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Randy Lee Scraper was born in Beloit, Kansas on July 5, 1950, to Robert Dale and Vida Lee Davis. He married Wanda Joy Jones on August 16, 1970 in Robinson, Kansas. They are the parents of three children, Heather, Matthew, and Stephanie.

He graduated from Hiawatha High School in 1968 and Baker University in 1971 where he earned a Bachelor of Music Education degree. He went on to earn a Master of Arts in Theology from Oral Roberts University in 1978; a Master of Divinity from St. Paul's School of Theology in 1980; a Doctor of Ministry from Oral Roberts University in 1984; as well as a Doctor of Philosophy in Franklian Psychology from the Graduate Theological Foundation in 2008. He completed additional post-graduate work at Asbury Theological Seminary.

Dr. Scraper was ordained in the United Methodist Church in 1974. He served congregations ranging from six members to over eight thousand in Texas, Ohio, Kansas, and Oklahoma. He has also served on the Board of Trustees for Baker University, the Board of Higher Education and Campus Ministry in the Kansas East Conference, the Board of Directors of the Ecumenical Christian Ministries in Kansas, and the Council of Finance and Administration for the Oklahoma Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. He was also tenured as the Joseph Fabry Professor of Pastoral Logotherapy for the Graduate Center for Pastoral Logotherapy at the Graduate Theological Foundation, after earning a Diplomate from the Viktor Frankl Institute of Logotherapy in Vienna, Austria where he served as an officer in the Mid-American Institute of Logotherapy.

Dr. Scraper did individual research in the Menninger Library where copies of all of Dr. Frankl's articles were housed. He has taught Logotherapy at Baker University's School of Professional and Graduate Studies and at Northwestern Oklahoma State University. He served on the faculty of the Viktor Frankl Institute of Logotherapy and the Graduate Center for Pastoral Logotherapy with the Graduate Theological Foundation where his field of expertise was the relationship of Logotherapy and Logo philosophy to Christian Spiritual Formation.

He was appointed to First United Methodist Church in Pecos, Texas; Edenton - Second Creek United Methodist churches in Edenton, Ohio; the Church of Pecos, Texas; Robinson United Methodist Church, Robinson, Kansas; St. Peter's United Methodist Church, Topeka, Kansas; Leawood United Methodist Church, Leawood, Kansas; First United Methodist Church, Tulsa, Oklahoma; First United Methodist Church, Duncan, Oklahoma; District Superintendent of the Woodward District of the United Methodist Church; Nichols Hills United Methodist Church, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and Lawton First United Methodist Church, Lawton, Oklahoma.

His hobbies included golf, chess, reading, writing, and flying remote control airplanes, model railroading, ham radio and gardening. He was an Eagle Scout. He was listed as an Outstanding Young Man of America in 1984. He was listed in the Third Edition of Who's Who in Religion in America.

He is preceded in death by his parents, Robert Dale and Vida Lee Davis, his brothers Robert David and Larry Eugene, and grandson Jacob Dakota Oden. He is survived by his spouse Wanda of the home, Heather Oden and husband Jon, Dr. Matthew Scraper and wife Kate, Stephanie Greenwald and husband Rev. Phil, as well as grandchildren JJ Oden and wife Allison, Lexi Gay and husband Coleman, Cody Oden, Caitlin Oden, Robyn Scraper, Samantha Hughes, Megan and fiancé Christopher Sollenberger, Kalli Greenwald, Tori Greenwald, and one great-grandchild on the way.