W l swaggart biography
When Willie Leon Swaggart was born on 15 February , in Mangham, Richland, Louisiana, United States, his father, William Harry Swaggart, was 20 and his..
Jimmy Swaggart Biography
Jimmy Swaggart is a renowned American Pentecostal evangelist and a gospel music performer.
Currently, Jimmy owns and operates the SonLife Broadcasting Network.However, he was deprived of powers by the Assemblies of God in 1988 after a sex scandal that involved him with a local prostitute.
Jimmy was born to a sharecropper father.
Later on, his dad became a Pentecostal preacher in the Assemblies of God Church in the 1950s.
Biography.
Jimmy got the chance to learn the religion at a young age.
His cousins Jerry Lee Lewis, a rock and roll pioneer, and Mickey Gilley, a country music musician inspired him to venture into music. However, after trying music, he went back to help his parents in the Apostolic ministry.
In 1958, Jimmy became a full-time evangelist having his own ministry.
Later in 1961, he was ordained by the Assemblies of God. In 1969, Swaggart started The Camp Meeting Hour, a radio show featuring gospel music and sermon. The program soon started broadc