About
Our creator designed us to co-create a culture that looks like outposts of Eden, spaces and places marked by beauty, goodness, and truth, markings of a God-soaked world.
We recognize that major shifts in the 21st century have created opportunities to expand our imagination for mutually shaped resource deployment of talent and capital that produces flourishing in a world longing to be made right from oppression, exploitation, violence, and polarization.
Scatter nurtures a starting point that centers the local leader around the world. We democratize access to talent and capital through convening spaces shaped by principles of mutuality and a shared vision of all of life. All of life living includes our work, as endowed by God, commissioned as works of art to bring beauty, goodness, and truth to the world.
We do this by convening trust-based relationships. Through convening, we connect talent and capital by curating and creating vehicles and tools for resource sharing. We draw exiles, dissidents, meaning-seekers, creationaries, builders, and disruptors who share a prophetic imagination for a way of living and being in the world.
Team
Andrew Scott
Co-Founder, CEO
As a leader and speaker, Andrew has been leaning into paradigm shifting conversations for years. First as president of a large non-profit and now as CEO of our team here at Scatter. He is relentless in his pursuit of God's answers to big questions. He is the biggest champion of Scatter's "All of Life" message, empowering every Jesus-follower to see their life and work as valuable to God.
Jonathan Thiessen
Co-Founder, Chief Venture Officer
Jonathan's curiosity around the challenging places in the world has taken him to 75 countries, including living and working in the former Soviet Union for the best part of 14 years. During this time, he served in various communities, exploring how faith and good work might be better integrated to solve local challenges and create jobs for the disenfranchised. By encountering the role of redemptive entrepreneurship in cross-boundary contexts, Jonathan has recently co-founded several startups from pre-seed to early stage. He continues to be passionate about how a more deeply integrated practice of life, formed by the way of Jesus better shapes us to love our neighbor well.
Dana Tucker
Chief Development Officer & Chief Finance Officer
Journeying with us since 2021, Dana is someone who asks the right questions and has the courage to pursue the answers regardless of the cost. She is an accomplished entrepreneur deeply devoted to her faith in Jesus. Throughout the past two decades, she has launched, ran and sold a flourishing live entertainment production company, provided expert consultation to the live entertainment industry, excelled in leading event fundraising teams and building fundraising strategies, and most recently successfully led her previous organization from early-stage to mission success as Executive Director. She brings critical skills to the leadership team that will allow us to go further faster.
Matt Benson
Chief Operating Officer
As former executive in higher education and a large non-profit, Matt's commitment to God's plan for the world has made him a trusted partner in the development of Scatter. His expansive view of the Kingdom of God and rich theological background bring depth and grounding to our team. Matt's ability to ask creative and challenging questions helps us thrive at Scatter.
Alyssa Valentine
Marketing & Communications Lead
With degrees in both Theology and Marketing, Alyssa's talent, passion, and joy of life was spotted immediately by our team. Since joining our team in 2022, Alyssa has been the driving voice of our messaging and content at Scatter. From our social media to our website, she has become a master at articulating our message and guarding against any word or story that weakens the power of the ‘all of life’ message in Scatter.
David Schmidgall
Chief Partnerships and Formation Officer
David loves shaping multi-lingual, multi-cultural, spiritually integrated spaces and people - through roles as executive director, pastor, spiritual director, trauma therapist, teacher, and artist. David earned his Masters in International Policy and is completing his residency in Psychotherapy. As an artist trained in Spiritual Direction, he's passionate about going deep as much as thinking wide about cultural transformation, solving intractable problems, and cultivating environments of human flourishing.
Annie Merritt
Logistics Coordinator
Annie brings a lively and energetic spirit to our team. With a background in theatre, she brings a contagious joy to even the most serious meetings. If you need a pick-me-up, Annie is always ready to send a picture of her dog Bodie to brighten the mood. Overseeing Scatter's day-to-day operations, Annie's ability to multitask, organize thoughts, and maintain order in busyness makes her an invaluable member of our team.
Backstory
“Filipino maids have done more for the spread of the gospel in the Arabian Peninsula than all the traditional missionaries combined.” These words, spoken by a leader who fits the latter group stopped Andrew in his tracks. It broke his paradigm and launched the quest to understand, ‘what else have I gotten wrong about who God includes in His work in the world and what that looks like. His journey of curiosity and exploration began shaping vision for what would become Scatter. He wrote a bestselling book and began imagining what kind of shifts were needed in our thinking and practice. In 2015 Jonathan joined with him to further shape the vision and direction.
Since 2016, Scatter Global launched a number of new initiatives:
Scatter (the book) - Published in 2016, it is now in 4 languages and has sold over 40,000 copies.
Scatter Global- an online platform designed for those who were interested in living this out overseas. Over 10,000 signed up and offered resumes.
Talent Co - a for-profit recruiting company sourcing jobs for those willing to go work around the world. A few hundred have been placed and the company’s annual revenue is close to $1 million.
Impact Investing - Recognizing that how we mobilize people is only part of the picture that needs to be reframed, we began investigating alternatives to charity and philanthropy. Heron Ventures was formed focused on raising growth-stage capital for faith-driven businesses in frontier markets.
In 2024, Scatter was formed bringing together a broader team from mission agency, church, education and business backgrounds to imagine fresh thinking and practices for participating in what God is doing in the world.