Word: swaggart
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Aside from PTL, few ministries produce more controversy than the television empire of Louisiana's pugnacious Jimmy Swaggart. It was Swaggart who prodded his denomination, the Assemblies of God, into defrocking Bakker. The bayou spellbinder boasts the highest U.S. ratings for a televangelist, and his shows are broadcast by 3,200 stations in 145 countries. Swaggart has lately provided journalists with audited financial statements of his ministry for 1984 and 1985, and this month an unaudited two-page financial report went out to donors, with pie charts showing the ministry's income and outgo. Just how much of the Swaggart...
...Swaggart is frank about his powers as head of Jimmy Swaggart Ministries. "The board does not run these organizations," he says. "Legally it has the final say. If it said, 'No, you can't build a Bible college,' I couldn't build one. But you know what I'd do? I'd fire the board, because I'm the spiritual head of this organization. It can't run without me." Swaggart's board is unlikely to rebel. It consists of himself, Wife Frances, Son Donnie, Daughter-in-Law Debbie, Ministry Lawyer William Treeby and four clergy chums. Swaggart says...
...Swaggart organization has been involved in several convoluted legal disputes. Among the charges leveled against Swaggart over the years, the most serious was a 1983 accusation that contributions to a children's aid fund went for other purposes. The operation was undoubtedly sloppy, since money raised went into the general fund, and only after 1984 did the outflow of children's aid match the $21.8 million in donations...
DESCRIPTION: May 1986 to May 1987; Swaggart (weekly), Schuller, Roberts, Falwell, 700 Club, Swaggart (daily), PTL Club. Does not include cable audience. Illustration of shouting man holding up Bible...
...also of ten other major televangelist organizations. The committee has asked PTL representatives, among others, to appear at a hearing, probably in September. Texas Democrat J.J. Pickle, a member of the committee, last week met with the eleven religious broadcasters involved in the probe, including Falwell and Preacher Jimmy Swaggart of Baton Rouge, La., to question them closely about TV ministries' finances...