Scott Holbrook

Mr. Scott Holbrook served with Avant Ministries as President and CEO from 2013 through 2022 and remains actively involved in the organization.   Prior to becoming President, he was the Chief Financial Officer beginning in 1981.   During that tenure he also served twice as Interim President.  Scott received a bachelor’s in economics in 1977 and a master’s in business administration (MBA) in 1981 from the State University of New York at Buffalo.  He is a certified public accountant in the state of Missouri and taught as an adjunct professor at a local community college for 34 years.   He served as chairman of the Missio Nexus Business Administration committee for 16 years and has served on several ministry boards including Missio Nexus.  Scott has also served on the ECFA standards committee.  He is a member of Fellowship Kansas City, a church plant of Lenexa Baptist Church.    He and his wife, Ruth, enjoyed 41 years of marriage, raised five children and have twentyone grandchildren.   Ruth went to be with the Lord in 2019.   He is now married to Alicia Kliewer Holbrook, an Avant MK from Panama who served as a long term missionary in Europe with Avant.