Scott Morie is an American Baptist pastor whose ministry has included youth work, church pastoring, church planting, denominational missions, and congregational revitalization. Educated in business management and theology, he has served churches and Baptist associations in Oklahoma, Arkansas, and other parts of the United States.
Background
Morie was born on November 4, 1956, in Knoxville, Tennessee, to Don E. Morie and Helen Gwendolyn Insco Morie. His family later lived in the Tulsa area, where he attended Memorial High School and completed his early formation before entering professional and religious service.
His mother was a nurse who also supported her husband's church work and was active in Christian ministries. The family environment connected Morie with Baptist congregational life and helped place his later pastoral career within the broader religious culture of Oklahoma and the American South.
Education
Morie studied business management at Oklahoma State University, receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in 1984. Oklahoma State, founded in 1890 as Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College, developed into a major public research university in Stillwater, with programs spanning business, agriculture, science, and professional education.
He then studied at Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary in Memphis, receiving a Master of Divinity degree in 1987. The seminary trains ministers for Baptist pastoral, missionary, and educational service and emphasizes biblical and theological preparation for church ministry. Morie's transition from business education to theological study accompanied his movement into full-time pastoral and missionary work.
Career
Morie began his ministry as youth director of Gracemont Baptist Church in Tulsa, serving from 1978 to 1981. He then worked as youth minister at Arrow Heights Baptist Church in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, from 1981 to 1983. These early positions placed him in congregational work with young people and church programs during the first stage of his pastoral career.
He became pastor of Gladden Baptist Church in Parkin, Arkansas, in 1985. He later completed his theological education at Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary and, after graduation, served as a church planter with the North American Mission Board. Church planting formed part of the Southern Baptist missionary effort to establish and strengthen congregations in North America.
Morie subsequently held pastoral and denominational leadership roles in Oklahoma. He served as director of missions for the Cimarron Baptist Association, an association of churches that cooperates in missions, church revitalization, disaster relief, and related ministries. In that role he discussed efforts to revitalize declining congregations, coordinate trained disaster-relief teams, and support Baptist churches serving diverse communities.
His ministry has also included participation in broader Oklahoma Baptist activities, including convention and associational meetings. In later years he served in church leadership in northeastern Oklahoma, where his work continued to combine congregational care, missions, and cooperation among Baptist churches.
Achievements
Morie led and supported church revitalization, missions, and disaster-relief work through Baptist associational ministry in Oklahoma, including efforts involving declining congregations and trained relief teams.
As a Baptist minister, Morie combined pastoral service with church planting and cross-cultural ministry among Hispanic, Korean, Chinese, and other congregations in Oklahoma.
(An autobiographical ministry article in which Morie discu...)
2024
Religion
Morie is a Baptist Christian and has served in pastoral, church-planting, missions, and denominational leadership roles. His ministry has included preaching, prayer, congregational development, church revitalization, disaster relief, and cooperation among Baptist congregations.
His religious outlook emphasizes biblical authority, prayer, evangelism, service, and the Christian mission. His work with churches serving Hispanic, Korean, Chinese, and other communities reflects the Baptist tradition's emphasis on local congregations, missionary activity, and cooperation through regional and national networks.
Views
Morie's documented religious reflections emphasize dependence on God, prayer, biblical guidance, evangelism, and service to local communities. His ministry writings present missions as both a local and international responsibility, with churches called to cooperate in serving congregations, communities, and people from different cultural backgrounds.
Personality
Morie has described his ministry in terms of prayer, service, cooperation, and enthusiasm for missions. In an account of his work with the Cimarron Baptist Association, he emphasized the value of church revitalization, disaster-relief service, and ministry among congregations from different cultural backgrounds.
Interests
Missions, church revitalization, disaster relief, prayer, and memorizing Scripture.
Connections
Morie married Sharon Evans on December 20, 1980. They have six children, including Murry, Heather, Paige, and Melissa, as well as twins. Sharon has participated with him in church and missions work, and the family has been connected with Baptist ministry in Oklahoma and elsewhere.
Father:
Don E. Morie
Morie's father was a Baptist minister whose church service took the family through Tennessee and the Tulsa area.
Mother:
Helen Gwendolyn Insco Morie
She was a nurse who supported church ministries and was active in Christian service.
child:
Murry Morie
child:
Heather Morie
child:
Paige Morie
child:
Melissa Morie
Wife:
Sharon Evans
They married on December 20, 1980, and have worked together in Baptist ministry and missions.
References
Scott Morie ministers in Cimarron Association
Profiles Morie's work as director of missions for the Cimarron Baptist Association, including church revitalization, disaster relief, missions, and ministry among churches serving diverse communities.
2021
Missions in the USA
Documents Morie's seminary education, church-planting experience, Baptist missions outlook, and work with international communities and churches in Oklahoma.
