team
Staff
Katherine Gosnell |
CityLove Director
As CityLove Director, Katherine leads the blog, social media, and local partnerships, along with producing public art. She grew up in Ohio and studied drawing and painting at Anderson University, SC. During a term in Italy she made a friend from Rhode Island who told her about Providence, Renaissance Church, and CityLove. The initiative’s fusion of creativity, community care, and the Christian faith intrigued her so much that she came to see it for herself. She has since resided in Providence to draw and get to know the city and her people.
Contact Katherine at katherine@renchurchri.org
Scott Axtmann | Founder
Scott grew up in Western Massachusetts in a small town called Wilbraham. Although having a childhood filled with innocent adventure, art, blanket forts, and giant sandboxes, his childhood creativity and innocence was lost as a teen as he threw himself into a destructive lifestyle. At 21 he experienced the transforming love of Christ and has never been the same since. He is now the founder and Senior Pastor of Renaissance Church, which began in 2003 at the Columbus Theatre, and lives in Warwick, RI with his beautiful wife and two amazing daughters. He started the CityLove initiative in 2018 out of a desire to display God’s love in creative, tangible ways to people in the city who have never experienced it.