Lester Sumrall

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Lester Frank Sumrall (born February 15, 1913 in New Orleans , † April 28, 1996 ) was an ordained American clergyman and founder of the LeSEA , a mission and broadcast company .

Life

Sumrall was born the son of Betty and George Sumrall in New Orleans, Louisiana , USA . In 1930 he miraculously recovered from tuberculosis and began preaching. He founded a parish in Green Forest ( Arkansas ) and finally in 1932 in the Pentecostal embossed Assemblies of God ordained pastor's Church. Sumrall then traveled to various countries as an evangelist . While traveling, he planted a church during a revival in the Philippines . On September 30, 1944, he married Louise Layman, with whom he had three sons. The couple settled in South Bend , where Sumrall founded a church called the Cathedral of Praise .

His advisers included Alfred Howard Carter and Smith Wigglesworth .

Sumrall increasingly separated from the Assemblies of God Church. In 1957 Sumrall finally founded the Lester Sumrall Evangelistic Association (LeSEA), a Christian broadcasting company that has broadcast the radio program WHME 103.1 since 1968 and the TV program World Harvest Florida Television (WHFT) since the early 1970s . LeSEA maintains various radio and television stations, an orphanage, the World Harvest Bible College and is the editor of a magazine under the name World Harvest . Sumrall is considered the "father of Christian television". In 1973 he secured the license for the first Christian 24-hour television program with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and started WHMB Christian Television in Noblesville, Indiana .

Sumrall died on April 28, 1996 at the age of 83.

Works

  • Miracles Don't Just Happen , 1979
  • The Gifts and Ministries of the Holy Spirit , 1982
  • My Story to his Glory , 1983
  • Faith to Change the World , 1983

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Randall Herbert Balmer: Sumrall, Lester (Frank) (1913–1996) . In: Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism . Baylor University Press, Waco 2004, ISBN 1-932792-04-X , pp. 666 (English).
  2. ↑ a b Lester Sumrall's entry at FindAGrave.com
personal data
SURNAME Sumrall, Lester
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sumrall, Lester Frank (full name); LeSEA
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American clergyman, founder of the LeSEA Broadcasting Company
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH New Orleans
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1996