[2][3] Gray was a counselor in the presidency of the LDS Church's Genesis Group when it was formed in 1971.
Gray was also the co-director (with Marie Taylor) of the Freedmens Bank Records project for the church's Family History Department.
Utah's NAACP honored him with its Martin Luther King Jr. award in 2008, and the Iota Iota chapter of Omega Psi Phi fraternity honored him as "Citizen of the Year" in 2011.
Gray has also served as a developer of the website blacklds.org[7] and on the advisory board of Reach the Children, a humanitarian organization designed to help people in Africa.
[8] Gray was among those involved in Developing the "Race and the Priesthood" essay[9] published on the website of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in December 2013.