Spiritual Care Team

Meet Our Spiritual Care Team

Prelude Ministries takes the calling of Serving Seniors, Supporting Caregivers and Sharing Christ seriously. Our teammates are full-time credentialed Pastors. We have a goal of engaging a Pastor for every 30 residents, their families and respective staff. This low Pastor-to-resident ratio ensures deliberate and regular individual connections as well as time for impactful formal ministry activities.

The staff we met with felt different, they felt genuinely compassionate...
- Julie

Pastor Ayla Litsenberger

Executive Director of Prelude Ministries

The Executive Director provides executive leadership for the day-to-day operations and long-term strategic direction of Prelude Ministries, ensuring organizational stability, ministry excellence, and sustainable growth while advancing the mission of bringing the hope and comfort of Christ to residents, families, and staff in senior care environments. The Executive Director oversees operations, staffing, ministry systems, and supports pastors. This role collaborates closely with Memory Care & Assisted Living leadership to integrate ministry seamlessly within care communities, recruits and develops qualified pastors and chaplains, establishes clear ministry standards and spiritual care practices, and ensures ongoing training, mentoring, evaluation, and continuous improvement across all spiritual care programs.

Pastor Steve Schramm

Director of Spiritual Care

The Director of Spiritual Care guides the spiritual life of Prelude Ministries, ensuring that worship, pastoral visits, and programs reflect Christ’s love while honoring the dignity and unique needs of seniors living with memory loss. Working alongside the Executive Director, this role supports and equips pastors to provide consistent, compassionate, dementia-informed spiritual care across all communities. Through the Prelude Alliance, the Director also builds partnerships with senior and memory care communities to extend spiritual care to residents, families, and caregivers where it would not otherwise exist.

Pastor Linda Boyadjis

Campus Pastor - White Bear Lake

Pastor Linda Boyadjis first entered into ministry part-time as a congregational pastoral assistant and a Chaplain Intern at The University of Minnesota Medical Center in the Newborn Intensive Care Department in 2009. After graduating from Bethel Theological Seminary and receiving her ordination as a Lutheran pastor, she began her journey in full-time ministry in 2015 as a Chaplain resident at Park Nicollet Methodist Hospital for Palliative Care. In 2016, she served as a Spiritual Care Director at St. Anthony Health & Rehab and Chandler Place Assisted Living. God led her to Prelude Ministries in 2021 where she currently serves as a Campus Pastor at our White Bear Lake, MN location. Pastor Linda is married to her husband George; they have three children and four grandsons. They also have a family dog who is a doodle named Basil who she often brings to visit the residents of White Bear.

When asked what she loves about her spiritual care role at Prelude Ministries, she said, "It is an honor to bring the love of the Lord through Word and Sacrament to His Children that live with dementia and other illnesses. Guiding the residents to lay the troubles from their previous decades at the feet of Jesus and peacefully enjoy the true love of the Lord is a blessing. Their transformation can be amazing. And while life can still be a struggle, they come to know they have Christ by their side walking with them along with the staff at Prelude."

Contact Pastor Linda
lboyadjis@preludecares.com