W Scott SowersW. Scott Sowers grew up on a flue-cured tobacco farm in the North Carolina community of Arba. He earned degrees in religion and philosophy from Mount Olive College and Atlantic Christian College. He earned master's degrees in education and educationa technology from Abilene Christian University and Lamar University, respectively. Sowers pastored three Original Free Will Baptist churches, the last and longest of which was Marlboro Original Free Will Baptist Church in Farmville, North Carolina. Sowers also taught high school English, language arts, debate, communications, and technology in Kansas and Texas. Sowers is currently retired from teaching. He is married to Marilyn Sanchez Sowers and they are the parents of a blended family of five children and 16 grandchildren. They reside on the farm where Sowers was born. Read More Read Less