The Reverend Dr. Robert Charles Scott is a native of Monticello, MS and a resident of St. Louis, MO. He is married to Pier Charisse Scott and they are the parents of Charis Jordyn Scott. He serves as the senior pastor of Central Baptist Church, one of the fastest growing churches and the second oldest African American Baptist church in St. Louis, MO with nearly 2000 disciples. He has led Central Baptist Church through $2.5 million dollar renovation of its worship and educational facilities. He preached his initial sermon at the age of 11; licensed at the age of 12; and ordained at the age of 18 at the Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church (Monticello, MS). He is the son of Mrs. Dorothy Newsome (formerly Scott) and Mr. Robert Funches.

Dr. Scott is a 1986 honor graduate of Monticello High School. He attended Jackson State University in Jackson, MS where he served his peers as president of the Student Government Association. In May 1991, he graduated with honors from JSU with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science/Pre-law. He pursued his seminary education at Duke University Divinity School, Durham, NC and graduated in 1994 with a Master of Divinity. He earned his doctoral degree (at the age of 29) from United Theological Seminary (Dayton, OH) in December 1997 under the mentorship of the Reverend Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker. He did his doctoral dissertation on The Dialectical Method of Preaching as Pastoral Care in the African American Church and graduated with high distinction and was the youngest person in his group.

Although he accepted the calling to preach at an early age, Dr. Scott contends that his acceptance preserved him until he got older and gained a better understanding of himself and the ministry. During this transition, he was greatly influenced by the late Reverend Dr. Samuel DeWitt Proctor, his professor and advisor at Duke; and the Reverend Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker, his mentor at United.

The Reverend Dr. Robert C. Scott serves as District Representative for the Eighth District of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. (April 2010-present). He received the International Omega Man of the Year Award (International Conclave, Raleigh, NC July 2010). Dr. Scott was inducted into the Morehouse College Board of Preachers (April 2006) and was selected in the inaugural edition of the top twenty young preachers under 40 to watch by The African American Pulpit—Summer 2001 (an international preaching journal with emphasis on Black preaching). He has mentored doctoral students at United Theological Seminary (Dayton, OH) with Dr. Charles E. Booth and Dr. Jesse T. Williams. He was a keynote speaker for the National Urban League meeting (Summer 2007). He was the featured young preacher for the J. H. Jackson/Caesar Clark preaching forum for the National Baptist Convention, USA Inc. (September 2003, Kansas City, MO). He was one of the key organizers of A Call to Oneness, which organized over 30,000 African American men to march against violence and crime in St. Louis, MO (June 1, 2008). He is also a General Board member of American Baptist Churches, USA (March 2009-present) where he sits on the Finance Committee.

He served the Eighth District of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity as its First Vice District Representative (May 2008-April 2010). He is a graduate of the Summer Leadership Institute at Harvard University Divinity School (June 2004). He preached at the 10^th Annual Samuel D. Proctor Institute (July 2004) sponsored by the Children Defense Fund. He has been selected as Who’s Who in Black St. Louis (2005, First Edition) and Who’s Who Among Executives and Professional (2005). He has a sermon published in Sound the Trumpet Again: Sermons for Empowering African American Men entitled “A Voice, A Vision, and An Adventure.” He is a lifetime member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.; a silver lifetime member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); a lifetime member of Jackson State University Alumni Association; and a lifetime member of Duke University Alumni Association. He served on the national faculty for the National Baptist Congress of Christian Education (NBC-USA, Inc.) where he taught Theology of the Old Testament; Member of Board of Directors for Eden Theological Seminary (2001-present); board member for Gateway “I Have a Dream” Foundation (2000-2005) which provides life enhancing opportunities and computer skills to inner city youth (housed at Central Baptist); board member for Doorways (organization that provides affordable secure housing for people living with HIV/AIDS); Co-Chair for the United Negro College Fund, St. Louis region (Church Division) 2008-present; Commissioner of Human Rights for State of Missouri (2001-2007); secretary for Baptist Ministers Union of St. Louis and Vicinity (January 2001-December 2005); secretary of the host committee for St. Louis—National Baptist Congress of Christian Education 2007.

He is a member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity (Upsilon Omega chapter, St. Louis MO—Spring 2002) where he serves as chaplain for the Upsilon Omega chapter (2002-present); district chaplain for the Eighth District of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity (2005-2008); Omega Man of the Year-Upsilon Omega Chapter (2008); Omega Man of the Year-Eighth District (2009); Omega Citizen of the Year-Upsilon Omega Chapter (2003); Omega Citizen of the Year-Eighth District (2004); graduate of CORO Leadership group for religious leaders in St. Louis (May 2003); member of Monticello Lodge #348 (Prince Hall Affiliation); Collin’s Consistory where he is a 32-degree mason; Convocation Speaker for Founder’s Day at Jackson State University (October 2001); Convocation Speaker for Gibbs-Green Memorial at Jackson State University (March 2003); Religious Emphasis Week Speaker at Rust College, Holly Springs, MS (Spring 1997); NAACP Community Action award (November 2000); guest lecturer and preacher for various associational meetings, seminaries, conferences and revivals across the country. He has published a sermon in the African American Pulpit Journal entitled “At the King’s Table” (Summer 2001) that he preached at the National Baptist Convention, USA Incorporated in September 2000. He has preached in Ghana, Africa (Summer 2001) when his church took children from the KILALO Rites of Passage Program of Central Baptist Church.

Dr. Scott was an associate minister at Orange Grove Baptist Church. He has served as pastor of Zion Temple United Church of Christ (Durham, NC) and Union Baptist Church (Lexington, NC). It is his desire to be a vessel of God and declare to a broken humanity that God the potter wants to put us back together again.