Scott's heart desire is to see people come to know and delight in God through Jesus Christ. He gets excited when people fall in love with Jesus and freely share him with others. Scott is a passionate teacher and evangelist. His teaching is Biblical and theologically precise, blending humor with hard-hitting truth.
Over the Wall (OTW) was launched in September 2003. 'The life of the Vine goes over the wall.' Scott believes that no obstacle should hold back God's Kingdom life from extending into the hard to reach places. God desires a flexible, adventurous, faith-filled, tenacious people--people who will move with 'the Vine' right over any wall.
Scott founded OTW with three emphases:
1). International Leadership Development--providing theological training for international, indigenous leaders in poor and developing nations.
2). Urban Impact--providing spiritual resources to the inner city of Washington, D.C.
3). Evangelistic Training--strengthening the evangelistic ministries of local churches and college-age ministry groups.
Scott's 2008 international schedule will take him back to Togo and Benin West Africa; to the Anderson Theological College in Aizuto, Nagaland, India; to Tanzania and Uganda; to Czech Republic, Poland, and the United Kingdom, and back to Hanamakonda, Andhra Pradesh, India.
In most of these places, Scott and other team members will be training established and developing pastors.
Scott serves on the board of The Ministry of Jesus--an American mission agency overseeing works in Northern Togo and Benin, West Africa. He has ministered in West Africa for 13 years as well as Siberia, England, Wales, India, and throughout the US. Most of Scott's international work involves theological and leadership training.
Scott is a graduate of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (M. Div 1984) with post-graduate studies at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA, and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, IL. He has 25 years of pastoral ministry experience in local church settings--Minnesota, Boston, Wisconsin, and the Washington, D.C. area.
Scott's personal accountability is with Pastor Dan Wolfe and the elders of Oakbrook Church, Reston, VA.
Scott was born in Minneapolis, MN in 1957. He has been married to his wife Rebecca for 27 years, and they have three adult children.