Leadership

Scott serves as Lead Pastor of the Northwest Vineyard. He joined the Mile High team in 2021. Before moving to Denver, Scott and Hannah, his wife, served at Vineyard Columbus for nine years. In Columbus, Scott served in various leadership roles, primarily leading a Campus congregation and working with the church planting team. Before Columbus, Scott and Hannah served in churches in Mississippi and New Jersey.

Scott has a deep heart to call people and help them to live into the abundant grace of Jesus that brings forgiveness, healing, and transformation. He has a passion for the work of the local church, to welcome people into community and send them out into their neighborhoods with stories of hope and grace. He also loves to see people to be released and activated to serve in the Kingdom.

Scott and Hannah, his wife, met in seminary and married in 2006. Hannah was born and raised in Zambia, Africa, where her parents served 18 years as missionaries and church planters. They have three kids – Ella, Dylan, and Lincoln. After Scott and Hannah graduated from seminary, Scott continued in school to pursue a Master of Theology degree at Princeton Theological Seminary and then completed a PhD in Biblical Studies focusing on the Old Testament. In a former life, Scott earned his Bachelor of Urban Planning degree at the University of Cincinnati and his dissertation focused on urban planning in ancient Israel. He loves relationships, reading, music (of all sorts), and visiting cities of all shapes and sizes. Scott is also a rather fervent Indianapolis Colts fan.

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Becca Knudsen serves as the Executive Pastor for all our Mile High Vineyard churches. Knowing every staff role, she creates timelines and plans that hold the whole structure together and she feels most at home when she cues others to play their part and shine. Becca has helped to establish structure and culture in our churches which create space for our staff to operate from a deeper place of peace and margin. Becca and Chris also planted one of our neighborhood churches, the Northwest Vineyard in 2016.

Originally from Columbus, Ohio, Becca moved to Colorado in 2005 to pursue a Master’s in Music at the University of Colorado. While finishing her Masters, she realized and embraced her desire to do ministry. Her education in classical music has equipped her to hold the tension of planning, executing, and being disciplined all while creating a beautiful work of art. This translates into ministry better than she ever could have imagined when applied to the intentionality required to lead teams and people, while also pulling out of them the beauty that God designed.

Becca and her husband Chris, whom she met in middle school, were married in 2004. They have two children, Eloise and Soren. In her free time, you might be able to convince her to belt out a little opera, catch her reading a book, lifting weights or spending time with her family and friends.

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Ben Folman serves as the Mile High Vineyard pastor of Discipleship and Administration, and has been part of the MHV staff since the fall of 2017. In his role he serves our pastors and staff through strategy development, organizational management, and helping our team be successful at what they do. Prior to this role, Ben served as lead pastor of the Westminster Vineyard and the Salida Vineyard; he got his start at the Duluth Vineyard and served as their associate pastor in the 2000s.

Having served in just about every capacity in a church over the course of two decades, Ben brings a great strength to the team, much to his delight. His inner drive for organization and excellence translates into enhancing the success and professionalism of our pastors in their roles. He also cares deeply about seeing people formed into the likeness of Jesus, and so enjoys mentoring, teaching and preaching.

Ben joined the Army Reserves after high school then attended the University of Minnesota–Duluth as an elementary education major until he sensed God’s call into ministry at age 20. He later pursued ministry training through Vineyard Leadership Institute, his local church, and as many books as he could get his hands on and has been doing pastoral ministry his entire adult life. He married his wonderful wife, Jenny, in 2002 and has three amazing children, Sophie, Caleb and Owen. Outside of ministry, you will find him running mountain trails any chance he gets and exploring the outdoors with his family.

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Lindsey Arnold is Administrative Assistant for the Mile High Vineyard. She and her husband Nick started attending MHV in 2006, and Lindsey came on staff in 2009. As an Administrative Assistant, Lindsey is a vital member of our team, helping connect people into our church community (through visitor follow-up and Sunday service follow-up) and adeptly managing much of our behind-the-scenes operations (including some financial management). She faithfully manages many of the behind-the-scenes organizational tasks that help our churches run smoothly.

Lindsey is an incredible servant on our team! She truly believes in and supports what Jesus is doing in the MHV community and feels privileged to be a part of that work in any capacity. More recently she has been leaning into intercession and prayer ministry, serving at our Northwest Vineyard church in this role.

Lindsey holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Colorado Denver. Lindsey and Nick, whom she met in college, were married in 2006 and have three children: Ellie, Ava and Eli.  She loves planning intentional get togethers with her friends and spending time in the mountains with her family.

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Hannah serves as an Executive Assistant to our Executive Pastor—and is a lifesaver on all things organization and management. She is incredible at managing projects related to all our Mile High churches, getting new hires onboarded to our team, and knowing the ins and outs of our many of the Human Resources systems related to running a church.

Hannah grew up as a PK (pastor’s kid) and MK (missionary’s kid). Her parents were missionaries in Zambia, Africa for 18 years and they have been in pastoral ministry her whole life—so she grew up around church and ministry things, but didn’t come to know Jesus until after college. Shortly after that, she felt called to ministry, so she went to seminary in 2004 and graduated with her MDiv degree in 2007. Before coming to Mile High, her and her husband (Scott) we were at Vineyard Columbus for 9 years where she served in Women’s Ministry, Kids Ministry and at our local campus church (Sawmill Campus).

Hannah and Scott met in seminary and have been married since 2006. They have 3 kids – Ella, 14 years old; Dylan, 11 years old; and Lincoln, 8 years old. When she’s not doing ministry, she loves spending time with friends and family, going to concerts, reading, interior design and trying to keep her houseplants alive.

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