Tower of Refuge Church of God

Pastor

Scott Kazee - Senior Pastor

Pastor Scott Kazee, is a 1988 graduate of Vinton County High School, located in beautiful

McArthur, Ohio. He worked as a foundryman at Osco Industires, in Jackson Ohio, from September 1989 to 2006. In May of 2006, The Lord made it possible for Pastor Scott to embark on a full time ministry at the Tower of Refuge Church of God. Pastor Scott gave his life to Jesus Christ as a child at the Frebis Avenue Church of God in Columbus Ohio, under the ministry of Pastor Robert E. Owens. As a teen, Pastor Scott felt the call of the Lord on his life. In October 1992, Pastor Scott responded to the call of the Lord and began hispreaching ministry under the leadership of Pastor Randall J. Barr.

From 1992 until 1998, He and his beautiful wife Julie Williams Kazee, traveled with his sisters in a Country/Gospel group called "Remnant". For six years they sang and preached the gospel of Jesus Christ. Their ministry would lead them throughout Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Virginia. Pastor Scott now brings to the ministry over seventeen years of preaching and music experience.

In 1998, Scott and Julie sensed that their ministry was about to change. Impressed by the Holy Spirit, they felt a burden to plant a church in their hometown of McArthur, Ohio. The first service was held in the McArthur Community Building on September 12, 1999, with eight in attendence. In eight years of ministry, the church has grown to an average attendance of one hundred ten in the Sunday Worship service.

In the summer of 2001, God gave Pastor Scott a fresh vision for the McArthur Church of God. While sleeping one night Pastor Scott had a dream. He describes the dream as follows: "I was standing on top of a mid-evil period cobblestone tower overlooking a very large green field. The night was very dark and stormy, thunder and lightning filled the air. When the lightning flashed, I could see very ominous, thick black clouds billowing ovehead. I was gripped by a sense of foreboding, because of the storm that I seemed to be in the middle of. A flash of lightning revealed a woman running from the distant woodline, torward the tower on which I stood. Her hair was stringy; her clothes tattered and torn. I quickly noticed her feet were bare, but yet she ran with a sense of urgency, as though she was running for her life. As she approached the bottom of tower, I leaned forward as far as I could to see her. The women beat on the door and frantically cried out LET ME IN! LET ME IN! Her voice broke with fear. The door opened and she disappeared into the tower.

I awoke to hear the voice of the Holy Spirit saying to me, 'This is the house that I am building in McArthur! A 'Tower of Refuge' for the lost, the hurting, the wounded and afraid.' " Our name is now "The Tower of Refuge Church of God."

Pastor Scott would love for the people of McArthur, and surrounding communities, to come experience the safety from the storm at the Tower of Refuge Church of God.

Psalms 46:1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in a time of trouble.

Tower of Refuge Church of God