We spent the first 15 years of our married lives in Northeastern Oklahoma in-and-around Tulsa, as public school teachers, with our son, John, joining our family in 2009. I taught middle/high school English, while Shannon earned her master’s degree in Reading and helped elementary students who were struggling in that area to read well. After all, the best reason to learn to read well is so the Bible can have a great impact. That’s our heart, now and forever: that our Savior would use us to spread His Word wherever we go and that it would be glorified, just as Paul described to the Thessalonian Christians (2 Thessalonians 3:1).

In 2012, our friend and former Tulsa pastor, Dr. John Barnett, asked me to come serve as his Executive Pastor at in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and we said YES! Those were wonderfully sweet and challenging years during which those saints became our family and forever friends! In 2017, Dr. Barnett launched into overseas missions, training pastors and missionaries all over the world through his ministry at Discover The Book (DiscoverTheBook.org), and the Lord began stirring in us something we didn’t recognize at the time. With the help and guidance of dear friends in Kalamazoo, we were introduced to Village Missions.

Our time with Village Missions, from our very first contact on March 4, 2019, has been like driving a highway with beautiful scenery and all green lights—constant affirmations from the Lord every step of the way. We serve as a missionary family, based in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, serving the beautiful church family that gathers at Amy Chapel. We continue to serve Him here thankfully and by grace alone, exceedingly, watching Him do His work, abundantly above all that we could ever ask or think, according to His power that works in, around, and through us—to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever (Ephesians 3:20-21).

The Scott Family, as a part of the Amy Chapel family, is here to help and bless you and yours. Please do reach out with any questions, requests, or concerns, as the Lord leads you, by calling or texting me directly at 712-304-2036 or emailing me at TeachingSomethingGood@gmail.com.