First Church, Geneva, new pastor

Ed Scott is the new bivocational pastor of First Church, Geneva. He previously served as interim pastor at the church. He also serves as the chair of the graduate division, director of institutional effectiveness and institutional research and professor of Christian studies at The Baptist College of Florida in Graceville. He holds an associate’s degree from Pensacola Junior College (now Pensacola State College) in Florida; a bachelor’s degree from Baptist Bible College in Springfield, Missouri; and a master’s degree and doctorate from New Orleans Seminary. He and his wife, Lea, have two children.