The Scattered Seeds Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Boldness, Boldness Always Boldness! This quote, originally spoken by Fredrick the Great of Prussia exemplifies the life of today’s guest. Scott Borderud is a former Army Chaplain, Pastor and Marine with decades of military and pastoral experience under his belt. He has also been diagnosed with an incurable form of cancer, but so far Scott hasn’t let that stop him in either perform...

Send us Fan Mail It’s all too rare in this era of instantaneous gratification and advancing onward to greater prestige and bigger paychecks to find someone willing to stay in the place that God has called them. So few, even in the pastoral world, are willing to wait for God to move them from one post in his Kingdom to the next, or are willing to accept that a single call to a single congregation c...

Send us Fan Mail If you had a successful career as a musician for the ballet and opera, would you walk away from it to work in youth ministry? What if you knew God had placed a call on your life for ministry? Would you walk away then? Well today’s guest, Joe Williams did just that. Joe was a professional Trombonist who played for the Pittsburgh Opera and Ballet, but when it became clear that God h...

Send us Fan Mail But what if one kid comes to the Lord? That was the question that Patrick Myers and the rest of the staff and board of Camp Ligonier kept coming back to. They were facing the difficult decision of whether or not they should open in the summer during Covid 19. They had been given the go ahead by the state and CDC and after much deliberation they decided that if even one child would...

Send us Fan Mail As a ministry of Jesus Christ, Light of Life Rescue Mission will provide a home for the homeless and food for the hungry, and will build disciples for the Kingdom of God among the poor, addicted, abused and needy. That is the mission statement of the Light of Life Rescue Mission where today’s guest Jerrel Gilliam serves as Executive Director. Jerrel’s story is one of understanding...

Send us Fan Mail A college drop out, homeless, struggling with addiction and thoughts of suicide. That’s where today’s guest was when he came to a turning point in his life. David Ayers is a professor of Sociology at Grove City College where he served as interim dean of the college of arts and letters before his current sabbatical. He is an expert on Christian Marriage, dating and relationships an...

Send us Fan Mail We live in troubled times, large portions of our nation are divided along lines of economic status, racial identity and a myriad of other differences that seem to draw attention away from the ways we are the same. The world has no answers. We can’t look to the media, or secular leaders who seem to only exasperate the issues at hand. So where can we look? As today’s guest will tell...

Send us Fan Mail If the Lord called you away from a good career in the law into ministry, would you go? That’s a question that Chris Buda had to answer over 30 years ago. He was halfway to a partnership at a good law firm, with his wife expecting their second child when the Lord called him to work for YoungLife in the Pittsburgh Area. Join Tom and Nate as they interview Chris about what lead to th...

Send us Fan Mail The valley of the shadow of death, the fiery furnace, the night seasons, these are all things that many of the guests on our show have told us about in past episodes. And while the themes often repeat, the stories are always so very different. Today we ask the question: what is it like to go from enjoying over 50 years of good health finding out that you have cancer during a routi...

Send us Fan Mail Our world has changed drastically in the past few months. What we considered business as usual, the regular way of doing thing, in so many cases no longer applies. And what do we need to navigate these new waters? We need innovation. Sometimes moving forward requires a step of faith, sometimes it requires a leap. Father Dave Pivonka the Franciscan Friars of the Province of the Mos...

Send us Fan Mail Pat Gillick once said “Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it’s about love, integrity, and respect.” And our guest today can speak about all aspects of the Game, and he also has a message off the diamond as well, a message of Love. Clint Hurdle has been on the field in some capacity for the better part of 40 years. He was a player, on the c...

Send us Fan Mail What does it take to go from loosing every game in a season to building a program that has had one of the best records in Grove City College’s History? If you ask Coach Andrew DiDonato, as we did, he would tell you that it would take Vision, Process and Love, Brick by brick. Andrew is the youngest head coach Grove City has ever had, and he had quite the uphill battle to face. His...

Send us Fan Mail “Will Get Back Here the Forge is on Fire!” That was the phone call that almost marked the end of a century old business. It’s also at the heart of the story we are about to share with you: it is a story of burning and rebuilding, of loss and recovery. And it’s the story of a prayer: Lord refine my life, make me holy. Welcome to this weeks episode, today’s Guest, Will Knecht of the...

Send us Fan Mail What is it like to go from the height of intimacy with the Lord, to the depths of despair and back again? What can such an experience teach us as we listen to this story? Welcome to part two of our interview with special guest Andrew Brunson. Last week Andrew spoke about the beginning of his relationship with the Lord, and about his calling to Turkey. He shared with us what his mi...

Send us Fan Mail Andrew Brunson is a name that was on the lips of millions from 2016 to 2018. He was locked in a Turkish prison for two years for crimes that were fabricated to create fear in the hearts of missionaries who dared to enter the largest un-evangelized nation in the world. His story sparked a prayer movement for the country of Turkey that was unprecedented and the repercussions of that...

Send us Fan Mail What does it take to work in intercultural missions? It’s a question that we sought to seek with our guest Carl Templin in our last episode, and its just as valid with our current guest. Scott Boyd spent a decade living and doing the Lords work in Slovenia with his family. From the first time he joined a mission trip Scott knew that that’s what he wanted to do with the rest of his...

Send us Fan Mail We are living in dark days where for many, hope seems lost. But being lost isn’t something we think about when times are good. It certainly wasn’t on our guests mind when he was set to graduate high school nearly 70 years ago. In fact, he thought his life was set. But through a timely word, Carl not only realized how lost he was, but he also found that there was a solution. And it...

Send us Fan Mail What does it take to go from living in Chaos to a life of peace? How can a someone from a dysfunctional family gain parents and siblings without even looking for them. And who can take every bit of heartache and craziness that made up that childhood and turn it into something redemptive? If your answer was the Lord, then you’re correct. Today’s guest was born into chaos, with an a...

Send us Fan Mail What is the number one determining factor of whether a child will continue in the faith when the move into adult hood or not? Who has more influence on your children’s thoughts and opinions, you or their peers? When is it too late to talk to your children about the hard topics like faith? When they’re teenagers? In there Twenties? Thirties? Or is there never a point when both pare...

Send us Fan Mail GSD is a rare condition that makes it impossible for the body to use stored sugars as fuel. Without round the clock monitoring those with this illness can quickly slip into comas and ultimately pass away within a few short hours. Families with this illness often sacrifice energy, relationships and rest to make sure that their loved ones are healthy and survive something as mundane...

Send us Fan Mail What does media have to do with worship? What does media ecology have to do with Solitude? And how does a professor in Greek end up an expert on how modern media has impacted the modern church? Dr. T. David Gordon is a professor of Greek and Media Ecology at grove city college. He is a published author and a scholar and perhaps most interestingly he is also an proponent for the be...

Send us Fan Mail Does beauty in music have the power to reach into the darkest corners of our society and bring hope, light and love to those who need it most. Our guest Eric Genuis has spent over twenty years using his music to prove that it does. Eric is a composer and performer who has done thousands of concerts for hope in prisons, homeless shelters, inner city schools, hospitals and anywhere...

Send us Fan Mail Homelessness. Hunger. Poverty. These are realities of the world we live in that we as Christians are commanded to face. Last episode we brought you a guest who is dealing with the lack of water in Uganda. This week we are closer to home, so to speak, with a pastor who is transforming the way we help those in need in the greater Pittsburgh Area. Adam Sewell of the Vintage Church in...

Send us Fan Mail What is it like to live in a world where it is normal to have to walk five miles for a clean source of water? Where water-born illnesses like Typhoid are still so common that the children can tell you about them. And is it possible to face those kinds of conditions on a daily basis, and still find joy in the Lord? Our guest today is Herbert Asiimwe a CPA from Uganda who is in char...

Send us Fan Mail How can a person still sing when tragedy strikes? How can God take immeasurable sorrow and give us a song in the night to comfort us when we need it most? And how can we relearn how to praise him when the unspeakable happens? “Where is God my Maker who gives songs in the night?”This verse and the concept behind it is at the heart of today’s story. Our guest, Elissa Winkler is the...