The Rev. Tracey Carroll has accepted the call as half-time area missioner for the Northeast Convocation.  Tracey’s ministry will focus primarily on the smaller congregations in the eastern portion of the Northeast Convocation.

Tracey is a graduate of Seabury-Western Theological Seminary and was ordained a priest in 1997, in the Diocese of San Diego.  Since then, she has served churches in the Dioceses of Upper South Carolina, Southern Ohio, Oklahoma, and Texas.  Before ordination, Tracey served in the United States Navy as a hospital corpsman and worked as a civilian psychiatric nurse and social work assistant. In addition to her new half-time position as area missioner, Tracey will continue as half-time priest-in- charge at St Michael and all Angels Episcopal Church in Longview Texas, where she has served since December of 2019.  Tracey is married to Bill Carroll, who is rector of Trinity Episcopal Church in Longview. They have two adult children, Rachel and Danny. Tracey's hobbies include reading, playing with her two dogs, and trying to become a better ukulele player.

After an initial pilot from 2017—2019 in the Northeast Convocation, the Area Mission initiative was launched in 2020 with the Rev. Andrew Terry serving as area missioner for the Central Convocation. 

Area Mission is a congregational vitality ministry of the Mission Amplification.  Area Missioners serve as conduits between existing congregations (with an emphasis on congregations in more rural areas without full-time clergy) and their community.  The area missioner facilitates congregations’ discernment of their unique ministry with their local area and assists them in making connections with community stakeholders as well as other congregations.