Daniel Scott

Background

About Daniel Scott

The Rev. Dr. Daniel D. Scott, BA, MCS, MDiv, DMin Dan is the minister at St John’s, Bradford West Gwillimbury, Ontario and a Professor at Tyndale University where he previously served as Vice-President and Academic Dean. In 1987, his adventurous spirit took him to China where he taught ESL to academics at Shanxi University then Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He joined the leadership team at the Shanghai International Fellowship. Upon returning to Canada in1989 after the Tienanmen crisis, he served on the pastoral staff at Knox, Spadina. While at Knox College in 1995, he became the ‘student minister’ at St. John’s, Bradford and hasn’t left! At St John’s, which celebrated its 200th anniversary, Dan led the construction of a brand-new church facility (2004), with plans for an sq ft addition underway. His leadership has been instrumental in connecting the church to the wider community, including through special-needs summer camps, a twinning project between local schools and First Nations schools, a founder of the Bradford Ministerial, as a hockey and soccer coach and by integrating local community groups into the life of the church. In 2018, The Elden of Bradford opened in partnership with St. John’s to create a $54-million, 152-unit retirement home in response to significant lack of housing options for seniors in BWG. The facility already has plans to expand with a new memory-care building. Dan has served as Moderator of the Presbytery of Oak Ridges, as Ecumenical Observer on behalf of the PCC to the EFC’s Council of Presidents, as the Presbyterian representative on the Bereavement Authority of Ontario’s Faith-based Advisory Committee and in various other committee roles including serving on the founding Stewards by Design team. At Tyndale University, Dan led the introduction of 8 Honours BA programmes, as well as the creation of a BEd programme certified by the Ontario College of Teachers. He was instrumental in developing new partnerships and assisted in the securing of a new facility. Under his tenure as Dean, Tyndale was ranked #1 for student satisfaction in the university issue of Maclean’s magazine. He also served as Managing Director of Save the Mothers, a maternal health NGO offering a Master of Public Health Leadership degree at Uganda Christian University. He led the incorporation of the organization with charitable status in Canada, East Africa, and the US. He participated in the founding of the Canadian Network for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and secured funding for projects to improve African hospitals.