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Local politicians, ex-Football Star Roosevelt Grier, and Evangelists Rex Humbard and Pat Robertson attended. Barbara Mandrell sang the national anthem. There was a congratulatory letter from President Reagan. The festivities in Tulsa last week preceded not the kickoff of a football game but the opening of the City of Faith, the $150 million medical complex that Evangelist Oral Roberts claims he built on direct orders from...
...evangelists subject only to boards led by relatives and retainers. To allay doubts, nondenominational ministries in 1979 created the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (E.C.F.A.) to fix fund-raising standards. Many evangelists, including Billy Graham and Jerry Falwell, have won its seal of approval; others, including Jim Bakker, Rex Humbard, Oral Roberts and Pat Robertson, have not. Bayly advises contributors to demand a financial statement even if a group has the E.C.F.A. seal: "If questions are dodged, assume it is a careless operation at best, fraudulent at worst...
...mammoth Washington Hilton ballroom, Rex Humbard, 60, and his family tape their down-home variety show of song and gospel patter for his 236 TV outlets in the U.S. and 414 in other nations. The set: a rotating stage carpeted in black velvet with a ramp bordered by flashing lights...
Those were three episodes last week in the continuing drama of TV-radio preaching, one of the most successful and controversial enterprises in American religion. Humbard's program was performed for the 37th and splashiest annual meeting of National Religious Broadcasters (NRB), a trade association for 900 programmers. As if to underscore their clout, President Carter dropped by minutes before Humbard's tapes rolled to mend election-year fences with his fellow Evangelical Protestants. He thus became the latest presidential contender to seek NRB members' favor. But, mostly, the NRB convention air hummed with talk of stations...
...Dallas real estate financing company that had been invited in as a comanager. Among the hundreds of obligations are loans to owners of race tracks, jai-alai frontons, boat slips, tennis courts and a $5 million mortgage on Ohio's Cathedral of Tomorrow, whose minister, Sawdust Evangelist Rex Humbard, likes to exhort: "You'd better straighten out and fly right with God." Last year $52 million was on loan to parties-in-interest," meaning institutions or individuals who have business or fiduciary relations with the fund; 55 loans were classified as "uncollectible" and 26 were in outright default...