News and Announcements

SFC has an EMERGENCY that we need your help with!

For several months, Scott Free Clinic has publicly announced a vital need to replace our ministry car before it fully failed mechanically — the car is an ESSENTIAL TOOL for the ministry. We were attempting to raise funds for this need but were not successful. Unfortunately, two days ago the car did finally fail mechanically, and the result has been an almost complete stop of SFC’s critically-needed services to the people, pastors, and churches we serve fro your neighborhood to around the world.

A part that has been discontinued is needed as a possibility to move the car toward being able to run again, but there is no guarantee it will and we have not been able to locate the part yet; even if the part enables the car to start running again, there is a list of additional repairs needed soon after that will become increasingly necessary. Multiple mechanics have told us we should not spend another penny to get this car running; we have already spent about four times the initial purchase price of the car in repairs since we have had it.

The result of not being able to replace the car before the breakdown is an almost full inability to function in order to provide ministry services. So we need to IMMEDIATELY raise funds so that we can immediately replace this vehicle and restore ministry services.

If you are able and willing to help, we need your support right away. You can donate online from our website by clicking here. Any amount is helpful. For those of you who can be more generous, we would appreciate your sacrificial support.

Thank you!

October marks SFC’s 12th anniversary as a fruitful international ministry

We’re excited to be celebrating our 12th anniversary as an international ministry throughout the month of October.

Over the past dozen years, we have witnessed:

• • Thousands of changed lives.
  • People overcoming mental health issues and overcoming or thriving with mental illness.
  • Pastors supported with “Pastor Care” counseling and consultations.
  • Suicidal individuals who are now thriving.
  • Marriages rekindled and reconciled.
  • Family conflicts reconciled.
  • Couples trained in the world’s number one couple communication program.
  • People becoming physically fit.
  • Consulting projects that have heled churches and organizations better accomplish their missions.
  • Launching the design and development of a pastor education program for 30,000 churches in Uganda.
  • Sharing the Gospel, making new disciples, baptisms, discipling people, and training people in effective relational evangelism …

… and more!

We invite and encourage you to celebrate with us by learning more about us, starting with exploring more of our website.

There are two great ways you can help us continue to provide critically-needed service to people around the world:

1. We greatly need your financial support. We have a proven and highly effective ministry model, but very little financial support to deliver ministry services. You can make a donation today, and/or become a regular Care Partner with us by clicking here.

2. Become a Prayer Partner with us. It’s easy, but of so important since everything we do at SFC relies on prayer. Learn more about what it would be like to be a SFC Prayer Patner by watching this very short video here..

On behalf of our President and Board of Directors, thank you to all the people who have encouraged us over the years, who have partnered with us in prayer, and the few who have made this ministry possible through your financial support. Our foremost thanks and gratitude to God for His blessing, provision, faithfulness, and for using this ministry to serve so many in His name.

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.

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.