, and the spirituality of comedy.
