Rev. Jenny Saperstein grew up in the PC(USA) and has served the church as a deacon and as a ruling elder. She is a graduate of Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Jenny grew up “in the west,” notably, Washington state, California, and Colorado. However, she has ancestral and family roots in Michigan. Jenny is anishinaabe, waganakising odawa — a member of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians in northern Michigan. After seminary in Texas, Jenny and her husband Patrick moved to Michigan where she found her first pastoral call here at Northside. Jenny and Patrick have a full household: their two children, three dogs, and Jenny’s mother. In her limited free time you can usually find Jenny working in her garden.
When asked what she believes, she says, “I believe God is good, gracious, and loving, and humankind is made in that image. We are called to love God and to love one another because we have been created to celebrate diversity and live in community, as modeled in the mystery of the triune God.”
We welcomed Jenny to Northside in April 2020.
