Living in a house and family eerily like the one she grew up in, Collette is a mom, stepmom, pastor, writer, and social justice worker. She married Marrett in 2014, a wildlife research scientist who was in the process of becoming an ELCA like her, when he died in June of 2019.

Collette continues to maintain two split custody arrangements, doing her best to mother two teenaged daughters, two ten year old boys, and the three year old who came along after this bunch got blended.

Collette is the associate pastor at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Mankato, MN, and the Co-Executive Director of Connections Ministry, a collaboration of local churches serving those experiencing homelessness.