Pastor Kristen Hanson has been serving as a bi-vocational local pastor since 2016 and is currently appointed as Senior Pastor with Geneva UMC in southern Shelby County. She works full-time in insurance and has a bachelor’s degree in Risk Management & Insurance from Ball State University.
Kristen has been encouraged by the bridge-building Metro Ministries creates across Central Indiana in connecting ministries to resources and resources to ministries. She loves hearing the impact stories of how ministries are making visible differences in their local communities with the support of volunteers and organizations like Metro Ministries.
She continually supports and encourages fellow board members, as well as the pastors and laity throughout the Central District as they continue to develop and grow creative outreach ministries to meet the needs in our local communities.