ReNew Community
Staff & Leaders

  • Emily Paulson

    Emily Paulson
    Director of Worship and Ministry Operations

    Emily oversees the worship team and is also responsible for integrating people into and within PODS (or small groups), as well as ministry operations. Emily enjoys spending her time with her dogs and sharing life with her friends and family. She is so happy to be a part of ReNew Community and the impact it is having in people lives.

  • Kristen Petty

    Kristen Petty
    Finance Manager

    Kristen handles all things finance for ReNew. She and her husband, Aaron, live in Ankeny and have two kids. Kristen enjoys spending time with her family and the dogs, preferably out in nature. She also enjoys reading, crocheting, and hanging out with youth group kids. ReNew Community has been pivotal in her and her husband’s faith journeys and she is excited to be a part of the amazing work being done through ReNew.

  • Aaron Vis

    Aaron Vis
    Lead Pastor

    ReNew Community is under the leadership and direction of pastor Aaron Vis. Aaron and his family (wife Renee, children Samuel, Caleb, Micah) are Iowa natives who moved back to Iowa after a season of pastoring a church in Michigan.