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Scott Family Newsletter – October, 2025

Dearest brothers & sisters, eternal family & friends,

2025 has been full to overflowing in life & ministry, just since our last update about our summer efforts to spread & glorify the Gospel in a 2 Thessalonians 3:1 way!

PLEASE PRAY for these MEN I've been able to share the Gospel with just recently: 

>>>  Jonathan & Jose were making a delivery in Middleton a few weeks ago, near where we live. The Lord brought them to our attention, they heard the Gospel, received cold water bottles, & a tract to take with them, 

>>> Spencer & Colby are both men in the their 20s who are from the area, who the Lord brought to church in the last month, & who have shown an interest in the Gospel, 

>>> Fran & Dicky are both men older than me who have just begun hearing the Gospel regularly as the Spirit has moved them to come to church on Sundays with their wives who have been coming alone for years, &

>>> Aiden & Travis who are both strangers to me, but who both heard the Gospel when the Spirit brought me across their paths, as Proverbs 16:9 describes. I met Aiden at an air show I recently attended & we chatted for a long while about troubling current events he thought were strange. I asked him if he knew those kinds of things were in the Bible & followed Jesus' model of explaining the Gospel in Luke 13:1-5 in light of deaths & disasters. I've never met Travis, but just this past Sunday, a young man named Leo who is a new member at our church came up after the service & told me he was concerned his co-worker named Travis was planning to join the Freemasons (Shriners) & was sure that wasn't good, but couldn't explain why. I texted him this link from GotQuestions.org (gotquestions.org/free-masonry.html), which is a wonderful, Biblically solid website I share frequently as a starting point when someone wants a long answer time doesn't allow me to get into on the spot. Leo sent me this text yesterday morning: "Praise God! My friend Travis decided not to join the Freemasons...especially after sending the link you sent me. Thank you! I'll ask him if he wants to come with me to Bible study on Thursday. Hopefully he'll want to go!"  

PLEASE CELEBRATE God's continuing GOODNESS in significant progress toward the next Bible Gems book being available in 2026, as well as the first public announcement of the AMAZING Gospel opportunities the Scott family the Lord has arranged for us to use for His Glory here in spiritually dark New England:

>>> A small group of men in our town & the next town over (Middleton & Wakefield) have been planning a NEW work we'll launch in 2026 we're tentatively calling EVERY MAN IN TOWN, just because that's who we're trying to reach! What's taking shape right now is a plan to invite EVERY MAN IN TOWN who's 16 & older to a public gathering where one of the men will TEACH something they know, we'll EAT, & then I'll share the Gospel in a way that connects to what's been taught that day. For example, one of the men actually builds small boats in his garage! After he demonstrates how he does that, I'll share Jesus' message to the men around him from Matthew 4 (ask Jesus to make you fishers of men) or John 21 (understanding what men who REALLY love Jesus do with their lives).

>>> Remember the GotQuestions.org story above? We've been in touch with them & they've kindly invited us to partner with them to increase our Gospel reach in our community through the use of not only the links on their site, but with a NEW website that will appear on GotQuestions.org which had 17.4 MILLION page views last month. The details are still coming together, but we can now share the NEW website with you here. Please take a look at MyBibleTutor.com as the Lord leads. The site's design & creation was donated by a good friend (if you're needing help in that area let me know & I'll put you in touch with him) & we'll be promoting it heavily in our area beginning in 2026 as a way to bring people to our church & the new EVERY MAN IN TOWN outreach & hear the Gospel here, but also as a way to reach FAR beyond our corner of New England, Lord willing!

Will you count the cost with us, as Jesus said all who consider following Him should do (find out more at gotquestions.org/count-the-cost.html)?

>>> $4.04 is the amount for every copy of the Bible Gems books cost to print & deliver here so we can share the Gospel. 

>>> $16 is the new monthly cost to host the donated MyBibleTutor.com website that is a tool to share the Gospel.

>>> $500 is the monthly cost starting in November to spread the Gospel through MyBibleTutor.com on the GotQuestions.org site. They don't partner with very many organizations & even when they do, that partnership usually costs MUCH more than what they've asked us for as they are being generous in every way, considering our small size & our mission that is similar to theirs.

"Those who’ve not known the joy of giving believe Satan’s lie that giving means parting with happiness, rather than finding it. They’re like the kid who won’t gaze into the Grand Canyon because he’s playing a video game or seeing what his friends are doing on Facebook. Veteran givers know that the joys of investing in God’s work to reach others for Christ and care for the needy brings a purity of joy and satisfaction that nothing you can order on Amazon or buy at the car lot possibly can" (Randy Alcorn).

1,000 copies of the new Bible Gems book & the new ministry efforts for 2026 we've described above will cost  $10,232 that we don't have, but are trusting the Lord to provide.

>>> If you receive our ministry updates & have been blessed or encouraged, but have never donated, would you please consider giving any amount toward that $10,232 cost in one of the 3 ways below?

>>> If you're considering a tax-deductible donation to charity at the end of the year, would you please ask the Lord in prayer if contributing toward the needed $10,232 at one of the 3 ways below might be one way He would have you spread the Gospel in 2026?

1. Click on this link: https://give.villagemissions.org/donate/missionaries/missionary-detail/a-scott-dave-and-shannon

2. Visit ScottFamilyJourney.org & click the "Give Online" button in the top right corner

3. Mail a check to Dave & Shannon Scott at 187 Kings Highway in Middleton, NH 03887. If you use this option, your donation will only be tax deductible if you make your check out to Village Missions. You can make a check out to us, but it won't be tax deductible. 

"Whatever you do, do it from the heart, as something done for the Lord and not for people..." (Colossians 3:23),

We 3 Scotts in New Hampshire love you. Jesus loves you MORE!

Living for Jesus,

Pastor Dave Scott

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Dave, Shannon, & John Scott

Living for Him with you,
Pastor Dave for Shannon & John Scott
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