Pastor Becky McGee graduated from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary in 2009 and is serving in her first appointment to the Painter-Quinby charge.  This charge is comprised of Painter-Garrison’s UMC in Painter, VA and Smith’s Chapel UMC in Quinby, VA.  Pastor Becky and her husband Mark McGee live in the Painter-Garrison’s UMC parsonage.  They both appreciate how incredibly warm and welcoming the congregations have been and continue to be to them. 

Pastor Becky’s understanding of ministry is founded on the ministry of Jesus Christ. Jesus seemed to spend a lot of time with people who were considered outsiders in their society. He ministered to women, lepers, tax collectors, and an adulteress. He made a Samaritan the role model in one of his parables. Jesus treated all of these people with the dignity they deserved as the children of God which they were. To minister to people seems to imply that we need to look at the Christ in the person rather than the labels which we apply to people. Galatians 3:28 sums this up when Paul says “There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” I believe that Jesus’ hospitality towards society’s outcasts and marginal people serves as the model to how openly welcoming the church and its ministries should be to all people. The categories and labels we put on people should not overshadow the fact that our true identity rests in being a beloved child of God. That, to her, is the ideal way in which we are to look at one another and therefore treat one another.