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Scott T. Courbron Biography
My grandparents moved from Canada in the big migration of the thirties. They settled in Auburn, near the old Auburn drive in, where my father was born. My mother was one of twelve kids, born and raised in Cumberland.
I was born in Lewiston in 1967, the oldest of three children. I have a sister and a brother. My parents were both believers and raised us in church. They struggled with their faith, but always knew that faith in God was the way to go.
Growing up we moved a lot, but stayed pretty much between Portland and Lewiston. When I hit Jr. High School we moved to New Gloucester, we continued to move around, but stayed in New Gloucester thru my high school years.
My dad built roads for Sergeants and Blue Rock companies. He became sick with heart problems and diabetes as I was growing up. As a result of my father’s illnesses I grew up without a lot of money.
My parents were always doing what they could for other people. My dad thought that it was important for us to learn to deal with and help other people.
In High school I was set up to take an internship with a local TV station in Portland, but at the last minute I declined to be able to get some Bible training. My desire was to see if what I had learned in church was real. I also wanted to learn self discipline and how to live my own Christian life.
I attended Word of Life Bible Institute, which was a four year Bible major in one year. We were trained in ministry basics, and in basic Bible knowledge. It was a tough year, but I thrived because I loved ministering to and helping people. At school I was involved in personal evangelism and in Rescue Mission work on weekends. The rescue mission was in Albany, NY. It was there that I learned to preach, and deal with those who were destroyed by addiction. The Rescue mission offered me a position as weekend supervisor. I declined because I wanted to try youth work.
My summer ministry at the end of the school year was done in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The Rescue Mission there was starting a youth ministry. I lived in the dorm with the guys who had come out of addiction and turned their lives over to God.
After the year at school, I had to work. I also wasn’t sure what to do next and needed time to figure it out. I worked at a cabinet warehouse in Lewiston. After a year I decided to go on with my training, and see what God would do with me.
I went back to Word of Life to a new school called the School of Youth Ministries. It was an intensive one year course in ministry in general, and youth work specifically. I was involved in all forms of youth ministry as the leader of a travel team. At the end of that year I needed to do another internship to be able to graduate. I went to a church in western PA. That area, near Punxsutawney had a large Amish population. I went there to work with a church youth group.
After I graduated, I was asked to go to Pittsburgh, PA to start a church youth group at a small, new church in the city. I was there for a year before I moved to New Jersey to be near my fiancée. We were married within a year. We worked together in a church elementary age ministry, and I worked whatever secular jobs I could find. It was not long until we got bit by the ministry bug again and started to look around for a ministry to work in full time.
We heard thru a ministry job service, that a camp in Maine was struggling and needed help. We went to missions’ training school, and headed to Township 6, near Weld ME, to work at Blueberry Mt. Bible Camp. While there I went to EMT training. We worked in the needy youth populations in Lewiston, and Portland. I spoke at the Lewiston Rescue Mission a couple of times. After four years, we moved to New Hampshire, to help expand a youth group into a regional ministry. While there we participated in the creation of a ministry that would plant churches, radio programs, and license pastors. I received a license to minister, and became a reverend. I taught current events, and Bible in two different Christian schools as a guest teacher. My wife and I were Sunday school teachers also. I worked as a special needs bus driver, and continued my education as an EMT. I eventually worked as a nationally registered EMT Intermediate for a world wide company in Mass.
We moved back to Maine because we missed it, but also because we wanted to settle in to a house. We heard that a church in South Paris needed help, so we moved to West Paris in 2000.
Since having moved here, we have worked at the West Paris Baptist Church, doing what ever we could do. Filling the pulpit for Pastor Tyner when needed, prayer meeting Bible studies, vacation bible schools ect… We have also worked ministering to single moms, written a book on discipleship, and worked in a children’s ministry called Awana. We continue doing whatever God puts before us to do.
We came to Paris Hill and First Baptist Church as a fill in speaker but soon found a place where we could use our abilities and experience to help people grow and grow closer to God. |
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