Co-Pastor

Angela LaMoore

I began my call as Co-Pastor at Nativity in March 2025, but my family and I have been part of the Nativity community since 2022. Our family includes me, my husband Morgan, and our two children, Joshua and Benjamin. We currently live down in Savage, Minnesota, with our two cats, Buffy and Willow.

A little more about me: I was raised in the ELCA, growing up in Burnsville, Minnesota, but God’s call to the ordained ministry took some time. My original plan had been to study biology and eventually enter into the realm of cancer research. I received my BS in biology from MIT in 2008 and later enrolled in a PhD program at the University of Washington, Seattle.

I was a few years into my program when God began to reveal a different plan. I left UW with my MS in biology and enrolled in seminary in Seattle, not yet knowing exactly where God was leading. The short answer was that God was leading me home, in more ways than one. In 2013, I moved home to Burnsville to help care for my aging grandfather. In 2014, I transferred to Luther Seminary in St. Paul. That same year, I also met the wonderfully nerdy electrical engineer I would marry two years later.

During my time at Luther Seminary, God (slowly and with infinite wisdom) unveiled the path before me, which eventually led to my seeking an ordained pastoral call in the ELCA. I graduated from Luther in December 2017 and was ordained the following summer. My first call was to South Santiago Lutheran in Clear Lake, Minnesota. After leading the church through a decent amount of transition and the COVID-19 pandemic, I went on leave from call at the beginning of 2021, in order to focus on my family and act as a stay-at-home mom. In the spring and summer of 2022, I took a break from my break and served as term pastor at Trinity Lutheran in Princeton, Minnesota, before Benjamin was born that fall.

My family and I began attending Nativity in the fall of 2022. As regular members, all four of us grew to love this community and felt God’s presence strongly among the people here. There is a welcoming inclusivity and an openness to exploration among those at Nativity that I deeply appreciate, both personally and theologically. I was delighted to accept the call to be Nativity’s Co-Pastor in March of 2025. As we seek to love God and love neighbor together as disciples of Christ, I am excited to see where the Holy Spirit leads us!

PHONE: 612-781-2766, ext. 1013
angela@nativitychurch.org