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Scruggs said that in a way, he feels that his life has<br />
come full circle. He is an active member of Southside<br />
Pleasant Hill, and when the church opened the new<br />
location on Pleasant Hill in Warner Robins, it chose<br />
a neighborhood that has had some tough times. The<br />
community needed encouragement. The church<br />
opened its gym on Friday nights for the neighborhood<br />
kids. It began offering tutoring on Tuesday evenings.<br />
On weekends during the summer, it started creating<br />
“blessing bags” to feed the children.<br />
“When I see this, I’m always thinking of how I was<br />
one of those kids in 1972!” Scruggs exclaimed. “As<br />
churches, we like to send kids on mission trips, and<br />
while that’s good and important, we can’t step over<br />
the missions that need to be done right here in our<br />
neighborhood to get to the ones in foreign lands.”<br />
Between his home life, his service at his church, and<br />
his work at CGTC, Scruggs believes that he is fulfilling<br />
his life’s purpose of loving God and serving others.<br />
At the age of 56, he and his wife, Kelly, will celebrate<br />
30 years of marriage in December. Together, they<br />
have two children. Their daughter, Sydney, works at<br />
Houston Healthcare and will be getting married in<br />
December. Their son, Jonathan, graduated from UGA<br />
and is now working on his masters in teaching.<br />
Scruggs has just finished his second of four<br />
aggressive chemo treatments and reported that he<br />
has had no adverse affects to date. He is being cared<br />
for by the doctors at John Hopkins in Baltimore and<br />
is scheduled for a surgical procedure in August.<br />
“We hope that will take care of the issue,” he said.<br />
“I’ve got to get my hair back for my daughter’s<br />
wedding,” Scruggs added with a laugh.<br />
Unable to imagine ever working anywhere else,<br />
Scruggs said that when he gets ready to retire in a<br />
few years, he plans to retire from CGTC.<br />
“I’m going to stay for as long as they let me,” he<br />
said. “There’s not another place in the world that I’d<br />
rather be serving than right here at Central Georgia<br />
Technical College and right here in middle Georgia.<br />
This is home for us. Until I cross the burning sands<br />
of time, this is where I’ll be.” <br />
July <strong>2021</strong><br />
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