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Scott Wilson-Parsons

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Scott is a graduate of Duke Divinity School and holds The Royce and Jane Reynolds Certificate in Church Leadership.  Following seminary, he served for 11 years in the South Georgia Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church before returning to North Carolina in 1998.  Scott was appointed to Seaside in June of 2009.

As Co-Pastor of Seaside United Methodist, Scott focuses his ministry in the areas of worship, teaching, and administration.  He is a primary teacher of our Disciple Bible Studies and is the primary staff liason with the Board of Trustees, Finance, Country Fair and Communications Committees.

Scott is married to Rev. Mary Jane Wilson-Parsons, our other co-pastor.

Belonging: Being a Community in the Image of God
September 20, 2017 - News, Pastors' Blog - No Comments

In the very first chapter of Genesis, God turns his creative focus to human beings and says, “Let us make human beings in our image, according to our likeness.” Much has been made over God’s voice switching between both singular and plural here. To whom was God speaking? Christian understandings have connected the plural to

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What Is “Proper Matter” for the Bread in United Methodist Celebrations of Holy Communion?
July 13, 2017 - News, Pastors' Blog, Uncategorized - No Comments

  July 12, 2017 By Taylor Burton-Edwards Used by permission under GNU 1.2 License. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EucharistELCA.JPG On July 8, 2017, the Vatican issued a letter to all bishops in the Roman Catholic Church, worldwide, reminding them of their responsibilities under Canon Law to ensure that “proper matter” is being used for the Eucharist (the celebration of the Lord’s Supper) in

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(De-)Humanizing God
April 27, 2017 - Pastors' Blog - No Comments

In the months between Advent and Easter, one of the most common themes is that in Christ, God became one of us—human. That is the essential story of Christ’s birth in Bethlehem to a young woman named Mary. As we make our way through Epiphany, we are reminded that this human child, dependent and vulnerable,

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Have You Considered Rebooting?
December 26, 2016 - Pastors' Blog - No Comments

That’s a common question that I ask when someone comes to me with a computer problem. It seems silly, but anyone who has had much experience with computers has discovered the “miracle” of rebooting to fix a frustrating computer issue. The fact of the matter is that computers, like people, are incredibly complex. As complexity

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