Welcome, Pastor Kristin!

We are so happy to welcome Pastor Kristin Engstrom as our interim pastor during Pastor Jay’s sabbatical. Pastor Kristin most recently served as the Country Coordinator for the ELCA Young Adults in Global Mission (YAGM) program in Senegal, West Africa from 2016 until March 2021. A graduate of Mankato West High School, she studied at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. After being ordained by the ELCA in 2009, Pastor Kristin served two different parishes in northern New Jersey for six years, and then accepted the call to coordinate the YAGM program in Senegal. When COVID precautions put the YAGM program on pause, Pastor Kristin returned to Mankato and is currently seeking where God will call her to serve next. She is honored to serve as interim pastor at Bethlehem while Pastor Jay is on sabbatical until August 1.