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Leadership

President

Rick Scarborough

Dr. Rick Scarborough has made a significant mark on the Christian community through decades of ministry, activism, and leadership. His influence spans churches, politics, education, and media.

Mobilizing Pastors & Churches

  • Founded Vision America and Recover America, organizations that equip pastors to engage in civic issues from a Biblical perspective.
  • Personally addressed over 25,000 pastors and faith leaders across the U.S., encouraging them to be “salt and light” in the public square.
  • Political & Cultural Advocacy
  • Gained national attention in 1992 for exposing controversial sex education content in a Texas high school, sparking a movement for Christian involvement in local governance.
  • Encouraged church members to run for public office—many went on to serve on city councils, school boards, and even in Congress.
  • Advocated for Biblically grounded school board candidates, especially in Houston ISD, and surrounding ISD’s to combat secular ideologies like CRT and radical gender theory.

Thought Leadership & Media Presence

  • Authored several books including Enough is Enough, Mixing Church and State God’s Way, Liberalism Kills Kids, and America in the Balance.
  • Shares daily insights through his 1-minute Commentaries entitled, “That’s My Take,” by Rick Scarborough which broadcasts on over 300 radio stations nationwide.
  • Featured in major media outlets like Larry King Live, Fox News, CNN’s God’s Warriors, and HBO’s Friends of God.
  • Led Bible studies for members of Congress, the State Department, and the Pentagon during his time in Washington, D.C..

Ministry Legacy

  • As senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Pearland, Texas, baptized over 2,000 people, built a 27-acre campus, and launched a Christian academy and retirement center.
  • Dr. Scarborough’s work has helped shape a movement of Christian civic engagement, blending faith with action in a way that continues to ripple through communities nationwide.

Planning and Development

Bill Gattis

Bill Gattis is an Austin native, and a graduate with a BS degree with honors in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas. Bill worked for Exxon Mobil and its predecessor companies for 38 years.  Bill plays a vital role in the planning and implementation of the strategies for Recover America’s continuing effort to reach Pastors and lay people to respond to their civic duty as Christians.  He also researches and edits the “That’s my take”  commentaries for Dr. Scarborough.

Executive Assistant/Office Manager

Nicole Goin

Nicole Goin started with Recover America in May of 2022. She is a vital part of Recover America and its mission to mobilize pastors and their congregations. Since joining the team, Nicole has undertaken a wide range of responsibilities and plays a vital role in assuring accurate and timely implementation of essentially everything associated with a smoothly functioning office. With a background in the legal profession, she is gifted with keen judgment, wonderful interpersonal skills, attention for details and works tirelessly to assure that all things run as efficiently and effectively as possible. Always putting others before herself, she keeps everyone on point and makes sure Recover America operates at full capacity.

Legislative Liaison

Bonnie Wallace

Recover America welcomed Bonnie Wallace to the team in May of 2025 to serve as the “Legislative Liaison” to help Recover America in the fight to keep pornographic materials out public schools. In November 2021, Bonnie Wallace was shown the book Gender Queer, which was in the children’s section of the Llano County library, and she set out to do whatever she could to protect the children of Llano County from pornographic content. On April 25, 2022, Llano County, its judge, all 4 County Commissioners, its Library Director and 4 members of the Library Advisory Board, including Bonnie, were sued for relocating 17 pornographic books out of the children’s section of the Llano County Library.  Keep in mind that Llano County is the first library IN AMERICA sued for relocating pornography OUT of their children’s section.  Bonnie has been on a crusade to eradicate sexually explicit and pervasively vulgar content from children’s access ever since.  She has visited over 100 cities in Texas to teach those community members what to look for, how to find it and what to do when they find it … because pornography has crept into every city.  Seek and ye shall find.  Bonnie works with Texas legislators to craft legislation to protect the innocence of Texas children.  She also travels across the state and beyond with pastors and patriots to bring awareness to this issue.  Bonnie is thankful that God is using her in this battle, and she cannot wait to equip more patriots to help fight the demonic content which she has discovered in libraries all across America.