Meet Our Staff

I grew up in Spokane Washington where I went to Whitworth University and studied religion. After graduation I moved to San Ramon CA to serve as Director of Youth Ministries. It was during my time there, working with students and their families, that I started to sense a call to ordained ministry. I returned to…

It was a rainbow, Hannah Peters says, that led her to Trinity. “I didn’t think I wanted to come to another Presbyterian church,” says Hannah, who had spent seven years working with children at Webster Groves Presbyterian Church.  “I was looking for a change. But then my husband was searching online and the first thing we saw was…

Just three months after completing his master’s program in music at England’s Durham University and returning home to the St. Louis area, Christian Hendricks received an invitation that would change the course of his life. Shortly before Christmas 2018, Hendricks, a native of St. Jacob, Ill., was asked to play the piano at a December…

It’s probably not surprising that Katie Gibbons’ favorite book is “The Martian,” the story of an astronaut whose appetite for adventure takes him to another world. An avid reader, Katie has embarked on her own adventure in recent weeks, albeit a more earthbound one, as Trinity’s communications coordinator. She arrives here after 16 years at…

Six months after his official “retirement” from Trinity, Birty R. Hodgson says he is thrilled to be back – even if it is as a part-timer. Not long after the church he calls “my second home” feted him with a farewell reception last spring, Hodgson said he received a phone call from then-pastor Johanna Wagner….