Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, the Rev. Dr. George Scott attended Michigan State University, where he majored in Labor and Industrial Relations. He also holds a master’s degree in Business Management from Central Michigan University. In 1989, he moved to Hawaiʻi  to participate in a year long residency in Clinical Pastoral Education with Pacific Health Ministries and never left.  He continued his ministerial calling, graduating from the Chicago Theological Seminary in 1996 from the Master of Divinity program. He was ordained as a United Church of Christ minister in 1997 at Central Union Church, United Church of Christ. In 2013, Rev. Scott received a Doctorate in Counseling and Pastoral Care from the San Francisco Theological Seminary with a focus in separation, loss, and grief.

 

Rev. Scott is currently an Academy Chaplain and Counselor in the Psycho-Social/Support and Wellness Department of Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. Rev. Scott serves the aged community as an Associate Chaplain with the Arcadia Family of Companies – Retirement Residences. He also enjoys sharing Cedar, his Assistance Dogs of Hawaiʻi Companion Dog, at school, with Arcadia residents, and as part of a Hawaiʻi community response team, including emergency services, to assist in healing and grief response needs. Most recently Rev. Scott was a guest lecturer at Andover Newton at Yale Divinity School in the inaugural Preparation for Clinical Pastoral Education course. Rev. Scott has been involved with youth, young adults and family related ministries through his work as Associate Minister at Central United Church of Christ, Honolulu, The Hawaiʻi Conference of The United Church of Christ, and as Varsity Football Coach at Punahou School. Rev. Scott resides in Hawaiʻi with his wife, Bridget. They have four grown children.