St. Helen priest followed winding path to Sweet Home

The Rev. Scott Baier didn’t intend to become a priest, though he grew up in a Catholic family.

“I became Catholic, really, because that was the religion of my family,” he said.

But things changed as he got older and became interested in finding ways to “interact with people better.”

Now he’s been the priest serving Holy Trinity-St. Helen Catholic Parish, which includes those churches in Brownsville and Sweet Home, for the past eight months.