Q&A With Koloff- #265

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So much fun for me to give you, the listener, a personal call and answer whatever questions you have on your heart. And with me today, all the way from up in the great state of Maine, that's right, I think about as far north and northeast as you can get, Scott Krimman, welcome to Q and A with Koloff. Thank you. Thank you very much. And so, is that right?

I mean, I'm trying to remember my geography here. That is about as north as you can get, right up there in the state of Maine. That is, that is. You you would just we're right next to Canada. Right next to Canada.

Well, it's great to have you on the show. And I know we met just a while back there as I had the privilege of coming up to the great state of Maine. And we did a conference, a man-up conference. And of course, I stayed over and preached at the church there, Royal Ridge, right? Royal Ridge Church of God up there in Maine, right?

Yep. That's correct. And and so I and I know you I know you're traveling, you're you're headed to uh the the st of the state of Pennsylvania, right? Yep, going to visit some good friends of ours. Going to take an extended weekend and visit some friends.

And now, are you? Of course, you got your lovely bride Karen with you. Yeah.

So is Karen driving or riding shotgun? I'm just curious. She's riding shotgun right now, but we got a rest area coming up, and she's pointing. I have been there, done that. I know what that's like.

I know what that is like.

So I got to get the rest stops in.

So for sure.

Well, Scott, so give us. Give us a little backstory. You're up in the state of born and raised the state of Maine. Just give us a little quick backstory on your kind of younger, earlier years. All right, well, I grew up in the state of Maine.

of Brayton Westbrook means. um product of the the great state of Maine. Did a lot of Uh played a lot of sports when I was younger. Um did a lot of things like that. Um you know, played a lot of basketball.

A lot of softball. Anything I kind of keep busy. I am, as you know, I'm a product of a broken home. Dad left when I was about eight years old. Uh mom raised uh six kids by herself.

Um those were the days. Um, but uh, you know what we're kinda Saved me, if you would, was one of the things that we were fortunate: my aunt. My Aunt Vicki invited my mom to go to church at the South Portland Church of the Nazarene. And that's where I kind of Got involved with the youth group, started playing sports there. And of course, I met the love of my life, Karen.

We met in the youth group. And uh We still disagree with this. I say I was older, but she says I was 16 and she was 14. But and so I say I was older, but she doesn't say that. Gotcha, I gotcha.

Yeah, yeah.

So some stories we remember the same and some we don't. But anyway, you know, and so grew up and met her in youth group, and we got married at a young age, have three children. Those three children, two boys and a girl, all grown up now. Uh now I got uh now I got myself four grandchildren. And uh, you know, and so that's that's kind of where I'm at.

And that's kind of a quick snapshot of of who I am.

So, so that that's that's pretty amazing.

So, so youth groups. You guys go all the way back to to the youth group. That's that that's that's awesome. And uh, so how many years later? You've been married how many years later now?

We have been married 42, going on 43 years. Wow.

Well, congratulations on that. Today's world, that in itself is a milestone. And so congratulations on that too, Scott. Wow.

Yep. And so, hey, Scott, would you say, because I know this is the case for me, it may or may not be for you, but you know, you mentioned getting involved with all kinds of different sports and coming from a broken home. Was that kind of your outlet because you come from a bro, like sports for me coming from a broken home was my outlet, right? Football, weightlifting, et cetera. Would you say that was your case?

I would. You know, it gave me, you know, it was a couple of things. It kept me busy, which, you know, when you do come from that environment, you're going to get busy with something. And probably better that you're busy with sports than you are out on the street, so to speak. And so, yeah, it was my outlet.

I think it was also my way of. Making friends, you know, kind of being part of that team, feeling like I belonged.

Now that's awesome. Where out of the six kids, where'd you fall there? I am next to the youngest.

So we literally, all of us, are two years apart. Oh, wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So, you know, my youngest brother is 60. I'm 62. My other brother's 64. My sister's 66. Wow.

My other brother who died at a young age would have been 68. And my oldest sister is 70. We're exactly two years apart. That's amazing.

Well, at least it kind of helps make it easier to remember birthdays and stuff, right? A little bit. Yeah, well, my mom wouldn't have said that, but that's okay.

Well, four grants, four grants.

Now what and what c what keeps you you you what keeps you busy for work?

So I work for I'm a branch manager. I work for a pest control company.

Okay. I have three managers, couple sales reps, and I have 20 technicians that work for me out of that branch.

So, you know, based on the season, you know, the warmer it is, the more bugs there are in pest control. And as we're getting into the colder months up in Maine, it's slowing down a little bit, which is always a good thing because you go crazy through the summer.

So it's good to have a little bit of a break. But yeah. Yeah, that's what I do for work. I've always been in the service injur industry of some kind. Uh I've been uh you know a manager for uh you know uniforms, industrial uniforms.

I've been an area manager for glass and for propane, and now I'm doing it for. Pest control. That's amazing.

So, well, so let's shift gears a little bit.

So, I come up to Royal Ridge. number number of uh of months ago and of course, you know, we we meet and connect and and uh you know talk. Of course, I talk about man camp and and uh you know, you were, you know, pretty uh pretty um Well, pretty engaging in our conversations and pretty intentional and wanting to come. And by the way, I like brag on you guys just about every weekend, just so you know. You wouldn't know it.

Because I look at people, I go, we set a bunch of milestones in our fall 2025 camp. And they're looking at me and I'm like, one of those milestones, I go, we had three guys get in a car, drive 20 hours from the state of Maine to come to Mad Camp. People look at me like, dear to headlights. They're like, wow, that's incredible, right? But you and Robert and Russell all got in the car.

And great testimony because you said even prior to getting to camp, just spending that many hours in a car together and just, it really brought you guys closer together, right? It did. I quite honestly, we've thought about kind of like after the fact, boy, if we'd have flown in type of thing, it would have been a couple of hours in the air, so to speak. But we had we've always worked together at the church, but you we didn't know each other. You know, and honestly, going to the camp and not knowing what to really expect, we all have our expectations.

And we were kind of like, what are you expecting to get from God? What are you expecting to hear? What do you need? And so that 18 hours each way. In that vehicle, you know, I think it was it was it was unbelievably.

uh set up the stage for the week. And then was great to kind of talk about it on the way home as well. Yeah, I guess, you know, obviously we don't give a whole lot away. And what I mean by that is, for those out there listening, you know, it's not secret. Man camp's not secret, but I call it sacred.

And so to protect, you know, just the integrity of the camp itself, you know, we encourage men when they go back home. Just share your personal story of what God did while you were there at camp. Not so much, we, well, we did this and we did that, and this was fun, and that. But more important, here's what God did while I was at camp. And so share, Scott, a couple of highlights.

I know you actually called me, left me a voicemail, and beautiful testimony about you and your bride there and do doing refreshment, doing Bible study together, like reading the Bible together. Give us a couple of highlights, a couple takeaways of how camp impacted you personally. Yes.

So for me personally, I mean, it was an opportunity. I I kind of the way I in my head is that, you know, I went to man camp and for the experience, right? But But what I got out of it was an encounter from God. And so it was just, you know, from the times that I was able to spend. reading the word uninterrupted, didn't realize how much How much interruption I had in my life with electronics and things like that.

Um and just being able to get along with God. And have him speak things in my life that were. We're we're not just Essential, but they were like highly, they were like important. They were like, you know, that's that's what it was all about. And, and, uh, And he brought back time and time again, you know, about my My relationship and trusting in him, I was able to kind of get over that hurdle, you know, and put my trust completely in him.

And so when I got back home and And uh, you know, and here I am I think it's like three weeks later. And I'm still People talk about that mountaintop experience. I'm just not letting go. If it taught me anything was You know, I spend time now getting alone at night or in the morning is my time of getting together with God personally. But then now my wife and I are reading together.

at night and we're praying together. And, you know, it taught me to be the priest in my home, and I took that serious, and I'm glad I did. That's pretty amazing. Just making a couple of notes while you're talking here, because I want our listeners just to really grasp hold of what you're saying. A couple things I wrote: you know, you talked about complete trust, being able to completely trust him.

And, you know, weeks later, and I think you're going to find probably too, Scott, is months later, years later. Like, you know, we have guys that have been to camp six, seven, eight years ago. I have guys, as you as you met, staff go back as far as 2011 that they have journeyed with me. And one, coming to camp, but then coming back and volunteering and serving at camp, who are still walking it out. And so I wrote down ongoing, right?

And so I think what you're finding is not only the equipping, the encounter with God that you're referring to for our listeners, the tools we give you that you take back home, that can be. Can be ongoing, right? That's not something you just, you know, check a box and just say, well, I'll leave that there and not bring it home with you, right? Right, right. And I mean, you know, the it was it was apparent right from the beginning.

I think you probably said it several times and so did some of the other staff. But you're going to get out of it what you put into it. And I, from day one, from meeting you a year ago when you came up to the church. I had determined uh that I was going. to man camp.

I don't know why, but somehow in my spirit I knew I had to go. And so I had determined that. And then of course, As you know, the story, we had six or eight guys planning on going, and one by one, we had them dropping out right up until the last, you know, what, a week or so? Last year, or last few days, or whatever. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

But you know what? I really feel like God had a divine appointment for the three of us. because they're walking it out too. And we're You know, we're I don't I always never really like that word holding people accountable type of thing, yeah, but we are, you know, we are not in an accountable way where you're did you do something wrong today, or didn't you? We just we are now just checking in with each other every day.

and just making sure that, you know, it we're just We're staying on track. Yeah, where are you? We're encouraging to have you. Yeah.

How are you doing? Where are you at? You know, what's going on? Right? Kind of thing.

And. The other thing I wrote down too, which is pretty powerful too, is it sounds like camp helped you establish some new habits, you know, praying with your wife, doing some Bible study together, you spending your own little quiet time and that sort of thing too, which is pretty amazing too. And then I want to draw out these two points, and then we'll get to your questions here in just a couple minutes. Is you said a couple things, too, that I think is probably more common in church than we know. You made this thing.

We went to church together, but we didn't really know each other. And it provokes the question, how many churches or how many people probably feel that very same thing? Man, I go to church every Sunday or go to, you know, go to, but, but, man, I don't really take the time to get to know anybody or get to, you know, get to know people. Or, or the other things is just the interruptions in life, right? All the different interruptions that we can experience, right?

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, we, you know, we thought about, you know, so Rob and myself and Russ. We've all been in leadership in our church in one way, shape, or another. Know whether it's working on the board together or working at events or whatever. But I think what you said is that sometimes you can go to church and I I don't want to say it becomes a social club, but sometimes it can. You know what I mean?

And we don't just we're not digging deeper with God, but we're certainly not digging deeper with our brothers and sisters either. We're we're kind of just you know, showing up so that our attendance looks good, but um you know do did do we really did we did we encounter god that week You know, and did and did we learn anything new and love on somebody while we were there? Man, those are some great points, Scott. And I know you guys were determined. I know upon leaving camp, you were determined to go back home and even in church, not only in your own families, but even in the church, hopefully make an impact, right?

Yeah.

Yep. Yeah, we we uh we we immediately got back. We uh set an appointment with our pastor because we didn't want to procrastinate. That's kind of the worst thing you can do in anything, and especially You know, if the Holy Spirit's moving in you, you know, you want to just, you know, go with. what he's guiding you.

We literally, we got back, we set an appointment, we sat down with our pastor. He was thrilled with the idea that we wanted to, you know. re-energize or restart the men's group. We've already got our first meeting coming up on the 22nd of this month, our first breakfast, where we're going to introduce what we're doing. The three of us are like an old wrestling term.

We're tag teaming it. Love it. Love it. Come on. I love it.

That way, if one of us gets thrown off the ropes, we got another one to back us up. Hey, I need you to tag in, man. I'm exhausted. Give me the hot tag. Scott, we used to call it the hot tag.

You guys are on fire up there, which I think is amazing, Scott, because a lot of people look at the northeast like, yeah, I think God kind of left the northeast. But no, you guys are proof that God is still moving everywhere, including the state of Maine.

So that's pretty amazing.

So, Royal Ridge Church of God's in what city? What town? It's it's in Scotland, Maine. Scarborough, Maine.

So if you listen up, if you guys are ever up in that area, Scarborough, Maine, I'm telling you, go check out Royal Ridge Church of God and maybe meet Scott and Russell, Russell Bear, Robert Henry. These guys are amazing. They made the trek. They made the drive down all the way from the state of Maine to attend Man Camp in Georgia. And of course, go to koloff.net, coloff.net, and you can link to learn more about Man Camp if you're out there in listening land.

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So let me give you an opportunity to maybe to ask me a a question or two. If you are ready, we'll flip the script and let you fire away. All right.

So I won't pull a wrestling because I read your book.

So I.

Okay. That'd be okay. I read the whole book and everything, so pretty fascinating itself. But, you know, I guess my question was, you know, in any ministry, you have your high points and your low points. You know, you have times where you're just like incredibly enthusiastic and encouraged, and other times you feel like down the dumps or whatever.

You know, what was a time that you kind of like remember, like, you know, you were kind of questioning where you were in the ministry that you're in, and was it really what God wanted you to push through on? And how did he get you above that? And, you know, maybe how did that happen? Wow, really, really great question, which, by the way, you listen out there, the book's got the life story he's referring to, Nikita, Tale of the Ring of Redemption life story is what he's referring to. I just put it all out there, just share it both in audio and print form.

But, you know, I guess probably the most challenging part for me over the years, and I don't know that I would view it as. You know, as necessarily, you know, maybe let's just say low points in the ministry as much as just some of the challenges of ministry, which for me, like the travel, right? Like, I travel a lot, right? I go all over the place, you know, worldwide, been to 36 different countries. And most recently, you know, I've got a trip to Israel that I'm taking.

And quite honestly, you know, I don't know if it's 11, 12, 13, 14 hours of flying from New York to Tel Aviv. I'm not even sure, but I honestly am not looking forward to that flight. Right? I'm like, yeah, I mean, I know you guys drove me, you said 18 hours from Maine. I feel like that's about what I'm going to be on a plane.

So you guys can at least get out of the car, right? Go stop at a rest area like, you know, like you're doing. But so, so that's probably the, I'd say, the most, been the most challenging part of. Of the ministry for me has been the travel.

Now, don't get me wrong, it's not that I don't enjoy traveling, I do, but I guess the older I get, you know, maybe I say the harder it gets, right? Right. But outside of that, Scott, you know, looking at all the different opportunities God has provided me, you know, with I mean, a variety of things, whether it's a man camp or a men's conference or breakfast or dinner, preaching, you know, just the variety of things, I feel fortunate. Um that I have uh That I've had, the opportunities I've had. And then I'll last note on that: I'll say this: that it has been.

I would say It has been, I guess I've had to learn that the size of the crowd doesn't matter. Does that make sense? And I know, like, even when I came up there with you guys, I know Pastor would have loved to had 100 guys at the Man-Up, you know, the Man-Up conference or whatever. But, you know, whether it's. 100 or whether it's 10.

I've learned it. It doesn't matter.

Now, it can be discouraging if you just have a handful of guys versus a big crowd, certainly. But that's probably the other area that the Lord has really helped me learn. Don't worry about the numbers. Don't get discouraged by the numbers because you never know there could be the next Billy Graham in the crowd. Yeah.

Yeah, because I remember when I even went up to you in the camp and I felt bad. You know what I mean? You remember me mentioning that to you. At the conference. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

Yes.

Yeah.

I felt bad that, you know, we had had a certain number and then they dropped out. And then, you know, and then part of it is I felt bad for the guys that dropped out. You know, after I, after I started going through, I'm like, man, you guys missed out on something. They did, didn't they? Yep.

Yeah.

Yeah, they did. Yeah, they did. Well, we're bringing it back to them, so they don't have a choice now. Yeah, that's right. You're going to get them fired up, especially the ones that, you know, and it's not uncommon.

Let me just say this, too. It's not uncommon. I've said in other interviews, you know, I get lip servers all the time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm going to come to that camp. And then one by one, you know, I joke and say they fall off into the witness protection program, you know, like they go MIA.

And I'm like, where'd they go? They were so sure they were coming, you know.

So that was great.

Well, we got time for one. One more quick question if you have one. If you have one, I didn't really, I just want to kind of know what you're what you know, as far as the ministry, if you'd had a high and low point there, and and uh. But yeah, I I know for sure. Even Even like you said, you know, it was funny as I had determined even if I drove down myself, I was coming.

Yep. And it's funny as that Russ and Rob both made that same commitment. Wow.

And that's why I thought, you know what? They had both said, even if it did, no matter what, they were going to get down. And I didn't know that either, you know, until we actually did that drive. And we got looking at each other going, you're serious. You were determined.

And they were like, yeah, I was going no matter what. Wow.

So, so, so that was something that we just, you know, on the way down, again, another thing we could talk about. And I can tell you one funny thing that did happen to us while Rob was driving, though, real quick. He pulled off an exit. To go to a gas station. The gas station was on the left.

There was a gentleman's club on the right. And he went to pull, and I said, Hey, Rob, you're taking us to the wrong place, buddy. And he says, And he says, No, I'm going to preach. And I was like, Okay, let's do this. I'm going to go be a light in a dark place.

That's what 18 hours of driving will do for you. Oh, my gosh. That's funny. Hey, just so you know, I did not tell you this, but last note here before we wrap it up. It was kind of like, you know, I was not trying to press you, but getting guys, not only getting commitments, getting guys to actually take five minutes and go register, right?

And, you know, and we were communicating prior, you and I, and I'm like, hey, I got this name, I got that name. And you're like, wow, you know, we got, you know, six, eight, whatever. And I'm like, my. First clue that some of the guys weren't serious about it is when you couldn't even get them to register. Yeah, yeah.

And I didn't tell you, I never told you, but like, we never did have six guys register. Like, Four was the max, and then that fourth one, he kind of fell off right towards the end.

So, well, Scott Crimmon and his lovely bride, Karen, we are grateful to have your time this afternoon. I know you're going to have an incredible time there in Pennsylvania, and I just appreciate you being on QA with Koloff and sharing some of your stories, some of your man camp experience. All right.

Yeah, we definitely will. We're walking the journey now. Awesome. Walk it out. And so, and thank you, all of you so loyal and faithful every week just to tune in, QA with Cole Off.

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