Paul Franklin Crouch (born March 30, 1934) is the American co-founder, chairman and president of the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), is the United States' largest Christian television network.. The network has grown to 47 satellite stations and 12,500 affiliates, reaching nearly 100,000,000 households globally.
Crouch, raised in Missouri, is the son of Pentecostal missionaries. He became interested in amateur radio at an early age and announc...
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Paul Franklin Crouch (born March 30, 1934) is the American co-founder, chairman and president of the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), is the United States' largest Christian television network.. The network has grown to 47 satellite stations and 12,500 affiliates, reaching nearly 100,000,000 households globally.
Crouch, raised in Missouri, is the son of Pentecostal missionaries. He became interested in amateur radio at an early age and announced he would use such technology to "send the Gospel around the world." He attended the Central Bible Institute in Springfield, Missouri. In the early 1950s, he worked for the Assemblies of God as a film librarian. He married his wife, Jan, in 1958. His sons are Matt Crouch, a director of Christian films, and Paul Crouch Jr., the heir apparent to the ministry. In 1961, he was hired to run the Assemblies of God's broadcast production facility in Burbank, California, and from there he left to start TBN (originally Trinity Broadcasting Systems)...
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