Word: christian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...successful Campus Crusade for Christ, plans to raise $100 million next year?and a cool $1 billion by 1982?for another project. Its aim is to saturate the earth with Gospel preachers and placards. Bright, who is based in Arrowhead Springs, Calif., describes the effort as "the most extensive Christian social and evangelization mission in recorded history." A number of the richest businessmen in America are backing his campaign...
...newer TV face, Pat Robertson,46, founding father of the Virginia, based Christian Broadcasting Net; work, will open the first component of a proposed $50 million combined communications school and university next fall. The Yale Law graduate, son of Virginia's late U.S. Senator Willis A. Robertson, recently inaugurated a new satellite transmitter?the first one to be owned by an independent TV producer ?to feed various Gospel programs simultaneously to the four CBN-owned channels and 130 other stations at an annual cost of $20 million. Pentecostalist Robertson also acts as host on the 700 Club, seen daily...
This year stores in the Christian Booksellers Association had revenues of $600 million, thanks to pop devotionals and testimony books from Christianized Governors (Julian Carroll of Kentucky), athletes (Heisman Trophy Winner Archie Griffin, Tennis Star Stan Smith), businessmen (Walter Hoving of Tiffany) and entertainers (Pat Boone...
...Born Again, a film adapted from Nixonian Hatchet Man Charles Colson's testimonial book of the same title, is to be released in June. Production began in Washington last week. Actor Dean Jones (The Love Bug), also a born-again Christian, plays the celebrated convert...
...less visible. It goes on at the grass-roots level from one convert to another in thousands of local congregations, some of them quite small and isolated. It is a highly personal brotherhood. And for most Evangelicals the experience of receiving Christ is the principal event of any Christian life...