Pastor Scott Berner

Pastor Scott Berner was born and raised in a rural mountain community of the Sierra Nevada mountains in the city of Mi-Wok Village, California. With two brothers and two sisters, he grew up in a German Lutheran home where his mother was a parochial and later public school teacher and father an Iowa farmer and later a timber scaler in saw mills throughout California, Nevada, Oregon and Idaho. He graduated from Concordia Lutheran University - Portland, OR with a B.A. in Pre-Ministry & Education, and then from Seminex-Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary - Berkeley, CA with a Masters of Divinity. Pastor Berner has served congregations in California (2 years in youth ministry, 2 years as an assistant), in North Dakota (3 years in the two point parish of Tuttle-Robinson), and in Idaho (14 years as lead pastor in Eagle, and 3 years as Interim at Mountain Home). Although he enjoys some degree of all aspects of congregational life and ministry - Pastor Berner's areas of personal passion include transformational ministry dynamics through evangelism, preaching and teaching discipleship for the development small groups, leadership and diverse expressions of worship. Pastor Berner and his wife Kathy Jo have three children: Alex 26 (in Boise), Mathew 25 (in Baltimore, MD), and Christi 24 (in Seoul Korea). As a couple the Berners have been active with ministry and community service facilitating prison transition and recovery group ministries, and both enjoy biking, hiking, while always being known in their community as "regulars" wherever there is a local gym.