My name is Scott Prast. I have been volunteering with the Wednesday Peace Team for the Marian House food service shift since 2023. My volunteer journey started when I was a teenager. I spent my Sundays volunteering after church, serving lunch to those in need. I was also active in the Boy Scouts, lending a hand through various community service projects.
After my teenage years, I went to college and took a job as chief mechanic for the world’s largest airship company, The Lightship Group. I worked on blimps across the U.S. and Europe, maintaining aircraft for clients like Monster.com, Saturn, Sanyo, MetLife, and more. That chapter of my life was full of unforgettable moments—I was atop the World Trade Center just one day before the towers fell. I was at the Daytona 500 when Dale Earnhardt tragically lost his life. Overseas, I was even featured on the front page of the London Times lifestyle section in a piece about foreigners on the move. For six years, I lived out of hotels, crisscrossing the globe. It was a whirlwind, and I loved every moment.
When I was ready for my next chapter, I enlisted in the U.S. Army. I served in war zones and, in 2009, happened to be at the gym just two blocks away when the Fort Hood shooting took place. After that, I took one of the best drives of my life—the Alaska Highway—and moved to Alaska. From there, I was deployed to Pakistan, where I was stationed just 75 miles from where Osama bin Laden was living—three months before President Obama launched the raid that ultimately captured him.
Cold weather eventually wore thin, so I headed to Hawaii, where I was fortunate to land some amazing assignments. That led me to Indonesia, Japan, and South Korea. After years of travel and service, I returned to Colorado, medically retired, married my wife Jenna, and welcomed our son into the world.
God has shown me more than I could ever express in words. I’m deeply grateful to be an American—to live in a country where we can worship freely. That kind of freedom is rare, and I’ve never taken it for granted.
The need for help in our communities is greater than most people realize. That’s why I volunteer as often as I can. Eventually, my path led me to the Marian House—just a few blocks from where I first started volunteering all those years ago. Life really has come full circle.
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