Due to escalating costs, television evangelist Melissa Scott reports she is dropping her TV programs. To those who’ve watched her on KRON and the ION Network, Pastor Scott said she will use other means of reaching out with her ministry.
On a visit to San Quentin’s Garden Chapel in June, she explained the financial dilemma that’s being replayed in almost every other sector of life. “We’re the only television ministry that doesn’t tell people to give to us. The station raised (its) fees six times! When we stopped, they offered us a discount for six months, but that wasn’t going to be enough.”
Much of her nationwide audience has turned to the streaming video. She said she doesn’t intend to return to broadcasting at this time.
Pastor Scott is known for her skills in 27 languages. “I grew up speaking French, Italian and English,” she said, and later found she could quickly grasp many other dialects and languages.
She visits 15 prisons regularly to share of her faith. She commented that she has found significant degrees of sincerity among inmates. “This is real,” she said of the incarcerated. She reported there is more of a focus on worshiping and coming to know God.
Asked what verse she would share with those who don’t read the Bible, she cited Matthew 4:17: “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.”
To build Christian faith, Pastor Scott’s suggested, “Study the Bible every day; it has unsearchable riches one could never mine completely.”
