Pastor Jeri Gray-Reneberg is a graduate of Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota, and holds a master of Divinity degree. Her undergraduate degrees are in English and History, from California Lutheran university. She was ordained in 1987 in an Episcopal and Lutheran congregation in the Denver area, and has served Lutheran and ecumenical congregations as pastor and clergy supply, in Colorado, Iowa, Nebraska and California. She has several years' experience working in the domestic violence field and in journalism; sings and plays the piano, organ and guitar; has written domestic violence resources for the general population and religious communities, and youth curricula and articles for Group Publishing; and has participated in chancel drama and community theater. She is married and has two daughters.

Pastor Jeri is active in both the Episcopal diocese and the Lutheran synod. She serves on the planning committee for Camp Living Waters, a local Episcopal summer camp of the Diocese of Northern California. She is also the Sierra Pacific Synod Dean of the Redwood Conference of the Sierra Pacific Synod. She has been involved with Six Rivers Planned parenthood, as a past board member and as a past and present member of the Clergy for Choice.

She is happy to be serving St. Francis' under the terms of "Called to Common Mission," a historic agreement regarding pulpit and altar fellowship, and the exchange of clergy, between The Epsicopal Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.