Rev. Terica Dion Scott
A Sacred Calling to Love, Serve, Heal & Cultivate Joy
As One Spirit is ever evolving, Sacred Refractions is transforming into Our Sacred Callings: Inspirational One Spirit Alumni Stories, guided by communications expert and Interfaith/Interspiritual minister, Rev. Terica Dion Scott, class of 2025. This month, to honor the launch of this new iteration of the Alumni Spotlight, we are grateful to feature Rev. Terica herself, a community leader devoted to excellence in communications, advocacy, and companioning.
Welcome to OUR SACRED CALLINGS: Inspirational One Spirit Alumni Stories.
Rev. Terica Dion Scott, MA, Class of 2025
is a communications executive currently serving as the Communications Director for the Office of Acquisition, Logistics, and Construction at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in Washington, DC. She skillfully leads strategic communications, overseeing public affairs, media relations, and community engagement strategies for important projects.
Rev. Scott is recognized for her expertise in managing comprehensive media campaigns, drafting speeches for senior officials, and implementing innovative digital solutions. This includes the development of podcasts and informative articles that keep stakeholders updated on VA initiatives.
Before her impactful role at the VA, Rev. Scott dedicated over 16 years to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where she excelled as a senior health communication specialist. During her tenure, she was instrumental in launching the agency’s first ChatGPT platform and served in various capacities, including leading communication efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her work encompassed significant projects related to health equity and public health campaigns that received national recognition.
Rev. Scott is also deeply committed to leadership and community engagement, having graduated from Georgia Forward’s Young Game Changers program and serving on the Board of the CDC’s Young Professionals Network. A founding member of the Younger Women Task Force Atlanta, she played a crucial role in advocating for women’s issues and public policy initiatives in Georgia.
An ordained interfaith minister, Rev. Scott holds a Master’s in Professional and Business Communications from LaSalle University and a Bachelor’s in Mass Communication from Cheyney University of Pennsylvania. Her career reflects a steadfast commitment to excellence in communications, public health leadership, and transformative community advocacy.
(The following is from a written interview with Rev. Terica)
What called you to One Spirit?
I have studied religions and spiritual traditions since I was 19, and I still get excited about discovering the countless ways people experience the Divine! I’ve always been a seeker—curious, questioning, exploring—and eventually I realized I wanted to help other people who were searching too.
I wanted people to know that spirituality could be expansive, joyful, deeply personal, and completely authentic to who they are.
One Spirit became a place where I could cultivate a ministry that reflects who I truly am. I didn’t have to fit my spirituality into one box. I could bring together the traditions I had studied, my own lived experiences, my creativity, my love of people, and my desire to serve—and allow all of those pieces to become ministry.
One Spirit helped me give form to something Spirit had already been growing in me for years.
How has One Spirit shaped you and the way you show up in the world?
One of the greatest gifts One Spirit gave me was my people!
Creative thinkers. Spiritual pioneers. Seekers. Innovators. People passionate about healing, serving, questioning, creating, and imagining what ministry can become.
There is nothing quite like walking into a room and realizing, Ohhhh…these are my people!
I came to One Spirit already confident in my spirituality and in my ability to serve. What expanded here was my experience of community. Learning alongside people who approach spirituality with imagination, courage, curiosity, and love inspired me.
I feel deeply honored to stand among people who genuinely want to help and heal others.
One Spirit didn’t give me my spirituality—I came with that. It gave me a community where I could expand it, trust it, create with it, and turn it into service.
What does your ministry look like today?
My ministry is called Soul’s Joy Ministry, and that name captures so much of what I believe: our spiritual lives can lead us back to joy.
My ministry doesn’t live in just one place. It shows up through prayer, spiritual companionship, writing, teaching, healing work, ceremonies, creative expression, community building, and simply being present with people during meaningful moments in their lives.
I am especially excited about my upcoming workshop, Sacred Healing: The MESH Approach™ for Relationship Trauma.
The workshop introduces the Multi-Modal Emotional & Spiritual Healing Approach™ (MESH Approach™), a framework I developed to explore healing through emotional, spiritual, creative, and embodied practices.
Relationship trauma can touch the heart, body, mind, spirit, and our sense of self, so healing may need more than one pathway. Through rhythm, art, movement, prayer, meditation, journaling, music, storytelling, ritual, reflection, and compassionate witnessing, we explore ways of reconnecting with ourselves and the Divine.
One of the most important ideas behind MESH™ is that our healing does not have to depend upon another person participating in it.
More information about the upcoming workshop will be available soon on the One Spirit website.
How has your experience with One Spirit helped you bridge the gaps of difference in your life and in your work/service in the world?
I love our differences!
I don’t think difference is something we simply need to tolerate or overcome. I believe it is one of the most beautiful expressions of the Divine.
Look at us! Different cultures, faiths, identities, stories, gifts, ways of worshipping, ways of loving, and ways of understanding God—and somehow Spirit moves through all of it.
To me, our differences are the artistry of the Divine. They are the beauty and grace of Spirit made visible.
One Spirit strengthened my ability to meet people there—with curiosity instead of judgment and with reverence for the sacredness of their individual paths. My ministry doesn’t require someone to believe what I believe. It invites us to recognize the Divine in one another.
A Blessing from Rev. Terica Dion Scott
My blessing is an invitation: Come pray with us!
I absolutely love our Prayer Circle. I love hearing how different people pray. I love the voices, traditions, intentions, tenderness—and surprisingly, I have fallen completely in love with the silence between the prayers.
Oh, that silence!
Something happens there. We gather this beautiful sacred energy together, and sometimes nobody needs to say anything at all. The silence becomes the prayer.
So come! Pray out loud. Pray silently. Bring something that needs prayer. Hold someone else’s prayer. Or simply sit with us and receive.
There is room for you.
We gather on Zoom every fourth Sunday at 9:30 a.m. Eastern through the One Spirit Interfaith Prayer Circle.
And prayer doesn’t have to wait until the fourth Sunday. Our online prayer community offers a place to share prayers and pray with one another anytime. Click below to join.
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Stay Connected
Explore Soul’s Joy Ministry, upcoming offerings, and more at SoulsJoy.org.
And join our growing interfaith and interspiritual community: Join the Interfaith & Interspiritual Community
For me, this is what sacred calling looks like: seeking, serving, creating, healing, loving—and spreading joy in all the beautiful ways Spirit shows up along the way.
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Share your sacred calling…
If you are a graduate of One Spirit who wants to share your inspirational alumni story, we would love to hear from you. Please contact Rev. Terica at terica@1spirit.org, so we can discuss featuring your sacred calling in a future Alumni Spotlight.
