DAVID MCBURNEY - SENIOR PASTOR
Pastor David, a Bloomington-Normal (BLO-NO) native, graduated from both Normal Community High School (1985) and Illinois State University (B.S. in Journalism 1989 and M.S. in Speech Communication in 1991). After teaching communication courses at both Heartland Community College (1992-1993) and ISU (1994-2004), he and his family moved to St. Louis where David began his studies at Concordia Seminary to become a pastor.
After being ordained in 2008, David served at Abiding Savior Lutheran Church in South St. Louis County as both associate pastor (2008) and senior pastor (2009-2020). In 2020, he returned to BLO-NO to focus on two ministry passions: outreach and young adults. In July 2023 he began serving as Trinity’s interim senior pastor.
As a pastor, David attempts to preach God’s Word faithfully and passionately, to create tangible opportunities to share the love of Jesus with our community, to foster mentoring opportunities, and to strengthen current and create new ministry partnerships.
David and his wife Jennifer, who married in 1993, are blessed with two sons: Keenan, a Structural Engineer in Kansas City, and Lyle, who is studying for his Master’s degree in Counseling.
Chuck Bahn
Assistant Pastor ofChristian Growth, Assimilation, and Fellowship
Pastor Bahn enjoys visiting with Trinity members just to get to know them better or when they face illnesses or difficult times. He also enjoys teaching Bible study classes and new member classes. Pastor Bahn and his wife Kathy have been married 32 years. Kathy teaches fifth grade at Trinity School. They have three grown children who live in three different states (even though they really do love their parents). Pastor Bahn and Kathy also have one grandson.
Pastor Bahn enjoys reading, food, and taking driving vacations to PA and CA with stops along the way.
Mr. Shawn Hoffmann
School Principal
Shawn Hoffmann is a 1995 graduate of Concordia University, River Forest, where he earned a BA in Elementary Education. He earned a MA in administration from Illinois State University. He has served as principal of Trinity Lutheran School since 2004. Previous to being principal, he taught 5th-8th grade science.
Shawn is blessed with a wonderful wife and four fantastic sons. Trinity Lutheran is Shawn's first Call out school and he is so very thankful for the opportunity to serve here among some of the greatest parents, faculty, and staff he has ever met.
Shawn has a relational heart and loves to grow community with God's people. He also has a passion for helping others develop their God-given gifts, encouraging others in their faith walk, and a deep heart's desire to see each new generation of faithful students be stronger than the last.
To God be the Glory!
Mary Bloebaum
Director of Family Life Ministry
Mary has an enormous passion for Family Life Ministry as she works with marriages, parents, and families all through the lifespan, to equip the home to pass on faith while living and serving Jesus everyday!
Mary is blessed to be married to her best friend and life partner, Brett Bloebaum. They get to team up daily to parent their two sweet girls Nora and Jane. Some favorite family times often happen snuggled up on the couch cheering on the Packers or Colts, around the table in serious board game competitions, or in the van singing crazy for the Lord!
When Mary is not doing all of the above she enjoys being a memory maker, picture taker, journal-er, and scrapbooker! She loves family vacations, walking, biking, and connecting with others over a good gas station cappuccino!
Christy Malinowski
Director of Youth Ministry
Christy has a real heart for youth and enjoys helping them use their God given gifts and talents in service to Him. She serves the JR and SR High Youth at Trinity, along with their families. Why youth ministry? Christy has a passion for seeing youth live out their faith in everyday life. One of the gifts God has given Christy is serving and she loves to go on mission trips with teens and adults.
Christy is married to her handsome husband, Jeff, and together they have three wonderful children; Kristin, Chad and Claire and four grandchildren.
Christy enjoys being silly with youth, reading, scrapbooking and watching her daughter, Claire, compete at swim meets. As a family, they enjoy watching Marvel movies, traveling, and playing with Harley Grace, who is their fur baby.
Amy Cottone
Children’s ministry Assistant
Amy has a grand love for kids - of all ages. As Children's Ministry Assistant, she partners with Family Life Ministry and Youth Ministry to provide in-person (when capable) and online opportunities for kiddos and parents to grow in their closeness to Jesus Christ and encourage sharing their faith in Jesus Christ in the home as the norm, as well as others in their circle of influence.
Amy is part of a six-generation family with life-long membership in the Trinity family. She has been married to her husband Tony for 44 years. They have three wonderful kids, Nick (wife Aubree), Andria and Tommy (wife Amber) along with five out-of-this world grandkids Kylie, Jocelyn, Chenzo, Gianna and Rocco. She retired from full-time work in 2019, then God put the Children's Ministry opportunity in her path.
In her "free time", Amy spends time hanging out with her grandkids, enjoying couch time with fur-babies, Stella and Brady, heading to the beaches of 30A in Florida's panhandle when Tony says "let's go", watching anything British streaming online and she's a huge Beatles fan!
Favorite Bible passage: Philippians 4: 8-9
Angela WIRSING
DIRECTOR OF WORSHIP ARTS
Angela is passionate about faith, music, and children - seeking to help God's children of all ages connect to, grow in and share their faith through creative and skillful participation in the arts. She does this through her direction of Trinity's arts opportunities and by designing worship opportunities which tell the true story of God’s redemptive work.
Angela lives in Bloomington with her husband (and favorite dance partner) Thomas, and children Nathan and Elizabeth. She is a born and raised Southern girl and the family enjoys taking road trips down south whenever they can. They love family movie nights, MarioKart tournaments, and family devotions.
In her spare time, Angela enjoys teaching with MusicConnections Foundation, and directing with local theater organizations. She not only loves directing, but performing as well and can sometimes be seen singing and dancing on stage in the Holiday Spectacular. One of her favorite places to be, though, is wrapped up in a blanket (no matter what season it is!) with a good book or a cross stitch pattern and a hot cup of coffee.
Scott Hoeft
Director of Finance
Scott's greatest desire for Trinity Lutheran is to make sure everyone has what they need to serve the community. From managing finances to building and grounds upkeep, Scott knows these are resources for sharing the love of Christ and makes sure they are ready for God's purposes.
Scott is married to his lovely wife, Shawn, and they have four wonderful children, Zac, Rachel, Jacob, and Abigail.
In his free time, Scott loves nothing more than to run the farm and support the broader farming community.
Tricia Walker
Administrative Assistant
Tricia has a heart for sharing the love of Christ through her daily interactions in the church office. She has a passion for keeping things organized and running smoothly, all with a smile on her face! While maintaining the membership database, facility calendar, and pastors' schedules are just a few of her daily tasks, the "other duties as assigned" are the ones she enjoys the most! With the help of faithful office volunteers, rest assured, when you call or stop in the church office you are in good hands!
Tricia and her husband, Geoff, have three beautiful, funny, and active children. Favorite family activities include spending time watching whichever sporting event the boys are in at the time and competitive game nights at home! Tricia is an alum of Trinity Lutheran School and is so excited that her children get to start their education there as well. When she has a few minutes to herself, Tricia likes to wind down by watching reruns of Friends, scrapbooking, or baking yummy treats!
For the Lord is good; His steadfast love endures forever, and His faithfulness to all generations. Psalm 100:5
SHANN ANDERSON ELBLE
COMMUNICATIONS
Shann’s passion and expertise for marketing and communications brought her to this role at Trinity just prior to the pandemic, when communications became so vital. Shann’s responsibilities include managing Trinity’s social media and website, weekly and monthly newsletters - both electronic and paper, maintaining our YouTube channel and preparing live streams, assisting our various ministries with special marketing projects, and creating in-house publications such as devotionals, booklets, and worship folders.
Working with the pastors to create meaningful and relevant graphics for bulletins and video screens are Shann’s favorite part of the job. Shann would like to thank our wonderful volunteers, who keep us smiling, and help us proof, print and get the word out every week.
Shann is married to Joe (whom she met as a counselor at Camp CILCA). They have two children and four grandchildren.