J. Scott McElroy, Founder and Director
Scott has been working to connect churches and artists with inspired creativity since the mid-1990’s. He’s the author of the forthcoming How to CARE: Crisis,
Disaster, Trauma, and Healing Ministry with the Arts, as well as Creative Church Handbook: Releasing the Power of the Arts in Your Congregation and Finding Divine Inspiration: Working with the Holy Spirit in Your Creativity. In addition to facilitating arts initiatives through the New Renaissance, he’s an arts ministry leader and visual artist at his home church, Vineyard Christian Fellowship in Indianapolis. Scott has a MATM (Master of Arts in Theology and Ministry), Worship, Theology, and the Arts specialization from Fuller Theological Seminar. He holds a Certificate of Trauma Informed Care from Indiana University.
He lives on Broad Ripple Park in Indianapolis with his beautiful wife, Danielle and precocious dog, Madeline.
Reach Scott at: scott (at) thenewr.org
Jason Leith, Special Projects: Sacred Streets
Since 2008, Jason has focused on the intersection of art and justice by making portraits of people face-to-face on city sidewalks, through the Sacred Streets 
initiative. He lives to find and share beauty and share God’s story (Psalm 19:4). From 2012 to 2024, Jason pastored a community of hundreds of artists to grow and serve together at a renowned 20,000 member Church called Saddleback Visual Arts. The ministry is still transforming community through creativity today. He received a Master of Arts (MA) in Global Leadership with an emphasis in Art & Theology from Fuller and a Bachelors in Fine Arts from Biola University and graduating from the Torrey Honors Institute. Jason is married to Katherine and they with their daughter live in Orange County, California.
Reach Jason at: jason (at) sacredstreets.org