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Jim Bakker
Born
James Orsen Bakker
(1940-01-02) January 2, 1940 (age 84)
Muskegon, Michigan, U.S.
Spouses
Tammy Faye LaValley
(m. 1961; div. 1992)
Lori Beth Graham
(m. 1998)
Children
7, including Jay Bakker
Church
Assemblies of God (1960–1988) Charismatic (2003–present)
Congregations served
The PTL Club Heritage USA Heritage Village Church Morningside Church
James Orsen Bakker (/ˈbeɪkər/;[1] born January 2, 1940) is an American televangelist. Between 1974 and 1987, Bakker hosted the television program The PTL Club and its cable television platform, the PTL Satellite Network, with his then wife, Tammy Faye. He also developed Heritage USA, a now-defunct Christian theme park in Fort Mill, South Carolina.
In the late 1980s, Bakker resigned from the PTL ministry over a cover-up of hush money to church secretary Jessica Hahn for an alleged rape. Subsequent revelations of accounting fraud brought about felony charges, conviction, imprisonment, and divorce. Bakker later remarried and returned to televangelism, founding Morningside Church in Blue Eye, Missouri, and reestablishing the PTL ministry. He currently hosts The Jim Bakker Show, which focuses on the end times and the Second Coming of Christ while promoting emergency survival products. Bakker has written several books, including I Was Wrong and Time Has Come: How to Prepare Now for Epic Events Ahead.
^Ostling, Richard N. (June 24, 2001). "Power, Glory – and Politics". Time magazine. Archived from the original on March 8, 2009. Retrieved November 9, 2008.
hosts The JimBakker Show, which focuses on the end times and the Second Coming of Christ while promoting emergency survival products. Bakker has written...
She co-founded the televangelist program The PTL Club with her husband JimBakker in 1974. They had hosted their own puppet-show series for local programming...
1980s and into the 2000s. Hahn first came to public attention following JimBakker's announcement on March 19, 1987, that he was stepping down as head of...
Jamie Charles "Jay" Bakker (born December 18, 1975) is an American pastor, author, and speaker. He is the son of televangelists JimBakker and Tammy Faye Messner...
also known as The Jim and Tammy Show, was a Christian television program that was first hosted by evangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, running from 1974...
pastor, known for his role in the PTL scandal involving Tammy Faye Bakker and JimBakker. Fletcher was born in Durham, North Carolina in 1940. He dropped...
Simmons. It focused on the life of Jay Bakker, only son of JimBakker and Tammy Faye Messner (formerly Bakker), formerly evangelical ministers and hosts...
Carolina, founded by Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker in 1974 and dedicated in April 1977. During PTL's fourteen-year history, the Bakkers, as hosts of the network's...
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he married televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker in 1993 after her divorce from husband and PTL Club founder JimBakker. Messner grew up in Waldron, Kansas...
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full of weapons in all fifty states. In a 2018 appearance on evangelist JimBakker’s television program, Stone claimed that a government intelligence officer...
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Ankerberg presented evidence that exposed the moral failings of televangelist JimBakker, which included solicitation for sex and homosexual relations. In 1995...
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donate to JimBakker and Tammy Faye Bakker claiming they helped broken marriages and people. The PTL later declared bankruptcy and Bakker went to prison...
when several televangelists such as Jimmy Swaggart, Robert Tilton and JimBakker were under investigation for promising financial success to their listeners...
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Genesis, is a satire on televangelists such as Swaggart, Robert Tilton, and JimBakker. Canadian rock band the New Pornographers took their name from a 1986...
attempting to profiteer off COVID-19. In March 2020, he sued televangelist JimBakker and Morningside Church Productions, Inc. for falsely claiming that "Silver...
opposite Jessica Chastain, a drama about the televangelists Tammy Faye and JimBakker, which had its world premiere at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival...
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