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

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Pastor Ayla Litsenberger

Executive Director of Prelude Ministries

Campus Pastor - Woodbury, MN

Pastor Ayla 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. She 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.

 

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Pastor Steve Schramm

Director of Spiritual Care

Campus Pastor - Woodbury, MN

Pastor Steve 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, he also builds partnerships with senior and memory care communities to extend spiritual care to residents, families, and caregivers where it would not otherwise exist.

If you are aware of a senior care facility in need of spiritual care, please reach out to Pastor Steve to potentially establish an alliance.

 

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Pastor Vicki Richardson

Campus Pastor - Woodbury, MN

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Pastor John

Pastor John George

Campus Pastor - White Bear Lake, MN

Pastor John was born and raised in a Christian Missionary family in Kerala, India. He and his wife worked in a Christian organization in North India which trains students as Pastors and missionaries, runs schools for the underprivileged, projects for the marginalized and a Bible translation training center. Pastor John has had previous experience as an advertising professional before going into full-time ministry. He completed his M.Div. and is currently admitted into the Doctor of Ministry program at Bethel University. 

Contact Pastor John
jgeorge@preludecares.com

 

Get in Touch!

Pastor Steve Schramm
Director of Spiritual Care

(651) 788-3557 | sschramm@preludecares.com