Televangelists like Oral Roberts, Rex Humbard and Jimmy Swaggart used television to preach and raise money. Traveling evangelists like Billy Sunday and Dwight Moody would set up in a town and preach the gospel.Įvangelists like Norman Vincent Peale and Mary Baker Eddy took advantage of print media. With the dawn of the 20th century, Americans saw the birth of the tent revival. African-American pastors reached their congregations by promising community both on earth and in heaven. In the 19th century, evangelists combined their religious excitement with social causes like alcohol and slavery. The Great Awakening of the 1740s swept through the colonies, with evangelists like George Whitfield and Jonathan Edwards leading people to Christianity. Some of the country’s first settlers came for religious freedom. He later remarried his first wife.Įvangelists have been a part of American history from the start. They divorced in 2003, and he married a woman named Judy later that year. She’s also the mother of his three children. His daughter, Jennifer, is a wife and mother.ĭonnie Swaggart’s first marriage was to Debbie. His second son, Mathew, is a graphic artist. His oldest son, Gabriel, serves as a youth pastor at the Family Worship Center. Swaggart and his wife Debbie have three children and eight grandchildren. He often speaks at his father’s camp meetings. Swaggart is pastor of the Family Worship Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
He followed his father into ministry, but he hasn’t kept as high a profile as his dad. Donnie Swaggart is the only son of televangelist Jimmy Swaggart and his wife.
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