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Published on: 3/29/2007
Last Visited: 4/17/2008
Scott Bryant is the Founder and Executive Director of Equipping the Family Ministries.He and his wife Kimberly are blessed with 6 beautiful children.After graduating from Bible College, Scott began a pilgrimage looking for "real ministry".He was involved in a variety of ministries including: Inner-City Ministry, Christian Camping, Local Church Ministry, Christian School Administration, and Men's Ministry.Though he developed a great deal of experience in these arenas, he increasingly felt God teaching him that "real ministry" began first and foremost in his own family.
This caused him to begin looking for the most effective ways to unleash his family for real ministry.God opened their heart to home schooling, their womb to more children, and their church involvement to family-integrated worship.
This led Scott to begin Belayer so that he could help other families begin to experience the heights that God in his grace had let his family to.He and his family used a 28 foot climbing wall during their Seminars to bring to life the mountain as a metaphor for the spiritual journey.The climbing wall quickly became logistically challenging, and God opened up other avenues of ministry.
Scott and his family moved to a retreat center in Sedalia, Colorado where they would host rental groups and retreats.As they began to look around for a church to attend, the Lord began to fan into flame their hunger to be a part of a family-integrated church.This led them to have Belayer Ministries (now Equipping the Family Ministries) begin The Mountain, a non-denominational Christian church in Castle Rock, Colorado. www.mountainchurch.org
Scott is currently one of the Pastor-Elders in this exciting new church work.He loves to see men seriously committing themselves to Biblical family leadership in the local church.He pryas that Belayer will have many opportunities to encourage and equip men all across the country to climb the heights of God's love.
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Doug and his family took a much different path to Equipping the Family Ministries than did his partner and good friend Scott Bryant and his family.