Julius Richard Scruggs was born in Elkton, Tennessee to the Reverend and Mrs. Earl Scruggs, Sr. and reared in Toney, Alabama. He is a graduate of Council Training High School in Huntsville, Alabama.
A proud native of the picturesque island of New Providence, nestled in the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, Reverend Don Darius Butler, was nurtured in the Christian faith in the Pentecostal tradition and professed his hope in Christ as a Baptist.
