Melissa Scott (pastor)
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| Melissa Scott | |
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| Born | Melissa Paulina Peroff on April 10, 1968 in Rome, Italy |
| Spouse | Paul Pastore, 1992-1995 Dr. William Eugene Scott, 2000-2005 (his death) |
| Church | Protestant (Paulinist) |
| Congregations served | Pastor, Los Angeles (CA) University Cathedral |
| Offices held | President and CEO of the University Network, Los Angeles, California |
Melissa Scott or Melissa Pastore-Scott (born Melissa Peroff on April 10, 1968 in Rome, Italy[citation needed]) is an American pastor. She is the widow of Dr. Eugene "Gene" Scott, an ordained minister and religious broadcaster. Since her husband's death in 2005, she has led the congregation at churches in Los Angeles and Glendale, California as the executive pastor. She is also the current pastor of and biblical teacher in Gene Scott's Los Angeles University Catherdal, as well as CEO and President of the ministry's University Network.
[edit] Career
After a conversion to Christianity, Melissa became a member of Dr. Scott's University Cathedral Church in Los Angeles in 1995. In 1995, Melissa divorced Paul Pastore, and Dr. Gene Scott in turn ended a long-term relationship with Christine Shaw, whom he began dating in 1975, in 1996.[improper synthesis?] The two then began courting each other by 1998, when Dr. Scott made Melissa his associate pastor. They were married in Reno, Nevada in August 2000, when he was 70 and she was 32. Dr. Scott died of prostate cancer in 2005, leaving her to inherit the Scott estate and ministry.
In 1998, Dr. Scott ordained Melissa Scott as administrative pastor. Shortly before Scott's death in 2005, he signed papers to transfer the bulk of his possessions to Melissa Scott, including "Faith Center" church in Glendale, California and "Wescott Christian Center", which was titleholder to the Los Angeles University Cathedral until it was sold in October, 2011.[1] Her sermons have been televised as well as broadcast on short-wave radio in Nashville, Tennessee[2] and the Caribbean.[3][4] In addition, she has made the teachings of Eugene Scott available on an Internet feed.[5]
Scott's sermons have a pedagogical aspect, and she claims to have taught herself twenty languages and uses this to aid her investigation and discussion of Hebrew and Aramaic religious texts.[4] She refers to Eugene Scott as her mentor.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ Roger Vincent (October 17, 2011), Historic United Artists building sells for $11 million, Los Angeles Times, http://articles.latimes.com/2011/oct/17/business/la-fi-property-report-20111017
- ^ "Welcome to our website". World Wide Christian Radio. http://www.wwcr.com/. Retrieved February 15, 2011.
- ^ "Shortwave audio clips -". BCDX.ORG - Caribbean Beacon 11,775 kHz. May 19, 2009. http://www.bcdx.org/?p=106. Retrieved February 15, 2011.
- ^ a b c "Dr Gene Scott's bio". Pastor Melissa Scott. http://www.pastormelissascott.com/dr-gene-scott.shtml. Retrieved February 15, 2011.
- ^ "Pastor Melissa Scott presents Dr. Gene Scott". Pastor Melissa Scott. http://www.drgenescott.com/. Retrieved February 15, 2011.
