"I became a servant of this gospel by the gift of God's grace given me through the working of His power."  Ephesians 3:7

In 1977, The Division of Home Missions of the Assemblies of God endorsed Paul and Linda Scholtz as Chaplains to Professional Rodeo. Being blessed with the ability to translate the Good News of the Gospel of Jesus Christ into Cowboy, these veteran ministers have served in this force for over 25 years, along with their son P.R. (Paul Robert).

Being ranch and rodeo raised, the Scholtz family is thoroughly absorbed by the rodeo culture, and they themselves participated for many years in the difficult sport of professional rodeo, with it's 25,000 contestants and members, and upwards of 12 million spectators. Paul rode saddle broncs for over 23 years and Linda was a professional trick rider.

Preacher Paul is the first to admit that he wasn't always a religious man. As a youngster he learned at night to rodeo in pastures by painting horses with turpentine to make them buck. "You make a lot of bad habits and bad enemies doing that," he said. "I was a pretty rotten character. I had stolen slugs of stuff, and had a library of pretty bad books."

One evening he went to a revival as a favor to a friend who could win prizes for every guest he brought. "But while I was there I thought to myself, 'Who told that preacher about me?' I became a Christian that night. And I gave up any ideas of being a rodeo cowboy because it was, according to all you hear, a dark black sin".

Paul spent three years at college and a year in Vietnam before enrolling in Central Bible College in Springfield, Mo., in 1972-76. It was there at college that he met his wife, Linda, who was a ranchers daughter.