Pastor Diana Hagewood Smith

Rev. Diana Hagewood Smith

I was born at Ft. Leonard Wood and raised in Springfield. I attended Southwest Missouri State University, where I received a B.A. in Classical Antiquities in 1980. I received my Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1984, and was ordained as a United Methodist minister in 1985.

After serving churches in New Jersey for almost twenty years, I returned to the Springfield area in 2003. I’ve been at Grace since 2008 and I am loving being the pastor here. This is a congregation that is welcoming, serving, and grateful to God for the opportunity to continue our historic ministry to downtown Springfield into the 21st century. My family and I can testify that gracious hospitality is a hallmark of the Grace community.