Present
Dick and Cathy Scoggins moved to London in 1995 to work more closely with Frontiers International Headquarters. Dick is Head of Leadership Development in Frontiers. Dick and Cathy continue to learn about house church planting in Networks as they train church planters in the UK and throughout the Muslim world. Dick and Cathy have planted a house church in High Wycombe, England where they live as well as started an Fellowship of Church Planters affiliated team of British church planters, called the SAS team. The SAS team has started three networks of house churches in the UK. The SAS team is committed to planting reproducing house church networks in the UK and other parts of Europe. The team is also extending its work to South Africa as well as several European countries.

Background
Dick graduated from Wesleyan University in Connecticut in 1971 with a BA in Chemistry and began graduate work at Brown University in Rhode Island where he also was an assistant coach in football. Dick came to Christ in 1974 through one of the members of Quidnessett Baptist Church (QBC), who was also a coach at Brown. He married Cathy in 1975, and has two children, Nathan, born 1977 and Joanna, born 1979. Nathan graduated Wesleyan University in 1999 and is married to Katheryne. Joanna graduated Rhode Island College in 2002 and still lives in Rhode Island.

QBC had a vision for churches reproducing new churches and Dick and Cathy were part of the first group that went out from QBC to start the Cranston Christian Fellowship (CCF) in 1975. In 1980 he was ordained as one of the elders of CCF. In 1981 at the request of CCF, he quit his job teaching school in Cranston and began the Warwick Christian Fellowship.

In 1985 he joined with Jim Frost from CCF and started the Fellowship of Church planters, a team of church planters, which has grown and reproduced over the years. Dick and Jim planted the Lincoln Christian Fellowship in 1986. As they continued to experiment with different models of planting churches in resistant areas, they began to try different ideas with small churches that would meet in homes. Many of the ideas for this came from his visits to “Doc” who was sent out from CCF and WCF in 1983 to North Africa with Frontiers. Dick visited Doc yearly and they would talk about what a church would look like in the Arab world as well as how to plant them. Home type churches seemed the only model

In 1988 Dick teamed with Mike Buffi to start the East Providence Fellowship of House Churches that became a cluster of 3 cooperating house churches in 1989. Dick also began to teach on planting house churches at the annual Frontiers training event. From this came requests to travel to other teams in the field and coach them in church planting. In 1992 he joined with George Patterson and wrote Church Multiplication Guide. Dick has also written a manual on Planting House Churches in Networks as well as Building Effective Church Planting Teams. His Manual has been translated into several languages. He also wrote Transformational Ministry, a book on disciplining to transform in community.

Rhode Island and FCP became a training center for house church planters to various organizations during the 90’s and over 70 church planters have been trained there who are now serving overseas. Recently FCP have added a business training component for tentmakers to their internships as well as having teams there focusing on planting house churches amongst Muslim people groups.