April 1, 2025 • 25 mins
Dawn Beam welcomes Elder Scottie Tyrone for a heartfelt conversation about building hope through faith, community service, and crossing racial divides in Mississippi. Their profound discussion explores how genuine connections and spiritual transformation can bring healing to individuals and communities facing significant challenges.
• Lincoln Park church serves as a "hospital" where people can come as they are for healing and hope
• Miraculous testimonies of cancer patients experiencing unexpected recovery through prayer and faith
• Scottie's powerful ministry to Dawn's family during her mother's end-of-life celebration (the tambourines came out!)
• Breaking racial barriers by focusing on spiritual connections rather than physical differences
• Using musical gifts through "Tasteful Tuesday" and "Thankful Thursday" to encourage others
• The Zamar Awards program honoring unrecognized musicians who faithfully serve their communities
• Lincoln Park's expansion vision for community outreach, including a shelter, feeding program, and youth center
• Addressing Mississippi's challenges, where one in four children live in poverty
• The importance of both asking for help when needed and extending help to others
If you have gifts, get involved in meeting the needs of your community. If you are hurting, know there's a body of Christ around you in Mississippi available to help.
Relevant Scripture: James 4:2
You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet, but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God.
Contact:
(601)-336-2056
scottietyroneministries@gmail.com
https://sites.google.com/view/scottietyroneministries/home
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
When you need some hope and inspiration to build
collaboration.
Hope Mississippi is yoursalvation.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
One in four kids live in poverty.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
One in five are food deprived.
Build collaborations and buildhope with those who are
struggling.
Build collaborations and buildhope with those who are
struggling.
Hope Mississippi.
Hello everyone, this is DawnBeam, back with you with Hope
(00:42):
Mississippi, and I have aspecial friend today.
That is my guest, scotty Tyrone.
Welcome, scotty Tyrone.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Thank you.
Thank you for having me, MsDawn Beam.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Well now, Scotty, I consider you like a brother,
Absolutely.
I really do.
But now you are a minister, isthat right?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
So it's Reverend Scotty Tyrone.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Reverend Elder.
I wear so many hats.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Well you do.
God has gifted you with so manythings.
You were just in my officetoday in my law office and we
were taking care of the churchthat you serve at.
Just great things going on atLincoln Park.
Tell us a little bit about that.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Well, lincoln Park is a ministry about love.
It's about deliverance, it'sabout meeting people where they
are.
It serves really as a hospital.
You can come just as you areand we want to meet you where
you are so we can help you.
Because you know, the Biblesays come as you are, are, so he
can be the one to help you.
And so we want to be that.
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We try to set that example, tohelp people where they are.
So it's a beautiful place to be.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
We're talking about hope today and our hope in Jesus
.
When you come to church, youreceive that hope.
Tell us how you've seen it inyour church.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
The transformation has been.
So my new word for God isincredible.
It's just everything that hedoes is absolutely incredible.
You know we say amazing, butit's just incredible to see his
work and to see how he's createdthings to be and how
strategically he plans thingsand how we don't understand it
(02:25):
sometimes and the people thathave come through there, how
they've been hurt whether it'schurch hurt, whether it's from
their family or tragedy and tosee them come and to see how
he's reconciled families backtogether and the hope that has
been given when people thoughtthat there was no more hope for
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them, that life was over per seand they were just existing, and
to see him restore them back tohim, back to the kingdom, and
how he uses his people to helpother people, that is just.
I think that's the mostgreatest thing and to see that
is just amazing.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Well, I've enjoyed visiting y'all's church from
time to time and I have feltthat healing power.
I have felt that God is thereand working, and so we want to
encourage folks, find yourpeople, find your church home,
because that's where real hopeis.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Just recently we've had stage four cancer diagnosis
where they thought it was justterminal, just kind of the end.
We've seen God turn thosesituations around, where one guy
because we prayed for him andwe believe in the power of
prayer, and he went back and hesaid they said what?
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You're not even a candidate forchemotherapy?
And God has just restored himback and it's been amazing.
And that's just been one ofthem.
And there was another one thatwas diagnosed with lung cancer.
She sings so now you wouldnever know that she had lung
cancer.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Wow, you know, I don't know why God heals some
and he doesn't heal others, andwhen I think of you, I will
never, never forget the blessingyou were to my family when my
mother had cancer and was onhospice and we knew that the day
was any day she would not bewith us.
(04:29):
I have a family full ofpreachers, but when you're
hurting, you need someone elseto minister.
I've told a jillion peopleabout your coming and
ministering to my family, butwould you tell us, from your
perspective, what yourexperience was with mom and with
our family?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Now, that was amazing to witness your mom and how
ready she was to go home, to bewith the Lord, and that was a
blessing for me to be a part ofher going home and to go in
there and to be able to ministerto your family and to bring
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comfort to them.
It was such a joy for me to beto see something that I hadn't
seen.
I have not seen that before,and to be a part of that was
just so.
I cried on my way home that Iwas, I was so honored to be
asked to be a part of.
That was just so.
I cried on my way home that Iwas so honored to be asked to be
a part of that time, becausethat's a special time, you know
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and to see your mom lifting herhands as we're singing Soon and
Very Soon.
We're going to see the KingBeulah Land you know all of her
favorite songs and then to bringthe tambourines out.
And it was a service.
It was a homegrown service ofcelebration that, hey, this is
why we live.
We live to live again, and soit was great.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
You know you can talk about heaven all your life, but
when you are confronted withthat, when you know you're going
, the testimony that she gave toso many was just unbelievable
that night when you came.
My family lives in Brandon, soyou and I live in Summerall.
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We drove up there, you broughtyour piano in.
You've got the wonderful giftof music playing the piano as
well as singing and if you closeyour eyes you get a swore.
It was Andre Crouch.
With that, soon and very soon,my mother and daddy have five
kids.
I've lost count of grandchildrenand great-grandchildren, but I
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know it's at least 17 grandkids,and we just added another
grandchild this week.
But we had every family.
If they were not there, somewere even overseas, they were on
Zoom, and so mother hadeverybody in front of her.
We were all singing all overthe country and yet we were one
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in spirit and I thank you forbeing that blessing and I hope
that folks can get that ideathat when your time comes,
heaven is the ultimate hope thatwe have, and so we want to
rejoice in that.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Yes, and what a way to go, though, to know where
they're going.
What a way to go.
That's a great way to celebrateas we're leaving.
She was so excited.
She was, she was so excitedabout going home.
Now, that was hope for me.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I totally agree.
Well, scotty, you know myfamily, but I want to hear a
little bit about your family.
Folks, this is a audio and nota video podcast, and so folks
may not realize it, but I'mwhite and you're black, and so I
think in today's world, when wetalk about hope in Mississippi,
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one key component is that wereach across all of the lines
that divide us and share hope.
So can you just tell a littlebit about your family, about
your experience growing up andhow God has worked in your life?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Sure, I think I've been real fortunate with my
family.
Well, my father was a pastor,but he was a pastor out of state
.
My mother raised us here inMississippi, but she didn't
teach racism.
She taught us to become who weare and that we could be
whatever we wanted to be.
And I remember before she died,the night that she died, she
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said you can be whatever youwant to be.
Do not ever be a victim becauseof skin color or anything else.
God has called you who he'swanted you to be.
Use that and stand on his word.
We never talked, we didn't dealwith race.
She always made us know who Godis in our life and I think that
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has helped me.
So when people call people namesand stuff, I'm not bothered by
that and, yes, I've been callednames.
Whatever names, it doesn'tbother me because I'm so secure
in who I am as a child of Godand as a man.
So you answer to what who youare, not what people call you.
(09:23):
And I think once we get to knowwho we are, whether you're
black or white, I think that'sgoing to help our nation as a
whole, because God lives on theinside of us and if I look at
the God in me and the God in you, then I don't see color, I see
spirit and our spirits meet andall I need to do is meet your
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spirit and you meet my spiritand then we become one in spirit
.
And if we can do that, we cancome together and accomplish
anything.
So growing up I had a lot ofwhite friends.
I had a lot of white families.
So I was so fortunate to havesome good people and I still am
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to this day in my life.
So I don't do the color thing.
It's just not who I am.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
I love it.
I love it.
You know I call you brother andthe reality is I do see you
like that.
I call you brother and thereality is I do see you like
that.
We're brothers and sisters inChrist and God has used you to
encourage me in dark times.
Just tell me a little bit aboutyour ministry of encouragement,
how you pray for people.
You've sent me prayers onMessenger or Facebook.
(10:38):
Just talk about how God hasused you in that area.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Well, I have a Tasteful Tuesday and the
scripture is O taste and seethat the Lord is good, blessed
is the man that trusteth in him.
And so when God woke me up onenight and he said I need you to
do Tasteful Tuesday, and that issending out either a song or
scripture to go with that, justto encourage people individually
.
And so in doing that, he sayswho to do it to, who to send it
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to.
So in prayer he shows me people, so I'm a seer in the spirit,
and so he shows me things thatyou may be hurting, you might
just need to be encouraged orwhatever the case may be.
And so I send it to thosepeople and then I do a thankful
Thursday on Facebook, and that'sjust for everybody, just
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encouraging people.
Let's just be reminded to bethankful just for who God is in
our lives, not for what he'sdone, not for what I have, just
strictly for who he is.
And so the gifts that he'sgiven me, for who he is, and so
the gifts that he's given me isnot for me, but it's for the
kingdom, and it's not for blacks, it's not for whites, it's for
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the kingdom, and so we have tobe real careful with the gifts
that he's given us, becausewe'll put ourselves in a box and
we'll limit ourselves to justmy group of people or the people
at church.
When it's not just for thosepeople, it's for whomever.
But if we're not in rightrelationship with him and hear
his voice clear, we won't knowand I'll miss the mark on who
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I'm supposed to help.
And so I'm real careful aboutlistening to his voice and who
he says send it to.
So I just had a friend who losta husband last week.
It's somebody that I went toschool with and she's white, and
throughout that entire journeyGod just kept having me send
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things to her and I didn'trealize how bad it was until she
texted me back and said this isso on time.
And so I understood then and soI had to continue.
So I'm always about helping,encourage somebody.
If we can just give that hope,just one word can change
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somebody's life.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
When you're going through the valley and I've been
through the valley a few timesyou don't forget folks like you
that God sent to encourage you,and I thank the Lord for you and
for the encouragement you havebeen to me and I pray that I can
be that same encourager.
I love the Bible verse that Godcomforts us so that we can yet
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be comforters and I can testifyGod is faithful.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
He provides all that we need and then we can then be
used to comfort othersAbsolutely, and I think he takes
us through those valleys tostrengthen us, to make us become
closer to him, to draw us notto him as he draws close to us
and to realize that he's thevine with the branches and to
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produce fruit from that.
And so that is so exciting, toknow that he chooses to use me.
Sometimes it doesn't feel thatgood, but it's going to be for
my good at the end of the dayand so I'm good with it.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Okay, one gift that you have that I absolutely love
is your ability to play thatpiano and sing.
How did you come to do that?
Speaker 2 (14:08):
It's a gift really.
I started playing when I wasfour years old.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Really.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Yes, I had an older brother who's 14 years older
than I am.
He was playing, and then I juststarted playing the piano he
was playing, and then I juststarted playing the piano.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Well, man, you have a gift, so what is your favorite
music to play?
I know you've got some award.
Tell me a little bit about theawards thing and then we'll talk
about your favorite music.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
So I have the Zamar Awards ministry that I do every
year now and that is Z.
Zamar is the gift of music,sharing the gift, and it's part
of the seven praises.
You've got Zamar, torah, yadah,several others, but it is Zamar
is musical, and so what we dois there are different people
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that God shows us and wecelebrate them.
We celebrate the works thatthey've done and that they're
doing in the kingdom, here inMississippi, and so what we're
trying to do is just show andappreciate all of the people
that are working for the kingdom, whether it's local or whether
they've gone international.
We want to honor them andthat's what we've been doing the
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last couple of years.
And when I tell you it has beenamazing, it's absolutely
amazing.
So just to see the smile on folkfaces.
So the first year there wereseveral older people that just
in the community that wecelebrated and we honored, and
they don't have a CD or anything, but they've just done music in
their church all their livesJust never being honored, cd or
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anything, but they've just donemusic in their church, all their
lives, just never being honored.
But we honored them with thataward.
And just to see their smile andthey were like 89 and 86, it's
something that they can remember, that, hey, my life was not in
vain.
Somebody remembered me.
They gave me my flowers while Iwas alive and I could see it.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
We serve, in part because we want to serve God
right, but it is good to be ableto recognize when folks have
made the world a better placebecause of their service.
So I think that is so wonderfuland it's got to be an
incredible, inspiring thing toattend that gathering.
Now, music in general you justamaze me, but what's your
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favorite music to sing?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Well, I'm a worshiper .
I love hymns because I grew upon hymns, but I really love the
contemporary.
Just the worship time, theintimate music that is just me
and God.
So a lot of times when I'm athome I get on the piano and I
just start playing and he givesme a melody and I just think of
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his goodness in my life and howhe loves me in spite of me,
because I live with me.
So, and to know that he stillblesses me and continuously, and
I just can't help but singpraises back to him, and so I
love to get in his presence sothat the worship time with him
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is so incredible for me.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
You do a great job of leading your church family in
that same type of worshipexperience we talked earlier
about.
Clearly, the Holy Spirit is inyour church and that praise is
part of welcoming that spirit in, isn't?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
it, it is, it is.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
When we think about music, there's healing in music
as well, would you not agree?
Speaker 2 (17:39):
I do.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
You mentioned the hymns.
What are your favorite hymns?
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Well, amazing Grace is one of them.
And then he Looked Beyond.
My Fault is another one.
What a Friend we have in Jesus.
That's one of my them.
And then he Looked Beyond.
My Fault is another one.
What a Friend we have in Jesus.
That's one of my favorites.
So it's just several.
My mother loved hymns, so shewould make me sing all the hymns
growing up.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
I bet she did, and don't you know, she's singing
hymns in heaven today, yes, yes.
I know my mother is too.
When we have hope in our heart.
To me, god puts a melody inyour mind and in your heart.
I oftentimes wake up at nightand in my mind playing how Great
Thou Art or hymns, and they'rejust reaffirming of that
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relationship and thatconversation that we have with
God.
God wants to be praised right,he does.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
He inhabits the praise of his people.
That's what his word says.
He enjoys it when we come tohim.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Let's talk a little bit more about Lincoln Park.
Y'all are talking about doingan activity center there.
Tell us about the dream alittle bit of the history,
because we're fixing tocelebrate 12 years, Is that
right?
Speaker 2 (18:49):
12 years.
Yes, it started off when we gotthe building or went back into
the building.
It was God blessed us and wewere able to pay the building
off, and then we were able toget a youth center, a double
wide trailer, and so we'reactually we've grown out of that
, to be honest, which is a goodproblem, and he's blessed us
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with some land and just gotanother house behind the trailer
, and so we're just trying tomake room for ministry, and so
now the activity center is aboutthat's our next goal.
That is to have several thingsa shelter, feeding program so we
can feed on Wednesdays.
We used to feed in the community.
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We just don't have enough roomin the kitchen.
We have a little small kitchenright now, and so that is the
goal to start back feeding andhave a food bank that we can
help people who need food Again.
Have a shelter and then a placefor our kids.
An after-school program justwant to make sure that they're
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educated and then give themsomething to do, making sure we
help them develop their dreamsand goals and aspirations out of
life, but from a spiritualstandpoint as well.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Absolutely.
You know our children are ourgreatest resource.
I'm reminded of the statisticsOne in four of our kids in
Mississippi lives in poverty.
One in five is food deprived.
So when we're talking to folksout there and acknowledging the
challenge, what is your messageto them about how they can bring
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hope throughout Mississippi?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
I think that we probably should acknowledge
where we are and then not beafraid to ask for help.
Do an assessment and again findout where help is and don't be
afraid.
I think we walk in pride, so tospeak, and I don't want to say
it's pride.
Maybe it's a little ignorance,because we don't want anybody to
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know that we're suffering.
But the Bible says you have notbecause you ask not, and we
need to ask and that's onlywe're going to help each other.
I don't know if there's a need,unless you tell me, but now we
got to be approachable so peoplecan come to us, and I think, as
the body of Christ, we got tomake sure that we extend that
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love and that hope, that, hey,you can come talk to Scotty,
he's reachable, he's touchable.
We can't be so holier than thouthat they feel afraid to come
talk to us.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Absolutely.
There are folks that have needs.
We all have needs at some pointin our lives, and so we need
the humility to say I have aneed and let your brother serve
you in that manner.
But also we have people outthere that have gifts.
It may not be the gift ofsinging the good Lord I can hum,
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but that's about it.
But he gives all of us gifts,and I'm reminded that we can
accomplish so much more when wework together whether that be
the body of Christ in a specificchurch or the body of Christ
being the pine belt area that aswe work together, we can be
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God's hands and feet.
God says that when we've doneit unto the least of these,
we're doing it to him.
So let's talk to those folksout there that may be thinking
what could I do?
Speaker 2 (22:29):
You don't necessarily have to be in the four walls of
the church.
We call it evangelism.
Let's get out of the four wallsand get out in the highways and
the byways and compel all men,as the Bible would say.
Let's get out there and meetthe needs of the people.
Everybody is not going to comein the walls, but can we bring
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the church to them Because I'mthe church?
Can I bring who I serve tothose people and serve them
where they are?
Speaker 1 (22:59):
And that's how Jesus did it.
He gave us the example of howwe were to share Christ.
First you meet their physicalneed and then you meet their
spiritual need, and that's wheretrue hope and peace come from.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
A friend of mine said if you call and tell me you
need your light bill paid, youdon't need me to pray for you.
You need your light bill paid.
Well, you need help.
You don't need me to say, okay,well, I'll pray for you.
No, your light, your babe, well, you need help.
You don't even say okay, well,I'll pray for you.
No, I need you to help me, andI think if we start helping
people, listening and help thepeople where they are, then
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we'll be a better people.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
I totally agree with you.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Because at some point we may have been not in that
particular situation, but we'vebeen in a place where we needed
help and I think if we rememberback when we were at some point,
then we should have enoughgrace to help somebody else.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
You know and it's not just that, I'm reminded a judge
one time told me your greatestjoy will come in serving others.
That is so true.
You know, the Bible talks aboutthe joy of giving, and so
you're missing out twofold One,you're not using the gift God
gave you, but two, you'remissing out on the blessing of
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giving.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
And I think the Psalm says serve the Lord with
gladness, Serving with gladness.
How do I do that?
I serve his people.
If I serve them, I'm servinghim.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
So if you're listening today, when we're glad
you joined us, our hope is foryou to take away from this
conversation anotherconversation with God to say how
can I be a blessing?
If you have gifts, get involvedin meeting those needs and if
you are hurting, know that thereis a body of Christ all around
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you in Mississippi that isavailable to meet those needs.
Thanks so much for joining me,scotty.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Thanks to our audience for sharing this time.
When you need some hope and inspiration to build
collaboration.
Hope Mississippi is yoursalvation.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
One in four kids live in poverty.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
One in five are food deprived.
Build collaborations and buildhope with those who are
struggling.
Build collaborations and buildhope with those who are
struggling.
Hope Mississippi.
Hello everyone, this is DawnBeam, back with you with Hope
(00:42):
Mississippi, and I have aspecial friend today.
That is my guest, scotty Tyrone.
Welcome, scotty Tyrone.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Thank you.
Thank you for having me, MsDawn Beam.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Well now, Scotty, I consider you like a brother,
Absolutely.
I really do.
But now you are a minister, isthat right?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
So it's Reverend Scotty Tyrone.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Reverend Elder.
I wear so many hats.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Well you do.
God has gifted you with so manythings.
You were just in my officetoday in my law office and we
were taking care of the churchthat you serve at.
Just great things going on atLincoln Park.
Tell us a little bit about that.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Well, lincoln Park is a ministry about love.
It's about deliverance, it'sabout meeting people where they
are.
It serves really as a hospital.
You can come just as you areand we want to meet you where
you are so we can help you.
Because you know, the Biblesays come as you are, are, so he
can be the one to help you.
And so we want to be that.
(01:46):
We try to set that example, tohelp people where they are.
So it's a beautiful place to be.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
We're talking about hope today and our hope in Jesus
.
When you come to church, youreceive that hope.
Tell us how you've seen it inyour church.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
The transformation has been.
So my new word for God isincredible.
It's just everything that hedoes is absolutely incredible.
You know we say amazing, butit's just incredible to see his
work and to see how he's createdthings to be and how
strategically he plans thingsand how we don't understand it
(02:25):
sometimes and the people thathave come through there, how
they've been hurt whether it'schurch hurt, whether it's from
their family or tragedy and tosee them come and to see how
he's reconciled families backtogether and the hope that has
been given when people thoughtthat there was no more hope for
(02:47):
them, that life was over per seand they were just existing, and
to see him restore them back tohim, back to the kingdom, and
how he uses his people to helpother people, that is just.
I think that's the mostgreatest thing and to see that
is just amazing.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Well, I've enjoyed visiting y'all's church from
time to time and I have feltthat healing power.
I have felt that God is thereand working, and so we want to
encourage folks, find yourpeople, find your church home,
because that's where real hopeis.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Just recently we've had stage four cancer diagnosis
where they thought it was justterminal, just kind of the end.
We've seen God turn thosesituations around, where one guy
because we prayed for him andwe believe in the power of
prayer, and he went back and hesaid they said what?
(03:47):
You're not even a candidate forchemotherapy?
And God has just restored himback and it's been amazing.
And that's just been one ofthem.
And there was another one thatwas diagnosed with lung cancer.
She sings so now you wouldnever know that she had lung
cancer.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Wow, you know, I don't know why God heals some
and he doesn't heal others, andwhen I think of you, I will
never, never forget the blessingyou were to my family when my
mother had cancer and was onhospice and we knew that the day
was any day she would not bewith us.
(04:29):
I have a family full ofpreachers, but when you're
hurting, you need someone elseto minister.
I've told a jillion peopleabout your coming and
ministering to my family, butwould you tell us, from your
perspective, what yourexperience was with mom and with
our family?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Now, that was amazing to witness your mom and how
ready she was to go home, to bewith the Lord, and that was a
blessing for me to be a part ofher going home and to go in
there and to be able to ministerto your family and to bring
(05:11):
comfort to them.
It was such a joy for me to beto see something that I hadn't
seen.
I have not seen that before,and to be a part of that was
just so.
I cried on my way home that Iwas, I was so honored to be
asked to be a part of.
That was just so.
I cried on my way home that Iwas so honored to be asked to be
a part of that time, becausethat's a special time, you know
(05:31):
and to see your mom lifting herhands as we're singing Soon and
Very Soon.
We're going to see the KingBeulah Land you know all of her
favorite songs and then to bringthe tambourines out.
And it was a service.
It was a homegrown service ofcelebration that, hey, this is
why we live.
We live to live again, and soit was great.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
You know you can talk about heaven all your life, but
when you are confronted withthat, when you know you're going
, the testimony that she gave toso many was just unbelievable
that night when you came.
My family lives in Brandon, soyou and I live in Summerall.
(06:15):
We drove up there, you broughtyour piano in.
You've got the wonderful giftof music playing the piano as
well as singing and if you closeyour eyes you get a swore.
It was Andre Crouch.
With that, soon and very soon,my mother and daddy have five
kids.
I've lost count of grandchildrenand great-grandchildren, but I
(06:37):
know it's at least 17 grandkids,and we just added another
grandchild this week.
But we had every family.
If they were not there, somewere even overseas, they were on
Zoom, and so mother hadeverybody in front of her.
We were all singing all overthe country and yet we were one
(07:01):
in spirit and I thank you forbeing that blessing and I hope
that folks can get that ideathat when your time comes,
heaven is the ultimate hope thatwe have, and so we want to
rejoice in that.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Yes, and what a way to go, though, to know where
they're going.
What a way to go.
That's a great way to celebrateas we're leaving.
She was so excited.
She was, she was so excitedabout going home.
Now, that was hope for me.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I totally agree.
Well, scotty, you know myfamily, but I want to hear a
little bit about your family.
Folks, this is a audio and nota video podcast, and so folks
may not realize it, but I'mwhite and you're black, and so I
think in today's world, when wetalk about hope in Mississippi,
(07:58):
one key component is that wereach across all of the lines
that divide us and share hope.
So can you just tell a littlebit about your family, about
your experience growing up andhow God has worked in your life?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Sure, I think I've been real fortunate with my
family.
Well, my father was a pastor,but he was a pastor out of state
.
My mother raised us here inMississippi, but she didn't
teach racism.
She taught us to become who weare and that we could be
whatever we wanted to be.
And I remember before she died,the night that she died, she
(08:37):
said you can be whatever youwant to be.
Do not ever be a victim becauseof skin color or anything else.
God has called you who he'swanted you to be.
Use that and stand on his word.
We never talked, we didn't dealwith race.
She always made us know who Godis in our life and I think that
(09:01):
has helped me.
So when people call people namesand stuff, I'm not bothered by
that and, yes, I've been callednames.
Whatever names, it doesn'tbother me because I'm so secure
in who I am as a child of Godand as a man.
So you answer to what who youare, not what people call you.
(09:23):
And I think once we get to knowwho we are, whether you're
black or white, I think that'sgoing to help our nation as a
whole, because God lives on theinside of us and if I look at
the God in me and the God in you, then I don't see color, I see
spirit and our spirits meet andall I need to do is meet your
(09:46):
spirit and you meet my spiritand then we become one in spirit
.
And if we can do that, we cancome together and accomplish
anything.
So growing up I had a lot ofwhite friends.
I had a lot of white families.
So I was so fortunate to havesome good people and I still am
(10:06):
to this day in my life.
So I don't do the color thing.
It's just not who I am.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
I love it.
I love it.
You know I call you brother andthe reality is I do see you
like that.
I call you brother and thereality is I do see you like
that.
We're brothers and sisters inChrist and God has used you to
encourage me in dark times.
Just tell me a little bit aboutyour ministry of encouragement,
how you pray for people.
You've sent me prayers onMessenger or Facebook.
(10:38):
Just talk about how God hasused you in that area.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Well, I have a Tasteful Tuesday and the
scripture is O taste and seethat the Lord is good, blessed
is the man that trusteth in him.
And so when God woke me up onenight and he said I need you to
do Tasteful Tuesday, and that issending out either a song or
scripture to go with that, justto encourage people individually
.
And so in doing that, he sayswho to do it to, who to send it
(11:06):
to.
So in prayer he shows me people, so I'm a seer in the spirit,
and so he shows me things thatyou may be hurting, you might
just need to be encouraged orwhatever the case may be.
And so I send it to thosepeople and then I do a thankful
Thursday on Facebook, and that'sjust for everybody, just
(11:27):
encouraging people.
Let's just be reminded to bethankful just for who God is in
our lives, not for what he'sdone, not for what I have, just
strictly for who he is.
And so the gifts that he'sgiven me, for who he is, and so
the gifts that he's given me isnot for me, but it's for the
kingdom, and it's not for blacks, it's not for whites, it's for
(11:51):
the kingdom, and so we have tobe real careful with the gifts
that he's given us, becausewe'll put ourselves in a box and
we'll limit ourselves to justmy group of people or the people
at church.
When it's not just for thosepeople, it's for whomever.
But if we're not in rightrelationship with him and hear
his voice clear, we won't knowand I'll miss the mark on who
(12:13):
I'm supposed to help.
And so I'm real careful aboutlistening to his voice and who
he says send it to.
So I just had a friend who losta husband last week.
It's somebody that I went toschool with and she's white, and
throughout that entire journeyGod just kept having me send
(12:34):
things to her and I didn'trealize how bad it was until she
texted me back and said this isso on time.
And so I understood then and soI had to continue.
So I'm always about helping,encourage somebody.
If we can just give that hope,just one word can change
(12:54):
somebody's life.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
When you're going through the valley and I've been
through the valley a few timesyou don't forget folks like you
that God sent to encourage you,and I thank the Lord for you and
for the encouragement you havebeen to me and I pray that I can
be that same encourager.
I love the Bible verse that Godcomforts us so that we can yet
(13:18):
be comforters and I can testifyGod is faithful.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
He provides all that we need and then we can then be
used to comfort othersAbsolutely, and I think he takes
us through those valleys tostrengthen us, to make us become
closer to him, to draw us notto him as he draws close to us
and to realize that he's thevine with the branches and to
(13:44):
produce fruit from that.
And so that is so exciting, toknow that he chooses to use me.
Sometimes it doesn't feel thatgood, but it's going to be for
my good at the end of the dayand so I'm good with it.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Okay, one gift that you have that I absolutely love
is your ability to play thatpiano and sing.
How did you come to do that?
Speaker 2 (14:08):
It's a gift really.
I started playing when I wasfour years old.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Really.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Yes, I had an older brother who's 14 years older
than I am.
He was playing, and then I juststarted playing the piano he
was playing, and then I juststarted playing the piano.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Well, man, you have a gift, so what is your favorite
music to play?
I know you've got some award.
Tell me a little bit about theawards thing and then we'll talk
about your favorite music.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
So I have the Zamar Awards ministry that I do every
year now and that is Z.
Zamar is the gift of music,sharing the gift, and it's part
of the seven praises.
You've got Zamar, torah, yadah,several others, but it is Zamar
is musical, and so what we dois there are different people
(14:57):
that God shows us and wecelebrate them.
We celebrate the works thatthey've done and that they're
doing in the kingdom, here inMississippi, and so what we're
trying to do is just show andappreciate all of the people
that are working for the kingdom, whether it's local or whether
they've gone international.
We want to honor them andthat's what we've been doing the
(15:18):
last couple of years.
And when I tell you it has beenamazing, it's absolutely
amazing.
So just to see the smile on folkfaces.
So the first year there wereseveral older people that just
in the community that wecelebrated and we honored, and
they don't have a CD or anything, but they've just done music in
their church all their livesJust never being honored, cd or
(15:40):
anything, but they've just donemusic in their church, all their
lives, just never being honored.
But we honored them with thataward.
And just to see their smile andthey were like 89 and 86, it's
something that they can remember, that, hey, my life was not in
vain.
Somebody remembered me.
They gave me my flowers while Iwas alive and I could see it.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
We serve, in part because we want to serve God
right, but it is good to be ableto recognize when folks have
made the world a better placebecause of their service.
So I think that is so wonderfuland it's got to be an
incredible, inspiring thing toattend that gathering.
Now, music in general you justamaze me, but what's your
(16:28):
favorite music to sing?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Well, I'm a worshiper .
I love hymns because I grew upon hymns, but I really love the
contemporary.
Just the worship time, theintimate music that is just me
and God.
So a lot of times when I'm athome I get on the piano and I
just start playing and he givesme a melody and I just think of
(16:51):
his goodness in my life and howhe loves me in spite of me,
because I live with me.
So, and to know that he stillblesses me and continuously, and
I just can't help but singpraises back to him, and so I
love to get in his presence sothat the worship time with him
(17:12):
is so incredible for me.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
You do a great job of leading your church family in
that same type of worshipexperience we talked earlier
about.
Clearly, the Holy Spirit is inyour church and that praise is
part of welcoming that spirit in, isn't?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
it, it is, it is.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
When we think about music, there's healing in music
as well, would you not agree?
Speaker 2 (17:39):
I do.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
You mentioned the hymns.
What are your favorite hymns?
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Well, amazing Grace is one of them.
And then he Looked Beyond.
My Fault is another one.
What a Friend we have in Jesus.
That's one of my them.
And then he Looked Beyond.
My Fault is another one.
What a Friend we have in Jesus.
That's one of my favorites.
So it's just several.
My mother loved hymns, so shewould make me sing all the hymns
growing up.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
I bet she did, and don't you know, she's singing
hymns in heaven today, yes, yes.
I know my mother is too.
When we have hope in our heart.
To me, god puts a melody inyour mind and in your heart.
I oftentimes wake up at nightand in my mind playing how Great
Thou Art or hymns, and they'rejust reaffirming of that
(18:26):
relationship and thatconversation that we have with
God.
God wants to be praised right,he does.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
He inhabits the praise of his people.
That's what his word says.
He enjoys it when we come tohim.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Let's talk a little bit more about Lincoln Park.
Y'all are talking about doingan activity center there.
Tell us about the dream alittle bit of the history,
because we're fixing tocelebrate 12 years, Is that
right?
Speaker 2 (18:49):
12 years.
Yes, it started off when we gotthe building or went back into
the building.
It was God blessed us and wewere able to pay the building
off, and then we were able toget a youth center, a double
wide trailer, and so we'reactually we've grown out of that
, to be honest, which is a goodproblem, and he's blessed us
(19:10):
with some land and just gotanother house behind the trailer
, and so we're just trying tomake room for ministry, and so
now the activity center is aboutthat's our next goal.
That is to have several thingsa shelter, feeding program so we
can feed on Wednesdays.
We used to feed in the community.
(19:32):
We just don't have enough roomin the kitchen.
We have a little small kitchenright now, and so that is the
goal to start back feeding andhave a food bank that we can
help people who need food Again.
Have a shelter and then a placefor our kids.
An after-school program justwant to make sure that they're
(19:54):
educated and then give themsomething to do, making sure we
help them develop their dreamsand goals and aspirations out of
life, but from a spiritualstandpoint as well.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Absolutely.
You know our children are ourgreatest resource.
I'm reminded of the statisticsOne in four of our kids in
Mississippi lives in poverty.
One in five is food deprived.
So when we're talking to folksout there and acknowledging the
challenge, what is your messageto them about how they can bring
(20:31):
hope throughout Mississippi?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
I think that we probably should acknowledge
where we are and then not beafraid to ask for help.
Do an assessment and again findout where help is and don't be
afraid.
I think we walk in pride, so tospeak, and I don't want to say
it's pride.
Maybe it's a little ignorance,because we don't want anybody to
(20:57):
know that we're suffering.
But the Bible says you have notbecause you ask not, and we
need to ask and that's onlywe're going to help each other.
I don't know if there's a need,unless you tell me, but now we
got to be approachable so peoplecan come to us, and I think, as
the body of Christ, we got tomake sure that we extend that
(21:18):
love and that hope, that, hey,you can come talk to Scotty,
he's reachable, he's touchable.
We can't be so holier than thouthat they feel afraid to come
talk to us.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Absolutely.
There are folks that have needs.
We all have needs at some pointin our lives, and so we need
the humility to say I have aneed and let your brother serve
you in that manner.
But also we have people outthere that have gifts.
It may not be the gift ofsinging the good Lord I can hum,
(21:51):
but that's about it.
But he gives all of us gifts,and I'm reminded that we can
accomplish so much more when wework together whether that be
the body of Christ in a specificchurch or the body of Christ
being the pine belt area that aswe work together, we can be
(22:14):
God's hands and feet.
God says that when we've doneit unto the least of these,
we're doing it to him.
So let's talk to those folksout there that may be thinking
what could I do?
Speaker 2 (22:29):
You don't necessarily have to be in the four walls of
the church.
We call it evangelism.
Let's get out of the four wallsand get out in the highways and
the byways and compel all men,as the Bible would say.
Let's get out there and meetthe needs of the people.
Everybody is not going to comein the walls, but can we bring
(22:50):
the church to them Because I'mthe church?
Can I bring who I serve tothose people and serve them
where they are?
Speaker 1 (22:59):
And that's how Jesus did it.
He gave us the example of howwe were to share Christ.
First you meet their physicalneed and then you meet their
spiritual need, and that's wheretrue hope and peace come from.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
A friend of mine said if you call and tell me you
need your light bill paid, youdon't need me to pray for you.
You need your light bill paid.
Well, you need help.
You don't need me to say, okay,well, I'll pray for you.
No, your light, your babe, well, you need help.
You don't even say okay, well,I'll pray for you.
No, I need you to help me, andI think if we start helping
people, listening and help thepeople where they are, then
(23:42):
we'll be a better people.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
I totally agree with you.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Because at some point we may have been not in that
particular situation, but we'vebeen in a place where we needed
help and I think if we rememberback when we were at some point,
then we should have enoughgrace to help somebody else.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
You know and it's not just that, I'm reminded a judge
one time told me your greatestjoy will come in serving others.
That is so true.
You know, the Bible talks aboutthe joy of giving, and so
you're missing out twofold One,you're not using the gift God
gave you, but two, you'remissing out on the blessing of
(24:23):
giving.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
And I think the Psalm says serve the Lord with
gladness, Serving with gladness.
How do I do that?
I serve his people.
If I serve them, I'm servinghim.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
So if you're listening today, when we're glad
you joined us, our hope is foryou to take away from this
conversation anotherconversation with God to say how
can I be a blessing?
If you have gifts, get involvedin meeting those needs and if
you are hurting, know that thereis a body of Christ all around
(24:57):
you in Mississippi that isavailable to meet those needs.
Thanks so much for joining me,scotty.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Thanks to our audience for sharing this time.
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