- Barbie Bridges is a world known actress and model with a following of millions in her new role as Pastor Melissa Scott. This unusual televangelist is the widowed third wife of Dr. (Eugene Scott), the pastor of the Los Angeles University Cathedral in downton L.A. with a broadcast ministry for over twenty-five years. Dr. Gene Scott was known for his flambuoyant lifestyle and on the air antics and rants to raise money. According to California Secretary of State corporate filings of public record and Mrs. Scott's announcements during her 2005 live broadcasts, Pastor Melissa Scott inherited her late husband's ministry, including Westcott Christian Center in Oroville, California, Faith Center in Glendale, California, known as Kings House One, Glendale's Kings House 2, which is the broadcast studio and Los Angeles University Cathedral in downtown Los Angeles. Pastor Melissa Scott also inherited the Berekely Mausoleum where her husband the deceased Dr. Gene Scott rests in peace with his deceased parents who were both pastors, known affectionately as "Mom" Scott and "Pop Scott."
- Melissa Scott was born on April 10, 1968, as Melissa Peroff. She coupled with Dr. Scott in 1995 as one of numerous playmate models compensated to attend Gene Scott's cathedral services and social events during the early 1990's. Melissa Scott was previously married to Paul Pastore 1992-1996. During the Pastore marriage, Melissa partnered with her husband to model, act in, direct and produce a plethora of adult entertainment films and photos where she appeared under the stage name, Barbie Bridges.
- The adult products can be readily found for sale on the internet, under Barbie Bridges Ent., and on a plethora of websites including rainbowgalleries.com, sportyonemodels and as identified through search engines. The renowned adult pornographers Suze Randall and Earl Miller market their copyrighted photographs of Barbie Bridges on their public websites bearing their names respectively. Influenced by the well honed ways of arousing for pleasure, Mrs. Scott sprinkles her message with double entendres and sexual overtones to her crew and the audience. In all, the new Pastor Melissa Scott televangelist, reads abbreviated, simplified messages from the notes of her late husband Dr. Gene Scott which she tailors to elevate her own missions.
- The ministry of Melissa Scott televangelist numbers some 100 volunteers and 250 regular attendees in her Sunday cathedral services held at the Los Angeles University Cathedral. While applying immense, accumulated assets of the late Gene Scott to expanding purchased air time for her shows, Mrs. Scott has declared a state of financial crisis in the church. Volunteers are not keeping pace with Melissa Scott's demands for more than 20 volunteer hours a week to answer her fundraising phones, walk security at her properties, work as household servants to her and ranch hands to her stable of horses, while editing 30,000 hours of old recordings for current television viewing and radio listening audiences.
- Church commentators have cited her use of expletives from the pulpit, self-absorption, lack of intellect or theological education and general abuse of her own staff and volunteers as reasons contributing to the decline. Others have voiced opinions that God is entering in and closing down the ministry for its legacy of promoting pastor worship, anti-family cultism and paying the pastor for eternal salvation, in lieu of following the teachings of Jesus Christ. The colorful pastor has sparked debate on commentary sites such as www.talkaboutpeople.com under celebrities and Gene Scott topics. The informational bulletin board can be accessed through Google Groups for pastor Melissa Scott. Pastor Scott preaches at 11:00 am on most Sundays at the Los Angeles University Cathedral. Mrs. Scott's volunteers, called Voices of Faith, are at her fundraising phone bank, to take your donations and reservation to church requests at 1-800-833-3030.
- Barbi Bridges has grown in fame on several continents through the global use of the internet and her large collections of copyrighted photographs which cannot be displayed here.
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