The Rev. Canon Natalie Hall

Canon Natalie has a gift and passion for evangelism, building faith into the common structures of daily life and communicating the good news of God’s promises in contexts outside the liturgical assembly or parish hall. Hall seeks to equip communities for cross+generational faith practices in church, at home, and beyond, welcoming both those familiar and unfamiliar with church into a unifying vision of faith practices, commitment, and empowering diverse gifts to strengthen the community of faith.

The Reverend Natalie Hall was ordained Pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) in September 2009 after earning dual Masters in Systematic Theology and Divinity from Luther Seminary (St. Paul, MN). She served as a vicar at Christ Lutheran Church (Valparaiso, IN) and has since served two congregations in the Southwestern Pennsylvania Synod of the ELCA.

Hall serves as Canon for Evangelism and Faith Formation, and her commitment to ecumenical witness runs deep. Baptized as an infant in the Lutheran tradition, her formative childhood years were spent just outside of Frankfurt, Germany where she was introduced to the 1979 Book of Common Prayer when she and her family joined a parish under the jurisdiction of the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe (TEC). She was warmly welcomed, invited to serve in church leadership for the first time, catechized, and received her first Eucharist.

Natalie’s commitment to Episcopal-Lutheran dialogue goes the extra mile, having promised a lifetime of mutual reformation with her husband, Daniel a bi-vocational priest of the Diocese and practicing general surgeon. They have three daughters, Grace, Maryam, and Evangeline.