What you didn’t know about Jimmy Swaggart

Senior Pastor Jimmy Swaggart aka Jimmy Lee Swaggart is a renowned and multi-talented personality. He is a gospel music recording artist, singer and pianist. Swaggart has been in the industry since 1955, which is around 67 years now.

Also, since he started his television ministry over 5 decades ago, he has reached the greatest number of people in the United States as well as global audiences. Also, his program Jimmy Swaggart Television Broadcasting and A Study in the Word broadcast weekly not only in the United States, but also in 104 countries, gathered a large audience.

Moreover, he has been married to his wife Frances Swaggart for about 7 decades now. At the time of their marriage, they were just teenagers. Since then, the duo has welcomed a child into their family.

Moreover, he was involved in many controversies and scandals during his life. Read below to get more information about it.

How old is Jimmy Swaggart?

Jimmy Swaggart was born in 1935 on March 15 in Ferriday, Louisiana, United States of America to his parents. He is 87 years old and has a birth sign of Pisces.

Moreover, coming from America, he holds the nationality of the country, meanwhile, he has a white ethnicity. Moreover, with all his family, he follows the Christian religion.

His parents

Pastor Swaggart grew up to his parents; Minnie Belle Swaggart (1917-1960) and Willie Leon Swaggart (1915-1998).

Her father, Willie was a fiddler, and her mother, Minnie was a Pentecostal preacher. His mother is reported to have been the daughter of a sharecropper, William Herron.

His brothers and sisters

The famous personality, Swaggart had a brother Donnie Swaggart. However, for now, he is no longer with us, as he died in infancy. Besides his brother, he had a sister named Jeannette Swaggart Ensminger (1942-1999).

Also, in his family, he has cousins; Mickey Gilley and Jerry Lee Lewis. Mickey was a very popular singer and songwriter in his day. Likewise, Jerry is also recognized as a songwriter, singer, and pianist. Just like his other siblings, Mickey is also dead. He died on May 7, 2022.

His school career

When Jimmy was born, his parents were facing a huge financial crisis. Because of this, he never had the chance to get into a formal school or college. However, he was lucky enough to attend a church. There he learned the Bible and he continues to promote and spread the knowledge he has gathered around the world.

Career

Swaggart began full-time evangelistic work in his early days. After doing evangelistic work for about five years, he was seen recording gospel music albums and broadcasting on Christina radio stations in the 60s.

Also, he started his radio ministry in 1961. The following year he even started a small church; Family Worship Center in Baton, Rouge, Louisiana. There he serves as senior pastor.

In 1971, he began transmitting a weekly half-hour television program on various stations. Later, he bought a local AM radio station, WLUX, to reach a wide range of audiences. Seeing its global popularity, in 1978 its weekly broadcast was increased to one hour. And, in 1983, his show was broadcast on more than 250 stations.

Additionally, in the past, it has been nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Performance for Traditional Gospel.

Its author and musical credit

During his life he wrote various books. Among these, the popular one is Religious Rock n Roll: a wolf in sheep’s clothing. You can get the book from Amazon for around $6.97.

Other books he has published are; The Expositor Study Bible – Giant Print, Biblia De Estudio del Expositor, The Holy Spirit, What I Hate, What I Do, and more.

Moreover, he is also notable for his cover of Chuck Girard’s song titled Sometimes Alleluia. Likewise, his other songs are Jesus Use Me, Mercy Rewrote My Life, Where The Roses Never Fade and many more.

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Jimmy Swaggart founded the Family Christina Academy

A senior pastor, Swaggart is the one who founded the Family Christina Academy (FCA) in 1982. Although he led the school in its early days, the school was later handed over to Carolyn Richards, identified as the mother-in-law of the Swaggart’s grandson.

The school offers the best education and a solid foundation in the Lord and his word. They are also said to educate children in the fear and warning of the Lord.

Additionally, his ministries also own the SonLife broadcast network.

Jimmy Swaggart has been married to Frances Swaggart for over 7 years

He is married to his wife, Frances Swaggart, television host of Frances and her friends. The ceremony took place on October 10, 1952. At that time, Jimmy was only 17 and Frances was 15.

They are reported to have first met at the church in Wisner, Louisiana. At the time, he was playing music alongside his father, who was a pastor at the same church.

After getting married, they even worked different part-time jobs and they also started singing Southern Gospel music in various churches just to support their families.

Jimmy Swaggart is the father of a son

Jimmy and Frances have a child named Donnie, a preacher. He was born on October 18, 1954 and is 67 years old today. The family revealed that his name was taken directly from Jimmy’s deceased brother, in his memory.

Their child, Donnie, was married to Debbie and later divorced in 2003. Likewise, his second marriage was to Judy, but that didn’t last either.

After his other marriage failed, he was finally reunited with his first wife, Debbie, and remarried in 2006.

Jimmy has three grandchildren by Donnie and his wife, Debbie Swaggart. They are; two sons, Gabriel Swaggart and Matthew Swaggart, and one daughter, Jennifer Swaggart.

Jimmy Swaggart net worth

Jimmy Swaggart has an estimated net worth of $10 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. His income comes from his career as a Pentecostal author, artist, pianist and televangelist as well as his ministries.

He even collected decent assets by selling his albums and stations. He sold more than 17 million LP albums in the 1970s and 1980s. Besides that, he also sold many radio stations in the 80s and 90s.

Likewise, by 1987, Jimmy World Ministries and its Bible school had generated revenues of approximately $150 million. Among the huge collection, a whopping sum of money or $135 million was extracted solely from individual contributions from Jimmy’s television ministry.

Jimmy Swaggart and his ministries had to pay millions

In addition, his department was ordered to pay a price of more than $2.8 million to a group of investors. The group claimed that government departments abused the 2004 land deal to profit from property values. This was after Hurricane Katrina hit southeast Louisiana.

Likewise, after exposing Marvin Gorman in 1986, Gorman was defrocked from the Assemblies of God at this time. Because of this, he filed a lawsuit against Jimmy for defamation and conspiracy to ruin his reputation.

The case was on Marvin’s side in which Swaggart was to give $10 million. But they settle the case out of court for $1.75 million.

Jimmy Swaggart was involved with prostitutes

In 1988, he was suspended and defrocked by the Assemblies of God. It was because he was accused of a sex scandal with a prostitute.

Also, in 1991, he again became involved with prostitutes. At the time, he was arrested by an officer in Indio, California. He was then driving on the wrong side of the road. Plus, he was with a woman named Rosemary Garcia.

According to the police report, the woman revealed that Jimmy had stopped to offer her sex on the side of the road. Because of this, his ministry became non-denominational, unaffiliated, and much smaller.

Body measurements

Different media has stated that Jimmy is 5ft 5in tall which is 170cm. Meanwhile, it weighs around 76 Kg.

social media

He is active on Instagram where he has over 31,000 followers on his @jimmylswaggart handle. He posted 409 times and only followed 15 users. Likewise, 21,400 accounts followed him on his official Twitter account. Likewise, he could be found on Facebook, where he has 289,000 likes.

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