![]() ![]() 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 Assemblies of God church in Ferriday. He also had a sister, Jeanette Ensminger (1942–1999). He is the cousin of Rock-a-Billy pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis and country music star Mickey Gilley. The extended family had a complex network of interrelationships: "cousins and in-laws and other relatives married each other until the clan was entwined like a big, tight ball of rubber bands." They were related by marriage, as the maternal uncle of Son was Elmo Lewis, and was married to her sister Mamie. Jimmy Lee Swaggart was born on March 15, 1935, in Ferriday, Louisiana, to fiddle player and Pentecostal preacher Willie Leon (known as "Sun" or "Son") Swaggart and Minnie Bell, daughter of sharecropper William Herron. 4.2 Swaggart's confession and defrocking.The Jimmy Swaggart Ministries owns and operates the SonLife Broadcasting Network (SBN) and he is the senior pastor of Family Worship Center located on Blue Bonnet Blvd. In 1980, he received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Performance for Traditional Gospel. During the 1970s and 1980s, he sold in excess of 17 million LP albums. ![]() Swaggart plays piano and sings in a baritone voice. His “Crusades” enabled him to travel throughout the contiguous United States, Canada, Europe, Africa, and South America. Īt the height of his popularity in the 1980s, his telecast was transmitted in excess of 3,000 stations and cable systems each week. and on 78 channels in 104 countries, and over the Internet. The weekly Jimmy Swaggart Telecast and A Study in the Word programs are broadcast throughout the U.S. The television ministry, which began in 1971, and originally known as the “Camp Meeting Hour”, has a viewing audience both in the U.S. Jimmy Lee Swaggart ( / ˈ s w æ ɡ ər t/ born March 15, 1935) is an American Pentecostal televangelist. ![]()
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