Lives were changed, the word spread, and before long folks across America and beyond were asking for this miracle of Christian television. Within just a few years TBN was expanding to cities across the U. Early on TBN introduced an innovative partnership program, called the Praise-a-Thon, designed to bring viewers up-close to all the excitement and action on the TBN set, and give them a sense of the passion for souls and love for Jesus that motivated everything that was happening at TBN.
Click to enlarge image of TBN's first website launched in Praise-a-Thon is an unforgettable experience — and a blessing for both the viewers and those participating in the studio. A typical Praise-a-Thon includes live music by award-winning and anointed Christian artists of the day, inspiring messages from top pastors and Christian leaders, and plenty of testimonies of lives changed as a result of people turning in to TBN.
Of course, the crucial theme and thread running through every Praise-a-Thon from start to finish is an invitation for our viewers to become partners with TBN in regular prayer and financial commitment — literally to become a part of the TBN family in helping take the miracle of Christian television to every corner of the earth.
TBN has always been quick to embrace technologies that extend its reach to more people with the hope of the gospel. In the s TBN was one of the first networks to use satellite to broadcast its programming globally.
TBN was also an early leader in using the Internet to share its content online. But with all of our lack and limits, we had three essential qualities that made all the difference: We were available, we had faith to believe God for the impossible, and we had a core of partners who shared our vision and stood with us. Her father, heir apparent to the Trinity Broadcasting Network empire, was addicted to pornography; she caught her mother performing sex acts on another man, and was encouraged to be promiscuous.
Those were among the statements in court Monday at the start of a trial that promises to air the dirty laundry of the first family of Christian broadcasting. Carra Crouch, the year-old granddaughter of the late Jan and Paul Crouch, says she was sexually assaulted by a TBN employee at a Praise-A-Thon fundraiser when she was 13 years old, and that her grandmother knew of the attack. Trinity attorney Michael King told the newly impaneled jury in Orange County Superior Court that Carra was a deeply troubled youth before that day in April that she claims changed her life.
Both sides acknowledge that the year-old and a year-old man who worked for the Crouches smoked a cigarette together on her balcony, drank alcohol in her room and watched a movie on her bed, according to depositions in the civil trial. Trinity maintains that young Carra Crouch fell asleep that night, ending the episode — and that the girl was foolish to let a year-old man in her room. But Carra Crouch argues that the man fondled her, tried to kiss her, and gave her a glass of water that she suspects was laced with a drug that made her pass out, according to her lawsuit against Trinity Christian Center of Santa Ana, the nonprofit that runs the Christian broadcasting empire TBN.
When she awoke, she suspected she had been raped. She yelled at her. His family eventually moved to California, where they co-founded Trinity Broadcasting Network in They divorced in During the formative years of TBN, Crouch worked behind the scenes alongside his parents and younger brother Matthew.
In , he briefly entered the spotlight as an outspoken critic of backmasking. Crouch made appearances on both religious networks including TBN and secular programs, such as The Merv Griffin Show, playing rock music recordings he believed contained Satanic messages when played backward. In , he formed PJ Video, a full-service video production company that offered post-production services for both Christian ministries and secular clients.
0コメント