Pastor Christine Pelfrey began her call as the pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church on November 30, 2025. She was ordained to the Ministry of Word and Sacrament on December 6, 2025. 

She graduated from United Lutheran Seminary in May 2025 with a Master of Divinity degree and completed her candidacy through the Slovak Zion Synod. During her formation, Pastor Christine served her Field Education year at Trinity Lutheran in New Haven, Connecticut, Clinical Pastoral Education at Norwalk Hospital in Norwalk, Connecticut, and her Internship as a Vicar at Emanuel Lutheran in Hartford, Connecticut. 

Prior to seminary, Pastor Christine earned a Bachelor of Arts in Theology and Religious Studies, Magna Cum Laude, from Sacred Heart University in Fairfield in December 2019. 

Before going back to college at 41, she worked in a Hallmark store alongside her mother, in customer service, in recruiting and staffing, and most recently worked 13 years as an office manager for an independent insurance broker, specializing in Medicare and individual health insurance. While in school, Pastor Christine was also the live-in caretaker for her mom for roughly eight years until her mom’s death in 2022.

She is the youngest of seven children and was raised Roman Catholic, but her family’s faith roots are Catholic, Baptist, Pentecostal, Lutheran, and Anglican. Originally from Ridgewood, New Jersey she also spent a few years living in Overland Park, Kansas. From there, she moved to Stratford, Connecticut in 1985 and currently resides in Milford, Connecticut with her two sons, Eugene and Andrew. Andrew’s fiancée Jess and her son Zaine have been a joyful addition to the family for several years now and they have July 2026 wedding planned. 

In her spare time, Pastor Christine loves to bake cookies and to read, often re-reading old favorites. She also loves to write, to crochet, and to cross-stitch. An avid movie fan, she enjoys a good scary movie, classic films, and has a special fondness for the artistic genius of Hayao Miyazaki’s films.  She cherishes her vacation time spent wandering the empty beaches of Cape Cod during the off-season.