In 1988, Swaggart was implicated in a sex scandal involving a prostitute that resulted initially in his suspension, and ultimately defrocking, by the Assemblies of God. By 1983, more than 250 television stations broadcast Swaggart's telecast. In the early 1980s Swaggart's crusades expanded to major cities nationwide. In 1980, Swaggart began a daily weekday telecast featuring Bible study and music, and the weekend, hour-long telecast included a service from either Family Worship Center (Swaggart's church) or an on-location crusade in a major city. In 1978 Swaggart's weekly telecast was expanded to an hour. Jimmy Swaggart Ministries still operates several radio stations that operate under the name Sonlife Radio.īy 1975, Swaggart's television ministry had expanded to more stations around the U.S., and he started using television as his primary preaching forum. Swaggart sold many of his radio stations gradually throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. As Contemporary Christian music became more prevalent, the station avoided playing it. The station broadcast Christian feature stories, preaching and teaching from various fundamentalist and Pentecostal denominations and played black gospel, Southern gospel, and inspirational music. In the late 1960s Swaggart began transmitting a weekly 30-minute telecast over various local television stations in Baton Rouge and also purchased a local AM radio station, WLUX (now WPFC). In the late 1960s, Swaggart founded what was then a small church named the Family Worship Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana the church eventually became district-affiliated with the Assemblies of God. In 1961, Swaggart was ordained by the Assemblies of God a year later he began his radio ministry. In 1960, he began recording gospel music record albums and transmitting on Christian radio stations. He began developing a revival-meeting following throughout the American South. Preaching from a flatbed trailer donated to him, Swaggart began full-time evangelistic work in 1955.
Although the offer meant a promise for significant income for him and his family, Swaggart turned Phillips down, stating that he was called to preach the gospel. Swaggart's cousin Jerry Lee Lewis, who had previously signed with Sun, was reportedly making $20,000 per week at the time.
Sun Records producer Sam Phillips wanted to start a gospel line of music for the label (undoubtedly to remain in competition with RCA Victor and Columbia, who also had gospel lines at the time) and wanted Swaggart for Sun as the label's first gospel artist. Being too poor to own a home, the Swaggarts lived in church basements, pastors' homes, and small motels. Swaggart worked several part-time odd jobs in order to support his young family and also began singing Southern Gospel music at various churches.Īccording to his autobiography, Swaggart, along with his wife and son, lived in poverty during the 1950s as he preached throughout rural Louisiana, struggling to survive on US$30 a week (Approximately $250 adjusted for inflation to 2016). Together, the couple have a son named Donnie. In 1952, aged 17, Swaggart married 15-year-old Frances Anderson whom he met in church while he was playing music with his father. With his parents, Swaggart attended a small, 25-member Assemblies of God church in Ferriday. He also had a sister, Jeanette Ensminger (1942–1999). He is the cousin of rock'n'roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis and country music star Mickey Gilley.
By relation, he is the nephew of Arilla (née Swaggart) Wells (1916–2015), who was also the manager of Wells Grocery in Tunica, Louisiana. Jimmy Lee Swaggart was born on March 15, 1935, in Ferriday, Louisiana.
As a result of the scandals, Swaggart temporarily stepped down as the head of Jimmy Swaggart Ministries. Sexual scandals with prostitutes in the late 1980s and early 1990s led the Assemblies of God to defrock him. He currently owns and operates the SonLife Broadcasting Network. At its height in the 1980s, his telecast was transmitted to over 3,000 stations and cable systems each week. and on 78 channels in 104 other countries, and over the Internet. The weekly Jimmy Swaggart Telecast and A Study in the Word programs are broadcast throughout the U.S.
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Swaggart's TV ministry, which began in 1971, has a viewing audience both in the U.S. Jimmy Lee Swaggart (born March 15, 1935) is an American Pentecostal evangelist, Christian music singer, pianist, pastor, and author.
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