PASTOR

Pastor Scott Kidwell was saved at the age of six during a revival service at his home church in Tampa, Florida where well-known evangelist, Dr. Oliver B. Greene was preaching. After surrendering to the Lord’s call to preach the Gospel in 1979, he attended Tennessee Temple University, graduating in 1986 with a B.A. in Bible.
For six years (1996-2002), Pastor Kidwell pastored churches in Virginia and Mississippi. Shortly after surrendering to preach, the Lord placed a burden upon his heart for the need of churches in the Northeast corridor. In 2003 after much prayer and surveying the area, God lead Pastor Kidwell, along with his wife, Sherry and their two children, to the Damascus, Maryland area to establish Shining Light Baptist Church. He received his Doctor of Theology from Macedonia Baptist College in 2015.