Rev. Dr. Scott Masters has been serving the region since his appointment to the Chesterfield, New Hampshire, community and Southwestern New Hampshire in 2007 by the New England Conference of the United Methodist Church.  In 2021, Scott was named as the Coordinating Pastor of the ministry team at West Rindge UMC in West Rindge, New Hampshire.  Additionally, he serves as the Executive Director of the Monadnock Center for Mission & Ministry in Keene. NH.

After receiving an undergraduate degree in Accounting/Public Finance from Franklin Pierce University and entering the corporate finance world, he began post-graduate work.  Over the next twenty years, those studies brought him to Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, KY, the Appalachian LP School at Union College in Barbourville, Kentucky, Wesley Seminary in Washington, DC, and  Duke Divinity at Duke University in North Carolina (2020).   During the summer of 2022, Scott completed his Doctorate in Public Theology via the prototype New Theology School focusing on community curation in an age of hate, extremism, trauma, and social divide.    His thesis led to the publication of his first book, “Deconstructing Q; Community, Reconnection, & Grace in the Shadow of the QAnon Heresy.”  Continuing forward, He is active in research, design of models for Trauma/Narrative informed communities, Pastoral Counseling and Spiritual Direction, and mentorship.  He is also working on a postgraduate level to develop a framework for a practitioner’s model of an Integral Christian approach to spiritual care and contemplative spirituality based upon the philosophical and theological work of Ken Wilber, Paul Smith, and Integral Theory from a Pastoral and faith-based perspective.

He currently or has served as the New England United Methodist Chairperson of Global Missions, NH District Committee on Ordained Ministry, member of the NH Lay Servant Ministry Team responsible for training and equipping of Laity, board member of Fit4Faith (a ministry of physical fitness), and has trained and is working with multiple ecumenical groups related to opioid addiction, recovery, and community response.  Additionally, he is proud to be a member of the Monadnock Interfaith Project and serves on several local community groups, including the Monadnock Assembly on Trauma and Transformation (a CHIP program intended to guide the region into becoming a Trauma-informed community https://healthymonadnockalliance.org/our-work/behavioral-health/ )

In February 2023, he was named the Executive Director of the Monadnock Center for Mission & Ministry based out of Keene, New Hampshire.   This non-denominational, 501c(3) non-profit center’s mission is to engage ecumenically with individuals, churches, and faith-based communities to foster a healthy spirituality rooted in the training, resourcing, and developing methods and opportunities for trauma-informed mission and ministry, spiritual direction, and formation.   As part of his long-term work, he has become one of the founders of the Caritas 3i Model of Spiritual Direction, Formation, and Mentorship.   This ministry can be found on Facebook and can be reached via monadnockministry@gmail.com

In addition to his work in the church,  Scott is a strong advocate of the bi-vocational model of ministry (Clergy maintaining employment beyond the church) and has worked for close to thirty years in Business Forecasting, Finance, and Planning for a Global manufacturer.   He lives in Keene, NH, and is married to Stacey, and together they have two girls; Annie (a local educator on Violence Prevention) and Sophie (A Painting and Art History Student at Maine College of Art).  A new Malshi puppy named Eloise completes his clan. Besides the church, Scott loves storytelling, is a passionate sports fan, a die-hard movie buff, and spends a great deal of time weightlifting and running on the backroads of Keene and Chesterfield.