Scott Skaggs

Contingent staff

My name is Scott Skaggs and I am married to my beautiful wife Olivia Skaggs. Both Olivia and I are from Bardstown, Kentucky and grew up together within the same school! As a child growing up in Bardstown, I had such a positive experience, my family loved me and provided for me, I played sports through all four seasons of the year, and all my life I knew that God was good and that He loved me. But this idea and “faith” I had was mainly built on what my parents said about Jesus and me thinking being a good person is what made God love me.

Olivia became a Christian at a very young age and grew up in church, however my faith did not become my own until I went to college at Eastern Kentucky University. We began dating in high school and continued to date into our college years before getting married. When I became a freshman in college I had a very normal college experience dipping my toes into what the world provided until it was put on hold due to the pandemic. When the pandemic struck it forced me to return home and become isolated from all the things that I loved. In this time, I began to face extreme anxiety and depression, never knowing if the world would return to its normal state. In this season of battling anxiety, I began to see my need for a savior. Yes, my parents loved me, my friends supported me, and Olivia cared for me. But nothing could take away these anxieties and sins that had been weighing so heavy on my heart.

Through the Lord’s faithfulness, Jesus used Olivia in this season to clearly communicate the gospel to me, even in the midst of her own suffering and trials. Through hearing the gospel from the people I loved the most, I finally developed a love for Jesus on my own and became a believer after recognizing that there is a way to an eternal relationship with God even though I wasn’t as good as I thought. Because of Jesus’ perfect life, death, and resurrection my sin had been paid for and in believing in Him I became free of all of my anxieties and depression.

I then returned to campus and began getting plugged into Campus Outreach. This ministry ended up changing the trajectory of my life as the campus staff began meeting with me and showing me what it meant to be a Christian and how being a Christian on a college campus looks like. Because of the impact the campus staff had on me not only as a person, but as a believer. I feel the Lord is calling me to do the same thing for other students on the campus who were just like me.