Pastor Scott Harris was ordained in 1974. He spent his student internship at Bethany Lutheran Church, Englewood, Colorado. His first parish was Redeemer Lutheran Church, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he was Assistant Pastor from 1974 to 1976. Interim Pastor of Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Huntington, New York in 1988, he was Pastor of Dr. Martin Luther Church in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin from 1989 until his arrival at St. John’s Lutheran Church in July 1999.

The Rev. Harris was Instructor at the Andhra Christian Theological College in Hyderabad, India from 1978 to 1983. He taught at Carthage College, Kenosha, Wisconsin in 1991 and was Adjunct Professor of Old Testament Studies at The Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago, Illinois from 1994 to 1996. Most recently Pastor Harris was Visiting Professor of Old Testament at L’Ecole Biblique et Archeologique Francaise de Jerusalem in Israel from October 1998 to January 1999 while on sabbatical from Dr. Martin Luther Church.

Pastor Harris holds the B.A. degree in History and Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the M.Div. degree in History and Theology from the Yale Divinity School, New Haven, Connecticut. He also holds the M.A. in Hebrew and Semitic Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the M.A. and Ph.D. from the Union Theological Seminary in New York, New York.