Who We Are
We are missionaries, dedicated Christ followers, who have been radically changed by a personal relationship with God, who have been called by God to minister, teach and train others.
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Christi Craddock Taylor
Founder/President
Biblical Counselor
Doris Craddock
Founder and CEO
1933 - 2026
Doris Jean Craddock become a Christian in her early years in her grandmother’s church. Doris married Jim when she was 18 and he was 19. Three months to the day from when they were married, Jim was inducted into the Army and went overseas to Okinawa. Doris worked as a telephone operator in Pueblo. While Jim was in Okinawa, he accepted Christ through the Navigator Ministry. They started on their Christian journey together when he returned home.
In 1973, Jim and Doris founded Scope Ministries International. In 2006, they founded His Truth Transforms International (HTTI) doing biblical counseling and training. After Jim passed away in 2014, Doris continued to work and counsel at HTTI with her daughter, Christi. She loved counseling women, teaching and attending bible study, meeting her friends for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, Sunday morning church and brunch with her group of church friends.
Doris ministered by counseling, speaking and facilitating. She also taught marriage classes for engaged and married couples through the State of Oklahoma, as well as teaching weekly bible studies, attending Christian Women’s Club where she held many board positions and gave her testimony. Doris was an Oklahoma CASA Child Advocate for over seven years. Her greatest joy was counseling women in growing and living for Jesus Christ.
Doris left a note saying, “I loved teaching Bible study, being with all my dear friends, counseling women, and the many dear people I was so very blessed to meet. I loved being a mother to my four boys and daughter who brought me much joy and blessings. I have also been blessed with my grandchildren, great grandchildren and their spouses. The Lord has been so good to me.”
One of Doris’ favorite scriptures was, “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit” Romans 15:13.
Doris ministered God’s word for 71 years. She left a legacy of deeply loving, treasuring each friendship, and sharing God’s Word to everyone she met. She is deeply missed.
The following video is Pastor Brian giving a benediction at Doris’ Celebration of Life service. Doris had left a note to be read at her celebration encouraging everyone to experience a personal relationaship with their Heavenly Father.
Kitty Ramirez
Counselor and Director of Training
1955 - 2025
In 2015, Kitty joined HTTI where she ministered to people, co-developed and taught the Free Indeed! bible study, developed the two-year Biblical Counseling Training, and was Director of the Training Department. Before that we worked with her at Scope Ministries International where she was a counselor at the Amsterdam Billy Graham conference in 2000, taught on mission trips to Africa and Ukraine, and went to New York City to help minister after 9/11. She loved being a student with Kay Arthur’s Precepts. She was willing to do anything that was asked with such a beautiful attitude. She is deeply missed. The following are the precious words Kitty wrote as she explains why she choose to minister God’s Word to hurting people:
“For thirty some years my heart’s desire has been to share the truths of God’s Word in bringing new believers to maturity in Christ. To help them see the hand extending from the throne of God is not something to be feared, cause panic, or to run from, but be embraced. To teach them to become more trusting and hold close His ways with the simplicity of a child.”
Jim Craddock
Founder
1932 - 2014
James Henry Craddock, author, lecturer, pioneer in biblical counseling and founder of several successful ministries, came to Christ through the ministry of The Navigators on Okinawa, where he served as a nuclear weapons disposal technician. Following graduation from the University of Colorado, he joined Campus Crusade for Christ, where he ministered for 15 years to college students, speaking on over 50 campuses every year.
In 1973, Jim founded Scope Ministries International, a ministry of biblical counseling. He has authored over 27 publications, including Pneumanetics Original, Pneumanetics and co-authored Be Transformed, which continues to be used by individuals, churches and biblical counseling centers. In 1986, Jim founded the International Association of Biblical Counselors to unite the discipline of biblical counseling.
Following the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombing in Oklahoma City, World Trade Center attacks in New York City, and several natural disasters, Jim wrote a Rapid Response Manual, which was used as a prototype by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA), to assist ministries in their disaster relief outreach. BGEA repeatedly called on Jim to lead the counseling at The International Conferences for Itinerant Evangelists at Amsterdam 83, 86 & 2000 and to provide counseling at many of the BGEA Conferences around the world.