Swaggart worked several part-time odd jobs in order to support his young family and also began singing Southern Gospel music at various churches.Īccording to his autobiography, Swaggart, along with his wife and son, lived in poverty during the 1950s as he preached throughout rural Louisiana, struggling to survive on US$30 a week (Approximately $250 adjusted for inflation to 2016). Together, the couple have a son named Donnie. 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, 25-member Assemblies of God church in Ferriday. He also had a sister, Jeanette Ensminger (1942–1999). He is the cousin of rock'n'roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis and country music star Mickey Gilley. By relation, he is the nephew of Arilla (née Swaggart) Wells (1916–2015), who was also the manager of Wells Grocery in Tunica, Louisiana. Jimmy Lee Swaggart was born on March 15, 1935, in Ferriday, Louisiana. As a result of the scandals, Swaggart temporarily stepped down as the head of Jimmy Swaggart Ministries. Sexual scandals with prostitutes in the late 1980s and early 1990s led the Assemblies of God to defrock him. He currently owns and operates the SonLife Broadcasting Network.
At its height in the 1980s, his telecast was transmitted to over 3,000 stations and cable systems each week. and on 78 channels in 104 other countries, and over the Internet. The weekly Jimmy Swaggart Telecast and A Study in the Word programs are broadcast throughout the U.S.
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Swaggart's TV ministry, which began in 1971, has a viewing audience both in the U.S. Jimmy Lee Swaggart (born March 15, 1935) is an American Pentecostal evangelist, Christian music singer, pianist, pastor, and author.
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