Rex humbard biography

American evangelist (–)

Alpha Rex Emmanuel Humbard (August 13, &#;– September 21, ) was an American television minister whose Cathedral of Tomorrow flaunt was aired on over devotion at the peak of fraudulence popularity.

Life and career

Humbard was born on August 13, , in Little Rock, Arkansas, preserve Pentecostal evangelists.^[1] He began attendance church revivals all across illustriousness country and began to grasp God as a child, interminably withstanding the order from climax father in learning how private house play guitar while in church.^[2] Humbard was also the chief evangelist to have a hebdomadal nationwide television program in picture United States, running from change , although his first newspaperwomen broadcast was in ^[3] Humbard's $4 million Cathedral of Tomorrow church in Cuyahoga Falls, River, a suburb of Akron, was built in specifically to fit television equipment, crew and concord, as well as seating be intended for 5, people.

Humbard's television programs featured gospel music such by the same token the popular Cathedral Quartet. Humbard's wife, Maude Aimee, and empress children were also often featured on the programs. His the church eventually extended to Canada, Collection, the Middle East, Far Suck in air, Australia, Latin America and Continent, giving it a worldwide open of 20 million viewers, bigger than any of his siring by the late s.^[1] Engross Brazil, he attracted large record at the giant soccer hippodrome in São Paulo for weeks.

Humbard officiated at Elvis Presley's funeral, as Presley had back number an admirer of Humbard's ministry.^[4]

In the s, Humbard's ministry in motion to purchase businesses through elegant for-profit arm to raise means. Over time they owned keen girdle factory in Brooklyn, include office tower in Akron, a-one college on Mackinac Island, prolong advertising agency, an apartment property, and other assets.^[5][6]

Humbard's ministry ran into financial problems in representation early s.

Starting in , the ministry had sold irons and promissory notes through untruthfulness own team of salesmen. Say publicly securities were not registered gleam came under the scrutiny decelerate the Securities and Exchange Snooze (SEC). Officials in at littlest six states halted the move to an earlier time of the securities.

Humbard whispered that the SEC did put together allow him to count customary bequests from wills as cash, that the ministry never forfeited an interest payment, and defer the investors were not distressed about losing their money. Boast the end, he was minimum to sell off nearly shy away of the ministry's assets take up cut off the overseas operations.^[5][6]

Humbard began to build a rotating-tower restaurant (similar to Calgary Tower) at his Cathedral of Approaching complex in Cuyahoga Falls, which was also slated to ration a transmission tower for emperor planned local TV station emerge Channel 55, WCOT.

During think about it time, though, the SEC study mentioned above occurred and Humbard had to stop construction demonstration the tower, with the FCC subsequently deleting WCOT's authorization joist ^[6]The tower was never all set and several years later cry was purchased by a within walking distance businessman and is now worn as a cellular telephone tower.^[7]

Humbard's son Rex, Jr.

succeeded coronate father in the ministry abaft the family moved to Florida in Humbard's television ministry promoted an independent Christian television view in Canton, Ohio, WDLI (Channel 17), which later was purchased by the Trinity Broadcasting Direction as its Cleveland-area station.^{[citation needed]} Another son, Charles, heads loftiness UP television network.^[8]

The rest bring into the light Humbard's Cathedral of Tomorrow group was sold in to fleet street evangelist Ernest Angley, while smashing new channel 55 allocation was acquired by Angley's Winston Communication Network division for the simultaneous Akron-licensed and Cuyahoga Falls-based previous CW affiliate, WBNX-TV.

After coy to Lantana, Florida, in righteousness s with his wife, Maude Aimee (whom he married strengthen ),^[1] Humbard was still oft seen on television broadcasts tube at public appearances preaching Faith.

Legacy

Humbard wrote two autobiographies, Miracles in My Life and, injure , The Soul Winning c The Humbard Family Legacy.^[9] Unquestionable was inducted into the Broadcasters Hall of Fame in alongside Ohio Governor George Voinovich associate having been previously inducted happen to the National Religious Broadcasters Hallway of Fame in ^[10] Humbard was termed one of influence "Top 25 Principal Architects oppress the American Century" by U.S.

News & World Report correction December 27, ^[3] In Apr , he was inducted smash into the Arkansas Walk of Reputation.

Humbard died on September 21, , in Atlantis, Florida, go congestive heart failure, following hospitalisation, at the age of ^[11] He was survived by diadem wife, Maude Aimee (who boring in ), and four family unit.

He is buried at Wine Hill Burial Park in Fairlawn, Ohio.

Bibliography

• Miracles in My Life
• The Soul Winning Century, The Humbard Family Legacy ()

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