Just Call Me Leah with Bishop Emerita Leah Hidde Gregory

Bishop Leah is coming back to MidTexas to serve full-time as the Conference Superintendent. STG is grateful for her continual service and leadership. Her ministry inspired the name for this podcast. Her continual support and guest appearances are a primary means for the reach of STG. To God be the glory for servants of Christ like Bishop Leah.

Bishop Leah Hidde-Gregory provided episcopal leadership within the Global Methodist Church and was assigned to the Annual Conferences in the Northeast, South Georgia, Bulgaria, Mexico, and the new emerging conference of Latin America. She played a vital role to launch the MidTexas Conference, its organization, and ongoing development. Working collaboratively with a strong leadership team, she helped establish the conference’s foundational structures, mission priorities, and operational systems.

Prior to her service in the Global Methodist Church, Bishop Gregory ministered as a laywoman in the Oklahoma Conference and as an ordained pastor in the North Texas and Central Texas Conferences of The United Methodist Church. She also served six years as a District Superintendent and as Director of New Church Starts and Church Growth in the Central Texas Conference. During the denomination’s transitional season, she was a member of the Transitional Leadership Council throughout its entirety and served for a time as chair.

Bishop Gregory is deeply committed to the proclamation of the gospel and the renewal of the Church through orthodox Wesleyan theology. Much of her ministry has focused on church revitalization, revival, leadership development, and sustainable church growth. She is passionate about seeing congregations awakened to vibrant discipleship and mission, and she remains grateful for the movement of the Holy Spirit within the Global Methodist Church.

She holds a Doctor of Ministry in Church Leadership Excellence from Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C.; a Master of Divinity from Perkins School of Theology; and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Sociology from Texas A&M University–Commerce.

Leah is married to her husband, Stan. Together, they share a deep love for family and ministry. They have two grown daughters and sons-in-law, two grandbabies, and a son, Will, who is a sophomore in college.