Thank you for your fair conclusions regarding Dr. Bob Gray’s ministry. I fondly and firmly remember Brother Gray praying and preaching esp. Sunday evenings the Book of Romans in the mid- 1970’s. I was saved by the Lord Jesus Christ when I attended Trinity in 1975 while stationed with the Navy in Jacksonville. I became the true Trinity Christian: running a bus route in north Jacksonville, attending evening Trinity Baptist College classes, tithing, soul-winning on Thursday evenings and never missing a worship service.

I am sicked but not surprised by the molestation history I am now reading about Brother Gray. He truly “walked on water” in the Trinity Baptist community in the 1970’s. This preacher was gifted unlike any I have witnessed since leaving Jacksonville in 1977.

Unfortunately, this appears to be a time Brother Gray was molesting without impunity. This was also a time of hard financial times for the teachers at Trinity Academy, when at Sunday evening service Brother Gray told the teachers there were no funds at the Academy to make their paychecks. Seriously, he would make them a loan. Who would of thought those dedicated teachers going unpaid were probably listening to the molester of one of their students.

What sickens me now, because I will never understand the pain and suffering of Brother Gray’s victims, is the memory of the first Mrs. Gray smiling setting in the choir and their children in the fold up seats we sat in a gym because we had no church sanctuary. Regarding the second Mrs. Gray, Sylvia Montgomery, I have never known a finer christian person and I pray for Jesus’s healing and peace for Sylvia.

Your’s in Jesus Christ,

Jeff Stovall