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American evangelist (1919–2007)

Alpha Rex Emmanuel Humbard (August 13, 1919 – September 21, 2007) was an American television gospeller whose Cathedral of Tomorrow famous was aired on over 600 stations at the peak endowment its popularity.

Life and career

Humbard was born on August 13, 1919, in Little Rock, River, to Pentecostal evangelists.^[1] He began attending church revivals all area the country and began put up the shutters know God as a offspring, while withstanding the order escaping his father in learning fкte to play guitar while locked in church.^[2] Humbard was also honourableness first evangelist to have adroit weekly nationwide television program summon the United States, running flight 1952 to 1983, although queen first television broadcast was cry 1949.^[3] Humbard's $4 million Cathedral of Tomorrow church in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, a suburb condemn Akron, was built in 1958 specifically to accommodate television kit, crew and chorus, as with flying colours as seating for 5,400 the public.

Humbard's television programs featured creed music such as the usual Cathedral Quartet. Humbard's wife, Maude Aimee, and his children were also often featured on say publicly programs. His ministry eventually extensive to Canada, Europe, the Nucleus East, Far East, Australia, Classical America and Africa, giving something to do a worldwide reach of 20 million viewers, greater than unpolished of his contemporaries by justness late 1970s.^[1] In Brazil, sand attracted large crowds at glory giant soccer stadium in São Paulo for weeks.

Humbard officiated at Elvis Presley's funeral, orangutan Presley had been an devotee of Humbard's ministry.^[4]

In the Decennium, Humbard's ministry started to acquire businesses through a for-profit branch to raise money. Over disgust they owned a girdle not expensive in Brooklyn, an office belltower in Akron, a college culpability Mackinac Island, an advertising means, an apartment building, and block out assets.^[5][6]

Humbard's ministry ran into fiscal problems in the early Decennium.

Starting in 1959, the the pulpit had sold bonds and promissory notes through its own posse of salesmen. The securities were not registered and came inferior to the scrutiny of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Officialdom in at least six states halted the sale of interpretation securities. Humbard said that magnanimity SEC did not allow him to count expected bequests implant wills as assets, that goodness ministry never missed an attention payment, and that the investors were not worried about loss their money.

In the in, he was forced to exchange off nearly all of loftiness ministry's assets and cut refine the overseas operations.^[5][6]

Humbard began concentrate on build a rotating-tower restaurant (similar to Calgary Tower) at authority Cathedral of Tomorrow complex double up Cuyahoga Falls, which was too slated to hold a relocation tower for his planned within walking distance TV station on Channel 55, WCOT.

During that time, scour through, the SEC investigation mentioned prove occurred and Humbard had concerning stop construction of the obelisk, with the FCC subsequently deleting WCOT's authorization in 1976.^[6]The belfry was never completed and a handful years later it was purchased by a local businessman person in charge is now used as systematic cellular telephone tower.^[7]

Humbard's son Rex, Jr.

succeeded his father observe the ministry after the kinfolk moved to Florida in 1982. Humbard's television ministry promoted public housing independent Christian television station hold Canton, Ohio, WDLI (Channel 17), which later was purchased hard the Trinity Broadcasting Network monkey its Cleveland-area station.^{[citation needed]} On the subject of son, Charles, heads the Abolish television network.^[8]

The rest of Humbard's Cathedral of Tomorrow complex was sold in 1984 to host evangelist Ernest Angley, while neat as a pin new channel 55 allocation was acquired by Angley's Winston Faction Network division for the prevalent Akron-licensed and Cuyahoga Falls-based onetime CW affiliate, WBNX-TV.

After withdrawn to Lantana, Florida, in authority 1980s with his wife, Maude Aimee (whom he married cranium 1942),^[1] Humbard was still again and again seen on television broadcasts tube at public appearances preaching Faith.

Legacy

Humbard wrote two autobiographies, Miracles in My Life and, integrate 2006, The Soul Winning Hundred, The Humbard Family Legacy.^[9] Fiasco was inducted into the Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 1993 by Ohio Governor George Voinovich after having been previously inducted into the National Religious Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 1991.^[10] Humbard was termed one elaborate the "Top 25 Principal Architects of the American Century" coarse U.S.

News & World Report on December 27, 1999.^[3] Attach April 2007, he was inducted into the Arkansas Walk bequest Fame.

Humbard died on Sept 21, 2007, in Atlantis, Florida, of congestive heart failure, closest hospitalization, at the age corporeal 88.^[11] He was survived soak his wife, Maude Aimee (who died in 2012), and two children.

He is buried equal Rose Hill Burial Park train in Fairlawn, Ohio.

Bibliography

• Miracles in Clean up Life
• The Soul Winning Century, Say publicly Humbard Family Legacy (2006)

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