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You’re invited to join us for a “Month of Prayer for Scott Free Clinic” starting September 1

From the formation of this ministry, to everything we do 12 years later, prayer has been a vitally important part of this ministry. That’s why we’re excited to invite you to participate in a sustained period of prayer for SFC as we launch our “Month of Prayer for Scott Free Clinic” initiative starting on September 1.

During this time, we’re inviting our followers, the friends of this ministry, our current and former clients, and the general public to do just one thing: pray for Scott Free Clinic each day throughout September. You can pray at any time, and anywhere, for however long or short you want because there’s no group activities for this initiative, we’re just encouraging you to have a sustained (daily) time of prayer for SFC throughout the entire month.

To help you as you pray, there are some important things you can include in your prayers on behalf of SFC, which are as follows:

• • We always start our prayer with giving thanks and praise to God for the changing and changed lives He has produced through the work of this ministry. We fully rely on God to bring transformation as we serve people in need, and we are grateful to have witnessed thousands of changed lives during the course of this ministry.
  • Pray for all of the individuals, couples, families, church leaders, and churches that SFC is currently serving. Ask God to guide our service to them and to bring healing, wholeness, and health to the lives, churches, and ministries we’re serving, and that He would be glorified in doing so.
  • Pray for the exciting continued refining of our proven model of ministry. Dr. Scott brought a model of counseling that had already been proven over decades to be biblically-sound and clinically-excellent, and we continue to refine that. We’ve enhanced the model — which already included fitness and fitness nutrition consulting — to include brain health coaching, and we’re currently adding enhanced neuroscience and additional brain health certification. Additionally, we’re beginning to explore more areas of human flourishing and may expand that into both our counseling and consulting services. We remain committed to providing the very best possible counseling-related services to help people change their lives.
  • Please pray for our consulting project of developing a pastor education program for a fellowship of 30,000 churches in Uganda. This is a slow process, but we’re grateful to be able to come alongside these church leaders and serve them by providing basic education for serving as pastors in the local church.
  • Finally — and of great importance — SFC has three major financial needs that we seek your diligent and persistent prayers for: (1) This past week we launched our “Save Our Office” campaign. We have our current office only through the end of September. Before September ends, we must raise $9,588.00 so that we can sign a new rental agreement prior to September 30 in order to be able to keep our office for another year. Our office is an ESSENTIAL tool in providing the services of this ministry, we absolutely cannot lose it! Doing so would literally cripple this ministry and result in radically reducing all of the critically-needed services we provide. (2) For months now, we have been sharing an URGENT NEED to replace our ministry car before it fully fails mechanically. Our ministry car is an ESSENTIAL tool for this ministry that we cannot operate without. We need to replace this car with another car that is as new as possible, and we need to do this ASAP. We’re not even close to being able to do this yet, and support for this cause has stalled. Please pray for the funds to get this done before we wind up in a major crisis of no ministry transportation. (3) Since late 2025, this ministry has been experiencing a serious drought in the regular financial support needed simply for this ministry to exist. We operate at the most minimal level but have been able to do so by the support of just four people and one church. While this drought has been happening, we’ve continued to experience huge demand for our services, and will likely end the year having served a record number of people for a one-year period. We cannot sustain this with our current lack of support. We need many more people — individuals, couples, families, churches, businesses, etc. — who are willing to support the Scott Free Clinic ministry on a regular basis (preferably monthly).

Thank you for your willingness to participate in this prayer initiative. We’re excited because as James writes, “… The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results” (James 5:16b).

SFC launches vital “Save Our Office” campaign

As Scott Free Clinic nears its 12th anniversary as an international non-profit ministry, we are thanking God that for the last three years we have had a very (very!) small office to function out of.

It wasn’t always like that.

For our first nine years, ministry services had to be coordinated from our ministry car and a coffee shop! Making the change to having a dedicated office transformed both the number of people SFC can serve, and the overall quality of the eight different services we offer.

For that reason, we absolutely CANNOT lose our office!

We have the existing office only until the end of September, so we have a little more than one month to raise the $9,588.00 needed to sign a new rental agreement that will keep SFC in its current location for another year. Because this is an ESSENTIAL need, we’re asking our followers, the friends of this ministry, former clients, the general public — everyone! — to please consider making a generous donation TODAY to our “Save Our Office” fund.

Scott Free Clinic has been used by God to help thousands of people significantly change their lives. We’ve helped scores of church leaders in their darkest, most difficult, and trying moments. We’ve provided consultation to church leaders, churches, and organizations to help them better accomplish their missions. We’ve helped change lives by addressing the need of the whole-person not only with biblically-sound, clinically excellent counseling, but counseling that is enhanced with brain health coaching, fitness coaching, and fitness nutrition education. And we’ve trained scores of couples in the world’s number one communication program, “Couple Communication I.”

SFC is making a significant difference in the lives of people, pastors, and churches around the world. Your support to help us save our office directly enables this life-changing work.

You can make a donation online from our website by clicking here (please select the “Save Our Office” fund from the three fund options), or use the QR code located under the photo in this announcement. Scott Free Clinic is recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) public charity, so all donations are tax deductible. Thank you in advance for your generous support.

SFC materials to be incorporated to help train thousands of Christian counselors

Scott Free Clinic is pleased to announce that some of its materials and research on family issues are being integrated into a new academic book to be used in an educational course to train thousands of Christian counselors.

SFC’s resources have been used in the past within churches and in the training of counselors. This new use of our work will extend that reach considerably by making a portion of our research and materials part of a larger curriculum designed to educate and equip Christian counselors.

This development comes at a particularly important time. During the past year and a half, SFC has experienced a skyrocketing demand for counseling involving marriage and family conflict. The volume of requests has made the urgent need for trained counselors increasingly clear.

We are grateful that materials developed through SFC’s work can now be used more broadly to help prepare thousands of Christian counselors to respond to families in conflict. Through those counselors, these resources will be able to reach and assist far more people than SFC could serve directly. We are encouraged by this opportunity and thankful that SFC’s research and materials can contribute to meeting a critical and growing need for effective help for marriages and families facing conflict.

NEW RESOURCE! Free SFC booklet, Side hustles, the gig economy, and the new world of work

Scott Free Clinic has released a new FREE downloadable booklet, Side hustles, the gig economy, and the new world of work, created to help people cut through the hype, conflicting advice, and social media narratives surrounding side hustles and today’s rapidly changing world of work.

Should everyone have a side hustle? Has the gig economy fundamentally changed the way we should think about earning income? Or has a powerful cultural message convinced many people that they should always be working, even when doing so may not improve their lives? Drawing on a broad range of current, credible research, this booklet takes an honest, balanced look at these important questions.

Rather than promoting or condemning side hustles, this resource examines both the opportunities and the challenges. It explores why so many people feel pressure to develop additional income streams, the genuine benefits side hustles can provide, the often-overlooked costs in time and relationships, and the realities behind many of the success stories promoted online. Most importantly, it helps readers think carefully about whether a side hustle is the right choice for their circumstances rather than simply following cultural trends.

Whether you are considering starting a side hustle, already have one, or simply want a clearer understanding of the gig economy and how it is reshaping work, this booklet will help you separate evidence from marketing, social media influence, and popular opinion.

Side hustles, the gig economy, and the new world of work is available now as a FREE download from the Scott Free Clinic Self-Help Toolbox, which you can access by clicking here.

NEW RESOURCE! Free booklet from Scott Free Clinic offers insights on loss, grief, and mourning

Scott Free Clinic has released a new booklet, “Insights on Loss, Grief, & Mourning,” designed to offer insights into some of life’s most difficult experiences. Whether you are dealing with a personal loss yourself or trying to find ways to support a friend or family member, this resource explores what these experiences actually involve.

This FREE resource moves past common misconceptions — including the mythical “five stages of grief” model — to provide a more accurate view of how people experience loss and introduces the specific “tasks of mourning.”

Recognizing that everyone handles these experiences differently, the booklet also notes distinctions between “head grievers” and “heart grievers,” and touches on ways that loss and grief can affect your ability to think, focus, and function on a daily basis. To help manage these effects, the resource offers practical, everyday strategies as well.

“Insights on Loss, Grief, & Mourning” is available now as a free download from the Scott Free Clinic Self-Help Toolbox which you can access by clicking here.

SFC has a VITAL NEED that we need your help with!

Scott Free Clinic has reached a point that we MUST replace our ministry car, but the car is an ESSENTIAL TOOL for this ministry. We need to replace it with as new a model vehicle as possible, as soon as possible, before our current vehicle fully fails mechanically.

Our current used vehicle replaced the previous one that eventually almost died before we could replace it. We have since spent almost three times the purchase price of our current car on repairs to keep it running, and it now must have a major repair that would cost almost double the original purchase price for this single repair. Given the mileage on and the age of the vehicle, and the persistent repair needs that drain our Operating Fund – directly impacting our capacity for delivering ministry services – we now need to replace this vehicle ASAP. It would be extremely beneficial to this ministry to replace the current car with as new a model as possible to be able to avoid high repair costs that drain our Operating Fund and impact services.

If you would be willing to help us with this need, you can donate online from our website at https://www.scottfreeclinic.org/donations/ or use the QR code provided above. SFC is a 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity, so all donations are tax deductible. Thank you!

NEW RESOURCE! Discover where your beliefs truly stand

At Scott Free Clinic, we’ve created a new assessment tool designed to help Christians honestly assess the alignment of their beliefs with a biblical worldview. In a culture where faith is often mixed with secular or non-biblical ideas, clarity matters more than ever.

Recent research shows a striking reality: only 4 percent of Americans hold a biblical worldview. Among self-identified Christians, that number rises only slightly to 6 percent, and only 37 percent of pastors maintain a biblical worldview. When we look closer at pastoral roles, the breakdown is even more revealing:

• • Senior pastors: 41 percent.
  • Associate pastors: 28 percent.
  • Teaching pastors: 13 percent.
  • Children’s and youth pastors: 12 percent.
  • Executive pastors: 4 percent.

These statistics highlight how critical it is for both individuals and church leaders to evaluate beliefs honestly and intentionally.

If you want to assess your own worldview, or if you are a church leader interested in providing this assessment tool to your members, you can find and download a FREE copy of the NEW “Biblical Worldview and Syncretism Self-Assessment” tool in SFC’s Self-Help Toolbox, which you can access by clicking here.

Take this step toward understanding your faith clearly and ensuring your beliefs are grounded in Scripture.

SFC is deepening its expertise in Brain Health Coaching!

In 2023, Scott Free Clinic added Brian Heath Coaching as one of our regular eight core services. As of yesterday, we’re investing in deepening our expertise in Brain Health Coaching to provide SFC clients the very best possible counseling services.

SFC was able to add Brain Health Coaching as a regular service because our Founder and President, Dr. James Scott, Jr. — already a respected counselor who has helped many thousands of people nationally and internationally to change their lives through biblically-sound and clinically-excellent counseling — earned his certification as a Brain Health Professional by studying brain health through Amen University, especially focusing on the pioneering research done by world-renowned psychiatrist and brain health expert, Dr. Daniel Amen. Now, as a charter member of the American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC), Dr. Scott received a scholarship from Light University (a division of the AACC) to complete an additional certification in neuroscience and brain health.

“Scott Free Clinic added the Brain Health Coaching component to our ministry services because sometimes what has often been thought to be mental health issues are really brain health issues. By developing our expertise in Brain Health Coaching, we’re more equipped to better serve our clients and to expand on our commitment to excellence in counseling,” said Dr. Scott.

Dr. Laurene Enns joins the SFC Board of Directors

Scott Free Clinic is excited to announce that Dr. Laurene Enns has joined the Scott Free Clinic Board of Directors as both a Director and as Secretary of the Board.

Laurene has a Master of Arts in Leadership from Trinity Western University in Langley, BC, Canada. The focus of these studies were servant leadership and her thesis was on incorporating servant leadership with co-creation. She worked almost seven years as a Lead Evaluator and International Coaching Federation Leadership Coach for two United States federal government grants at a health sciences university. After 20 years in healthcare, both hospital and higher education, the next adventure was completing a Doctorate of Education in Health Professions. The focus of her research study was placing the patient as an equal partner in the higher education team for all health profession programs.

Laurene has walked with Jesus since a young child and has participated in many volunteer ministry roles over the years. She has a passion for prayer, Deaf culture and American Sign Language, family, art, music, building connections, adult education, research, and leadership.

SFC recruited to develop pastoral education program for 30,000 churches in Uganda

During our President’s visit to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in late October/early November, he met with a key leader who heads the church growth department (which includes evangelism, discipleship, church planting, and doctrine) for a fellowship of 30,000 churches in Uganda. The churches there have an urgent need for pastor education, and our President, Dr. James Scott, Jr., was sought out to design and develop that educational program.

Dr. Scott has been working on defining the needs with the Ugandan leaders and have finalized an agreement for SFC to take on, as a consulting project, developing the needed educational program. This means SFC will have an opportunity to significantly influence the spiritual development of 30,000 pastors throughout Uganda, and the churches they serve. This is a monumental task for a very poor ministry such as SFC, but with God’s help we will accomplish it. Please pray for us!

New consulting project includes taking on interim pastor role, consulting with church for new pastor search

One of Scott Free Clinic’s free eight core services is consulting with churches, as well as Christian ministries and organizations. We do a lot to help others fulfill their mission well. Yesterday evening, our President, Dr. James Scott, Jr., formalized a new consulting project with a church in the San Diego area which will include him taking on the role of interim pastor at the church, and also consulting with the elders and the pastor search committee during their search for a new senior minister.

We’re excited to come alongside this church to serve and support them in this fashion. Dr. Scott has 39 years experience as a minister, and through his work leading SFC he counsels and consults with church leaders across the country and around the world. Between serving the dedicated team of elders at this church, and getting to know and serve the people of this congregation, Dr. Scott looks forward to preaching regularly while the church searches for their next preacher.

While this is a significant consulting project, Scott Free Clinic will continue to provide its eight core services.

SFC will be a contributor to a major new evangelism ministry for all of Africa

Through the consulting work SFC has been doing with John Hendee, the founder and leader of the international ministry, “You Share Jesus,” which equips Christians, church leaders, whole churches, and Christian organizations around the world in highly effective relational evangelism (check out their free online, on-demand training in evangelism at https://www.yousharejesus.org/), our President (Dr. James Scott, Jr.) will be traveling with John in late October to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for the final planning and launch of the new ministry, Union of African Peace Makers, which will focus on evangelism throughout all of Africa.

Dr. Scott learned this relational evangelism method and use of this evangelism presentation decades ago and has been using it with great fruitfulness since. Then a few years ago, SFC served John for about a year while he was Chair of World Evangelism at Hope International University. Now, as John takes on the role of architect for crafting the significant Union Of African Peace Makers (UAMP) ministry, it’s been our privilege to resume consulting support to John, which will include SFC contributing to some of the work of UAMP. We’re excited to do so, as the potential that can be realized from this new evangelistic work is a great harvest for the kingdom of God. Please pray for SFC as we strive to make a beneficial contribution to this new work throughout all of Africa, and to be a wise and helpful consultant to John and the You Share Jesus ministry. Also, we need your financial support to be able to offer services like this; you can donate to the Scott Free Clinic ministry from our website here.