These stations composed FBN, the Faith Broadcasting Network. In 1975, while serving his Oroville ministry, Scott was approached to serve as a financial consultant for the 45-year-old Faith Center church in Glendale, California, by its then pastor and founder, religious broadcaster Ray Schoch.įaith Center owned four broadcast stations: KHOF-TV channel 30 in San Bernardino, California, KHOF-FM 99.5 in Los Angeles, California, KVOF-TV channel 38 in San Francisco, California, and WHCT channel 18 in Hartford, Connecticut. Gene was a featured speaker at its eighth annual convention in 1970, and served as its president from October 1975 to July 1984.
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“Ted” Scott) was vice-president on the executive board of the Full Gospel Fellowship of Churches and Ministers International. Upon Scott's death all assets and copyrights transferred to his wife Melissa Scott.ĭuring 1970, Scott's father (W.T. The Wescott Christian Center is the title-holder to various church properties and bank accounts, according to county records. His father, known as "Pop Scott", and his mother, known as "Mom Scott", assisted him at his new church. Later, Scott was elected the church's pastor by a unanimous vote of the board of Faith Center in Glendale, California. In 1970, Scott resigned his Assemblies of God credentials in good standing to focus on the Wescott Christian Center (aka Community Bible Church ) with his father, a pastor in Oroville, California. It needs to be told from the Word, and it needs to be experienced, and it needs to be seen." Wescott Christian Center Focusing on human frailties of Old Testament prophets and New Testament apostles, he concluded that the message of the church (his assigned theme for the occasion) was, "the message of a Person-Jesus Christ and Him crucified. Louis, Missouri, Scott preached one of four major evening messages to a crowd of about 7000 registered participants at the Kiel Auditorium. Īt their August 26–29, 1968 Council on Evangelism held in St. Zimmerman) appointed Scott as one of fourteen persons to serve on their Committee on Advance as Research Director.
While working as president of Wescott Christian Center, on July 12, 1967, the AG General Superintendent (Thomas F. Scott eventually joined the Assemblies of God, a Pentecostal denomination, and served overseas as a missionary for several years. He taught at Evangel College (now Evangel University), then assisted Oral Roberts in establishing Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma. in Philosophies of Education at Stanford University in 1957 his Doctoral Dissertation dealt with the theology of Reinhold Niebuhr. “A hard study of the resurrection of Christ led to a firm faith,” and Scott's journey back to faith is laid out in his summation under the title: “A Philosopher Looks at Christ.” He went on to complete a Ph.D. His search for faith caused him to change majors on every degree. Though raised a minister's son, he rebelled against tradition early in life and became agnostic in college. Affiliate television and radio stations broadcast Scott's services and nightly teachings. In 1983, the University Network began broadcasting the first twenty-four-hour religious television network via satellite to North America and much of Mexico and the Caribbean. Scott added a nightly live television broadcast to the network, the Festival of Faith. Faith Broadcasting Network was the first Christian television station and the first to provide 24-hour Christian programming. In 1975, Scott was elected pastor of Faith Center, a 45-year-old church of congregational polity in Glendale, California. For the last 15 years of his ministry, Scott held weekly Sunday Bible teaching services at the Los Angeles University Cathedral in Los Angeles, California. During his career, Scott served as a traveling teacher for the Pentecostal Assemblies of God, the president of the Full Gospel Fellowship of Churches and Ministers International for nine years and, for a combined total of 35 years, as the pastor for the Protestant Wescott Christian Center and Faith Center. in Philosophies of Education at Stanford University in 1957 and subsequently served as an ordained minister for nearly five decades.
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