Joy McDonald Coltvet

The Rev. Joy McDonald Coltvet has served as pastor of faith formation at Incarnation Lutheran Church in Shoreview, Minnesota, since December 2024. She was ordained in 2001 and has served in several congregations, a campus ministry and a seminary of the ELCA. She served for 10 years at Christ on Capitol Hill (St. Paul, Minnesota) where she delighted in serving in this diverse community where worshipers encounter Christ, the tree of life. She is a graduate of Luther College (BA), the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (M.Div.), and the Catholic Theological Union (D.Min.). When she’s not at church, she enjoys conversation with her children who are in college, high school and elementary school, sharing time with her life partner Ben, or enjoying music and the arts.