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...televangelist was fulfilling a promise he had made during a fund-raising drive that netted $20 million for the debt-ridden PTL. Looking a little pale at the top of the 163-ft.-long water slide, Falwell recited the Lord's Prayer before his hellish four-second descent into the pool below, where he landed shoes up. Nearby, a group of PTL partners brandished a sign that read FALWELL, DON'T BACKSLIDE...
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...
Households viewing televangelist broadcasts, in millions...
Someone apparently less confident, though, was Televangelist Jerry Falwell. The Lynchburg, Va., preacher, who took control of PTL after Jim Bakker's March 19 resignation, looked grim as he faced studio cameras later in the week on PTL's regular morning television show. Falwell told viewers that donations had taken a nosedive since PTL formally filed for bankruptcy on June 12. If $1.75 million is not raised by July 31, he announced, PTL might be forced to stop broadcasting on some of the 161 stations that, for a fee, carry the ministry's born-again message. Said Falwell: "There...
...House Ways and Means oversight subcommittee has also launched an investigation into the tax-exempt status not only of PTL but 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...