News and Announcements

March 2024 marks 15 years of blogging about extraordinary living

People across the country and around the world have followed the ministry of Scott Free Clinic, and have benefitted in some significant ways, by being regular readers of the blog on the SFC website written by our President, Dr. James Scott, Jr.

This month we’re celebrating the 15th anniversary of our blog, which features more than 2,900 hundred articles on 10 topics: Mental health, brain health, church, church leadership, Christian living, relationships, human behavior, fitness, personal development, and professional development. Read more about the blog in a new blog post here.

Don’t miss future posts! You can subscribe to our blog (which is searchable) for free on our website here. With so many articles on such important subjects, we think you’ll find plenty to interest, inform, encourage, and challenge you.

Scott Free Clinic adds two new, permanent core services!

After nine years of providing six core services for free to people around the world, Scott Free Clinic is excited to announce that as of TODAY we have added two new, permanent core services: Brain Health Coaching and Evangelism Training.

BRAIN HEALTH COACHING
Earlier this year our President, Dr. James Scott, Jr., completed his education and training, and earned his certification, as a Dr. Daniel Amen/Amen Clinics certified Brain Health Professional. SFC decided to link our services with this connection to Amen Clinics because Dr. Daniel Amen and Amen Clinics is a world leader in brain health. Dr. Amen is a Christian psychiatrist who is double board certified in psychiatry and recognized as one of the best psychiatrists in America. Even more, as a neuroscientist he is a pioneer in brain health specifically in the use of SPECT brain imaging — Amen Clinics has the world’s largest library of brain scans with more than 200,000 of their clients receiving scans. Amen Clinics has published more than 70 clinical studies on brain health and brain imaging. By pairing the knowledge and practice experience of Amen Clinics with Scott Free Clinic’s expertise in counseling, we will be able to better serve our counseling clients.

EVANGELISM TRAINING
Training in how to effectively share the Gospel and make new disciples has always been available through Scott Free Clinic’s Consulting services. But with more Christians and church leaders wanting (and NEEDING) to take advantage of this outstanding opportunity, SFC has separated this training as a “stand alone” permanent core service.

This training equips Christians in how to use “The Answer,” a highly effective evangelistic presentation, paired with a simple model, that has been used for nearly half a century by Christians to make hundreds of thousands of new disciples not just across the country, but around the world.

As a valuable foundation to evangelism training, our President wrote “The Great Appointment,” (you can find that on our website here) which helps Christians, church leaders, and churches understand their role in God’s great mission; then, this evangelism training helps them to effectively carry out their role.

“The Answer” and the training for it was originally developed by John Hendee, and he has relaunched his international efforts at equipping Christians in evangelism TODAY with the launch of a new ministry for this specific training purpose, called You Share Jesus. Check out the online, on-demand, FREE training provided through the NEW You Share Jesus website here.

If you have any questions or would like to take advantage of either of these new core services, contact Dr. James Scott, Jr. at dr.scott@scottfreeclinic.org.

SFC opens its first office on October 1, 2023!

As Scott Free Clinic wades into its 9th anniversary in October, we’ll actually be operating from this international ministry’s first office!

Yesterday, our President signed a rental agreement to secure use of a small (VERY small) office in the East Village neighborhood of San Diego. This small office will provide private, uninterrupted workspace for providing our ministry services. Having a dedicated, private place from which to work should dramatically improve the delivery of our services, as well as deepen and broaden the services we can provide.

However, the office is too small for local clients to meet in, so our President will still be meeting local counseling clients in different places to provide local services, but it will greatly improve our capacity to serve others all across the country and in countries around the world.

THANK YOU to all of you who prayed for our ability to secure an office for the next 12 months, and for the few who donated just enough to make this happen. We continue to need your support so that Scott Free Clinic can help people around the world change their lives. Please consider making a donation today at https://www.scottfreeclinic.org/donations/.