Ep 21 - What's your Problem - Scott Anderson (The end of Season 1)

Jason welcomes speaker and ministry leader Scott Anderson to the 3 Doves Podcast. Scott shares that he was born in 1970 in San Diego, was born with cerebral palsy after being revived at birth, and learned to adapt through confidence and faith, inviting Jesus into his life in fourth grade through Awana. He describes driving for Uber for eight years with over 40,000 rides, raising four children through fostering and adoption, and learning to overcome through gratitude, mission trips, and focusing on loving God and others. Scott also discusses walking through a recent divorce by building a God-centered support team and trusting God’s control. He now serves with For Kids, a Christian foster licensing agency in Southwest Florida, encouraging more foster families to meet local needs.  

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Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:00

Welcome everybody to the Three Dose Podcast. I'm your host, Jason Polowski. And today, Scott Anderson shares how being born with cerebral palsy, raising children through foster care and adoption, and walking through some of life's toughest challenges taught him that obstacles don't have to define your future. I'm sitting here with Scott Anderson. Scott, welcome to the Three Doves Podcast.

SPEAKER_00 0:33

Thank you. It's so great to be here. It's so great to be across the table from you.

SPEAKER_02 0:38

I feel the same way, brother. I do. We have a little bit of a history together. Um, I remember uh sitting at Liberty University, and you came up on stage and you actually spoke to the whole crowd.

SPEAKER_00 0:52

You're making me feel old because that was a long time ago. But but yeah, so I will bless that I've been around the world speaking to the crowds of two, to crowds of 10,000.

SPEAKER_02 1:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:09

And everything in between.

SPEAKER_02 1:11

Yeah. We're gonna start off our podcast the way we always do. Scott, where were you born? Where were you brought up at?

SPEAKER_00 1:18

Okay. First of all, thank you for asking me to do an audio podcast because I have a face for audio, not video, okay? But my voice for audio, probably even worse than my face for video, but people go on from there. That's great. No worries, no worries at all, Scott. Yeah, yeah. So so I was I was born in 1970 in San Diego, California. And um, so that was I started. And I'm a native Californian. I was born and raised there until I was about 20. Then I moved to a different college in Missouri. So I spent most of my young life in California. I love California. Yeah. But not everything about California. But we won't go there because this is not a political podcast. But yeah, I love San Diego.

SPEAKER_02 2:27

Yeah, we had a chance, uh, my daughter and I, to go out to San Francisco. Um, I had some business out there, so I grabbed her. We went and took a flight, and we were out there for almost a week and stood uh stayed with a friend of mine, Tom Finelli, and uh we had such a great time in California. Um it's a beautiful, beautiful area.

SPEAKER_00 2:46

Now, now you're talking about San Francisco.

SPEAKER_02 2:51

I'm talking about San Francisco.

SPEAKER_00 2:52

No cow. I live in SoCow. Okay. It's a totally different. Um if you lived in SoCal, you don't like no cow people. Really? Yeah. It's that it's really that way. It'd be like if you're from the East Coast, uh-huh. Boston versus New York.

SPEAKER_02 3:14

Okay. That makes sense, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:16

They don't like each other, right? And so, yeah, no cow don't like so cow people, and vice versa.

SPEAKER_02 3:22

Well, listen, I was just a visitor. Okay. We just came in to check it out. Okay. We went across the bridge, we had a good time, and uh, you know, the Lord really uh showed us uh a side of California that, you know, others maybe we didn't get a chance to see. But Scott, tell me about growing up in California. You obviously I know, um, and folks listening uh that can't see, you were born with cerebral palsy.

SPEAKER_00 3:46

Right. Tell us a little bit about okay. So if you don't know, it's not a disease that you can't catch it or anything, it's a disability. So what happened? I was born dead. Wow. So so and it took about five minutes to revive me. And during the five minutes, much of my physical brain cells were were killed off. And you cannot grow brain cells back. So that that's the foundation of my disability is, you know, I was born this way, I don't get better, I don't get worse, it's just how I am. So now you learn to adapt and learn to grow and and learn to um um advance, but as far as motor skills, you know, they are what they are.

SPEAKER_02 4:52

Well, you drive a car now, obviously.

SPEAKER_00 4:55

Which is kind of scary, right? I mean why that's yeah. Well, uh okay, so so wait, before you say that, I gotta tell you guys something.

SPEAKER_02 5:06

Scott has one of the most amazing sense of humors, uh, and just hanging out with him. He he loves a good laugh. And so, Scott, tell us about, just get to it, tell us about that little driving.

SPEAKER_00 5:18

So driving, right? So just to give you some a picture of it. When I think I moved away to go do a different college, then I moved from Missouri, I lived in Boston for a while, I lived in Miami for a while. And so I moved back 20 years later to San Diego, and I lived in San Diego for 12 years until I moved here four years ago. And and living in San Diego isn't the cheapest place, and I mean I'm ministry, so I did church work, and you don't make a lot of money, you don't make California money doing in church work. So I have to supplement my income. Support is the supplement, I was an Uber driver. You're an Uber driver? I was an Uber driver. I was an Uber driver for eight years. Wow. And I had I had over 40,000 rides in my car in the eight years. That's a lot of butts in the seat. You know what I mean? So, you know, having a disability. Yeah. Can you imagine me driving up, rolling down my window, and saying, hey, I'm an overdriver jumping my car. I mean, that that freaked the people out, right?

unknown 6:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:56

Kind of scary, right? But you know what? I only got I only got reported for drunk driving four times. World? Wait, what? Four times it got reported for what again? Drunk driving.

SPEAKER_02 7:13

Drunk driving.

SPEAKER_00 7:14

They did not get in my car, but they thought I was drunk when I broke. When they heard me talk, they thought I was drunk.

SPEAKER_01 7:23

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 7:24

And what's amazing, the only people that thought I was drunk was other drunk people. The only drunk people thought I was drunk. It's amazing how that works. But yeah, but the Lord blessed, you know. I I I qu I'm quite retired with a five-star rating. So, you know, and I I I drove two cars into the grand, but it allowed me to raise a family to buy a house in California with that supplement. So you know, so it's amazing how when society says, Scott, you can't do this, you can't do that, you can't do this, where God says, well, trust in me and I will make a way, right? So you know, uh, and so um, I mean, growing up, Scott, can you ever have a family? I mean, can you ever raise kids? It's difficult for you to cook and to move around and you know, but you know what, with God's grace, I'm a father of four, and um um I drive, I I I own a house, I I own dog and cat, you know, I I I I live in the American trin.

SPEAKER_02 9:02

Amen, man.

SPEAKER_00 9:03

That's a good with God in power.

SPEAKER_02 9:06

Yeah. When you um when you going in this back to your childhood again, growing up with cerebral palsy, how was it as a child growing up in that era? You know, you grew up in the I I don't want to date you because I know you're in your 70s, right? 1970s is when you were born, I should say.

SPEAKER_00 9:24

I was in my um in my 50s. I guess a Jason can't do math, you know. So if I You know if I was born in 70, that means I'm I'm 55 now. Yeah, back then it was a little different. It was, you know, now I'm more sensitive and everything, right? But but I think my parents instilled in me, Scott is going to be hard. Yeah. It's going to be difficult, but you can do it. But you can't you can't sit around and whine about it. You need to overcome it. Yeah. Back in the early 70s in San Diego, they tend to um put all the disabled students in one school.

SPEAKER_02 10:22

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 10:23

Then they divide them up by their academic ability. But but when I was in the third grade, they started mainstreaming all the all the students that could uh um keep up academically into a into a um neighborhood school. So so that was the first try-on test when they put a disabled student into a school where there may not be any disabled students in a wheelchair. And of course, because kids are mean, kids are tease, kids are wondering, you know, there was the the teasing and the mocking by some, but some accept me, but it's like now, right? Yeah you know, yeah. You're not gonna, not everybody's your friends, right? That's a good point. Well, I don't I know lots of people that are not your friends. No, no, so so so yeah, so so that was the first in the third grade started realizing, hey, if I curl up and cry in the corner, nobody's gonna help me. But if I get out there with confidence, and and in the fourth grade, I invited Jesus into my life. Wow. And starting that understanding that God did not make junk, and God created me just the way he wanted me to be. And so so with that with that attitude starting to take place and the building. No, it took a while to get there, but yeah, it's uh Wow.

SPEAKER_02 12:18

God was working on your identity through all this stuff as well. He was working on helping you see who you really are worth.

SPEAKER_00 12:26

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 12:26

That's amazing. That's amazing. Tell me about that uh experience of of coming to Jesus. Were you at church? Were you at home?

SPEAKER_00 12:33

I was at Amanus, and if your listeners don't know Amanus, it's kind of like a Christian scouting program.

SPEAKER_02 12:43

Okay, yeah, like a Boy Scout, Girl Scout program.

SPEAKER_00 12:46

Um I'm yeah, I it was co-you go to each on Wednesday night, they have programs and they have games, but you work for a book. And through that book you learn Bible verses and you learn the Bible, you learn stories. And so one night, you know, the Oman ed leader asked me, hey, do you know Jesus? I said, Yeah, yeah, I it's my job to set up the nativity scene every year at my house during Christmas. He said, Yeah, but have you asked Jesus into your heart before? I said, no. He said, But just like to have Jesus in your heart and to be your savior. I said, that's unpretty cool. Let's do it. So it's very simple. Yeah. Salvation is very simple.

SPEAKER_02 13:50

It is simple. People make it very complex though. You notice that there's always some works involved in it or something, you know, this religious culture we live in.

SPEAKER_00 13:59

A total understanding of the Bible. Okay. And you don't have to understand God or have a theological degree. All you have to do is realize that you are not perfect. And because you're not perfect, the Bible says if you believe in that spiritual journey, the Bible says, because you're not perfect, that there's a punishment, and that punishment is hell. But Jesus, God sent Jesus into this world to live for you, to die for you, and to be rose again for you, and to take your sins. And he left them in the grave. And if we trust trust in that fact, if we believe Jesus did all of that for us, we are considered saved or a Christian.

SPEAKER_01 15:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:05

And no matter what happens on earth, I know I'm going to heaven because I trust him as my Savior.

SPEAKER_02 15:13

It's so amazing to see the Holy Spirit working through you in this conversation right now. Um it really touches me because I remember when you spoke at Liberty, um, you got up and you got to the mic and you said something that just impacted me. And I told you this before. You said, Hi, my name is Scott. I have cerebral palsy. What's your problem? And when you said that from the microphone, that resonated so hard with me that I wasn't living as an overcomer at that point in my life. And when you said that, that brought about change to a lot of us young men who are listening to you. And you weren't too far off in our our age group. You know, you're only a few years older than I am. That's why I was teasing you earlier. But, you know, that is incredible. Tell me about some of the things that the Lord has taught you in overcoming. Take your time.

SPEAKER_00 16:16

When I look at the world, there's a lot of crud out there. I can sit back and and do what the kids call tomb scroll, right?

SPEAKER_01 16:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:35

My daughter, my 17-year-old daughter, tomb scrolls all the time. Like get off of Instagram, okay? You do she comes out, you know, and with some scary stuff, is like, hold on. God has everything in control. Not because of sin, but because of human nature, there's gonna be bad stuff in the world.

SPEAKER_01 17:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:14

And I think one thing that really taught me to overcome Believe now is going on mission trips or or going overseas. Before I had kids, I went overseas every year for a month. And so I remember going to Cambodia one year and and going to a Vietnam Vietnamese school in the jungles of Cambodia to speak.

SPEAKER_01 17:48

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 17:49

Now you don't know the political nature of the Cambodians hate the Vietnamese because of what the Vietnamese did to Cambodia and others, it's all, you know, muddy in there. So they treat Vietnamese bad in Cambodia now, but they have separate schools.

SPEAKER_01 18:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:16

So I'm out there in a one-room school, Clywood school, talking to the crowded room of little children. Wow. But but seeing all these little um faces and knowing that probably none of them will have the life I will have. Wow. Because all the girls will be sex trafficked. Because if you know Asia, you know America is bad, but anyway, this isn't a sex trafficking podcast, but but it happens, it's happening, and it needs to be and look in those eyes and say, God, thank you so much for what I have.

SPEAKER_01 19:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:19

I mean I have everything, but thank you for what I do have. And that taught me so much about myself and God and and what God has done for me.

SPEAKER_02 19:36

So you're saying because of a heart of gratitude, it helped you overcome even more obstacles.

SPEAKER_00 19:43

Yes, because it's all in the attitude and how you do that because uh like I said, uh with my disability, I can't get any bathroom. You know, so the overcoming is a is a mental shift. Has nothing to do with a physical ability, has nothing to do with with how much money I have, because I don't have much I I work for a nonprofit. But um um yeah, it's all uh all in the attitude, in the mind shift, you know, say thank you for what I do have. And if I have it, great, if I don't, that's great. But thank you, God, for giving me life, and you know, I can always find somebody better than me. I can always find somebody worse than me. But but yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:52

So and uh so you're talking to the folks out there listening. The best way to overcome one, have a relationship with Jesus.

SPEAKER_00 21:01

And that number one.

SPEAKER_02 21:02

That's number one. Number two, I heard you say, hit the missions field. Get out there and see. See so you can see that you're what you're doing.

SPEAKER_00 21:11

Yeah, don't don't be self-in-indulging, self-reflecting. Open your eyes around the world and see the hurt. Yeah, and probably the best way to do that is to help others. Because when you're helping others, God is doing a work in you.

SPEAKER_02 21:36

That's true. That's so good, Scott.

SPEAKER_00 21:39

Because what did Jesus say? Love God, love others. If you want to know how to walk with God, if you want to know the essence of everything in the Bible, love God, love others. Now what it comes in down. When you're loving God, you're focusing on Him. When you're loving others, you're not focusing on yourself. You're focusing on others. And when you focus on others, your problems get less. That doesn't, I'm not, I'm not minimalizing the hurt and the pain and the fears that you go through. Because we all go through this. I go through this. I've been through great trials of this year. But if I put others first.

SPEAKER_02 22:42

Yeah, if you put others first.

SPEAKER_00 22:44

Yeah. Let me be open. During the past year, you know, I I went through a divorce. Here we are with four kids. I went through a divorce. And not getting into that because, you know, the divorce is very complicated and stuff. And, you know, there was no moral failures or or anything like that. So, or abuse or anything like that. Sure. There's other issues involved. When I went through that, what did I need to do to get through it? Number one, I focus on my relationship with Jesus. Because no matter how close you are to Jesus right now, you can always get closer. Draw near to me and I will draw near to you, Jesus said.

SPEAKER_02 23:50

That's one of my favorite verses.

SPEAKER_00 23:52

So I try to draw close. Number two, I focus on my children. And not my children's fault or anything like that, you know? And so I focus on them. And I focus on my job. Because I do a job where Satan hates.

SPEAKER_01 24:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:19

And Satan will try anything to destroy us. If he can't destroy us in society, in our workplace, he's going to try to destroy our home. And so I focus on my job, focus on others, and my job is others driven. And that's how as God has worked walked me through this pain. And divorce is very painful.

SPEAKER_01 24:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:54

And so that's how God has walked me through this by focusing on him and focusing on others.

SPEAKER_02 25:03

We have listeners who have gone through divorce. Yeah. You know, we have listeners possibly maybe going into the realm of considering divorce.

SPEAKER_00 25:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:12

Since it's so fresh and I know it's very painful, what type of advice from where you're at would you give to these folks who might be in that place?

SPEAKER_00 25:23

If you're thinking about divorce, that may say that from the onset, the Bible is very clear that God hates divorce. But it's fantastic to prove that if if a couple can get through it, it may take two, three years. But if they work through it, work through the hard times, you're a better couple beyond that. You can't control the other person.

SPEAKER_02 25:53

No.

SPEAKER_00 25:54

So I get that. And you can't force the other person. So what happens is the other person.

unknown 26:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:03

You know, I counseling, not supervising. I put a group. Here's what you need to do first. And like I said, the other seems focused on God, focus on others. But here is what it is. I I built a team around me. Not a team Scott. I wish it could be a Team Scott. But I built a team of five people around me that had God first. Okay, what do I need to do? I had one, two guys on the team that had been married up for 35 years. So they seemed the good, the bad in their own marriage and tried to dump me through that. I had a pastor on my team that um he was married up for 27 years and five kids. And he got divorced. Wow. And being in ministry, there's a different nuance when you become a divorce. So I had him on my team. I had another woman, not that I confided with her, but but she was my supervisor at my job. And she she went through a divorce at my job. But she was known to to not muddy the waters to tell it like it is.

SPEAKER_02 27:49

She was a straight shooter.

SPEAKER_00 27:51

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 27:51

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 27:52

And so I had these teams. So I tell you, if you're going through a divorce, you need a team to help you through it.

SPEAKER_02 28:01

Yeah. Like at the night. You need people around you that speak truth, is what you're saying. They're not Team Scott, but they're speaking truth. They're team God. They're team God. And they're speaking truth around your situation and pointing out things or calling you out on things or keeping you from that place of despair and just pull pushing you back into Jesus.

SPEAKER_00 28:22

Yes. And and when you go through stuff like that, you want to lash out. Yeah. You know. And you can tell I have a big mouth. And my mouth can get me into trouble, right? So I pass on different things through my team. Hey, what should I do in this? What should I say? Should I respond to this or should I let it go? And the Lord that taught me to let go a lot of stuff. Think about it this way. If it won't matter in ten years, don't respond.

SPEAKER_02 29:07

Wow. If it won't matter in ten years, don't respond.

SPEAKER_00 29:14

You're gonna be in ministry going to Bible college and being in ministry for over thirty years. I've spoken in hundreds of churches to tens of thousands of people. You think that that God can't teach you more? He can't. Because I have learned a lot more this past year than I have the past 30 years in ministry.

SPEAKER_02 29:48

And so in this past year, what is the one thing right now that's fresh that you say God has showed or teaching me this through this?

SPEAKER_00 29:58

God uh got me he's in control. I'm a typical man. I'm I'm in control, right? I'm on I'm on the how things will work out. Um put it this way, I'm not a very good investor. I'm a good saver, but I'm scared to play the stock market.

SPEAKER_01 30:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:24

Because I can't control the stock market. But I can't control my savings account, which makes only 0.1% a month, 0.01, or oh 1%. I can control that. Yeah, but I can't control the stock market because um um, and that's how I am.

SPEAKER_01 30:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:49

So so they put it this way. Now I have put more money in the stock market and trust God to do more with my life than just sit there and put it in savings.

SPEAKER_02 31:08

Wow. Wow. That's a big dynamic shift for you in your life.

SPEAKER_00 31:14

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 31:15

It takes a lot of uh stepping out and trust and faith, doesn't it, Scott?

SPEAKER_00 31:19

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 31:20

And it's a it's a day by day, because I know you've talked about it.

SPEAKER_00 31:23

Day by day.

SPEAKER_02 31:24

Yeah. Going forward now to where we are in this present age, God called you into, obviously, mission, missionary service, uh, working with children, working with kids. Tell me a little bit about the program that you know you represent today.

SPEAKER_00 31:43

The four kids is a is a is a foster licensing agency.

SPEAKER_02 31:50

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 31:51

So what we do at our core is to license foster parents.

SPEAKER_02 31:57

And Scott, I'm gonna put your organization on this podcast. We're gonna put a link there for everybody so they can go and see what you guys do.

SPEAKER_00 32:05

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 32:05

And uh and see how they can contribute too as well, because you guys have a lot of needs going on.

SPEAKER_00 32:10

Yeah, I'm sure my boss would love contribution. And if it comes through to the podcast, it will keep my job safe. So then that's a good way of marketing, I love it. But yeah. So but um um, but four kids is a Christian organization. It is. So we only license Christian married couples and Christian singles.

SPEAKER_02 32:44

Is there a reason for that, Scott? It's only Christian married couples and Christian singles. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:49

I mean, there are five licensing agencies in our region.

SPEAKER_02 32:54

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 32:55

And if you're not a Christian or anything, you're you're allowed to be five-apparent, you just go to the different fostering agencies. But I know this because I have four kids, and this is what I am passionate about it. All four of my kids are foster and adopted. And first of all, coming from a foster parent standpoint, I don't know how a person can be a foster parent without the power of Jesus. I'm not going to lie, it's difficult. He's bringing other people's problems and baggage and suitcases and luggage into your imperfect family.

SPEAKER_02 33:45

Yeah. I remember seeing uh one time in church, uh, I think you guys did a presentation uh for kids, it was uh a kid with just a black trash bag.

SPEAKER_00 33:55

Yeah. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 33:56

Black trash bag.

SPEAKER_00 33:57

Most of the time they come in with just maybe nothing.

SPEAKER_01 34:02

Right.

SPEAKER_00 34:03

Because if a CPS goes out, they're in a bad situation, they remove them right away with just the clothes. And that will focus now only to be life and we support our foster parents. So back to the Christian perspective, yeah. We want these kids to see Jesus because we believe that the only healing power in this situation is Jesus. And so if they come into a Christian home and see the love of Jesus, that child is going to get healed faster and better. And you know, the opportunity to share Jesus if the child wants.

SPEAKER_01 34:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 34:58

Our family don't force him, but you know, we show them love. And so, and so that what made me move out here four years ago. Here I was. I've been in ministry for over 30 years. I've been through the foster system as a foster parent. So I really believed in the mission of four kids, which is a home for every child. Actually, we want a Christian home for every child.

SPEAKER_01 35:34

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 35:34

And right now in our region, and when we're speaking, right now, we're in South Florida. In South Florida encompasses five counties. And in those five counties, right now, there are between 15 and 20 kids in the system right now without homes to go to. Because we don't have enough foster families in our region.

SPEAKER_01 36:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 36:09

And so my goal, my job is to go out there and to share the mission, share what God can do through you. And you know, to be to become a foster parent.

SPEAKER_02 36:24

So if someone listening to this right now and they feel that the Lord is tugging on their heart about getting involved as a foster parent, and how how how would they go about getting that information?

SPEAKER_00 36:39

It depends on what region they are, right? Or where they are in the country.

SPEAKER_01 36:45

Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_00 36:46

You know, so I will go on the internet and just, and if you're a Christian, you know, Google Christian foster agencies, favorite based foster agencies, yeah, as chat, VT, GVD or Bronck or whatever it is. There's so many out, yeah. AI too you have out there. And you know, and I will really um challenge you if you want to do that to find a Christian foster. Now not every state will have a Christian foster agency. Many states only the government controls the foster aesthetic.

SPEAKER_01 37:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 37:36

And in in Florida, it's kind of different because we're privatized. I mean, it's the state that removes the Gilded DCF. Uh but but uh but once that is done, then it's our private contracted agencies through the government. So so so we're fortunate to live in Florida. Yeah but but let me tell you this. Thur over 30 years ago now, Florida was at like fourth from the bottom in in foster care.

SPEAKER_01 38:19

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 38:20

48 Wow No, 48 out of 50 states, we were horrible at at foster care. Wow. And uh, I mean the government was right, we need to do something different. So they privatized it. And go figure. You privatize something, private, privatizing can make something work better than the government does it. Who who would it guess? And now we're number fourth in the country in foster care. Wow. Because of our system. I mean, it's not perfect, right? It's still broken, yeah, but it's a lot better than it was 30 years ago.

SPEAKER_02 39:08

Wow. Wow, Scott. Let me back up for a second here with you. Was it that trip overseas that really won your heart to do what you're doing today?

SPEAKER_00 39:19

But you catalys because, like I said, I went on a lot of trips. You know, I've been to a lot of third world countries, a lot of developing countries, a lot of poor countries. But I think it's it's the desire to see where I came from. And what the Lord had done in my life to be that overcomer.

SPEAKER_01 39:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 39:51

And I'm very sensitive to the to the children out there. And I see the pain, I see their suffering, I see their eyes in the foster care system.

unknown 40:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 40:09

Things can be different because of Jesus in your life. And so I think that's where it comes from when I have experienced what Jesus had done in my life, I'm going to share that with others. And God has just read my story and read my path, you know. Twenty years ago, hardly knew anything about the foster system. But because at the time my wife and I decided to foster, Rudy had changed my whole path.

SPEAKER_02 40:57

A simple choice.

SPEAKER_00 40:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 41:01

One choice.

SPEAKER_00 41:02

Yeah. To to open my home as a mission field, to open my home to her, to open my home to little children, everybody changed my path. I still speak and preach and all of that, which is great, but but yeah, it's you know.

SPEAKER_02 41:27

Scott, it has been an absolute pleasure and an honor to have you here today on the Three Doves Podcast, Scott. It's been amazing.

SPEAKER_00 41:37

Thank you.

SPEAKER_02 41:38

And I appreciate the story of overcoming, your story of pressing forward, learning to be a little more humble, learning to laugh a little bit more about ourselves, and just the fact that you have such a heart for God's kids. Thank you again.

SPEAKER_00 41:57

Well, thank you, Jason. I really appreciate that. And your heart for for doing this. I mean, we're here on a Saturday. There's a lot of things that we could be doing on a Saturday in South Florida that that might be more fun, right?

SPEAKER_02 42:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 42:15

Do you have a goat?

SPEAKER_02 42:16

No, I don't.

SPEAKER_00 42:18

Okay. Do you know friends that have boats?

SPEAKER_02 42:21

I do.

SPEAKER_00 42:21

That's that's even smaller, right? And so we can bug you here to open your heart to ministry and want to get Jesus out there in the Easters. And thank you for that.

SPEAKER_02 42:38

You're welcome, brother. God bless you.

SPEAKER_00 42:40

Thank you again.

SPEAKER_02 42:44

Today, Scott's story reminds us that our circumstances don't have to have the final word. God does. Whether facing physical challenges, family struggles, loss, or uncertainty, Scott has learned that gratitude, community, and trust in God can carry us through. If you've ever wondered how God can use your pain for a greater purpose, this conversation is a powerful reminder that he is still at work, even in your pain. Thanks for listening to the Three Doves Podcast season one, and we look forward to bringing more of these podcasts in our season two. So get out there and share Three Doves Podcast the first season, and we look forward to bringing you season two and many more as God allows.