About Kristen

Kristen, an ordained elder with the Free Methodist Church, is the Pastor of West Morris Free Methodist Church in Indianapolis, Indiana. She chairs the Free Methodist African Immigrant Ministries (AIM), and teaches at several colleges and universities. She has been blessed by opportunities to travel and teach in Bangladesh and India, and often finds herself “homesick” for those beautiful places. Kristen completed her doctorate on the NT Context with Dr. Scot McKnight at Northern Seminary. Her doctoral project explored how the Old Testament should be used in the Church today. Kristen loves to travel, read, write, speak, explore thrift stores and experiment with new recipes alongside John, her husband of 26+ years, and her children, ages 15-27.