Lester Sumrall
Lester Frank Sumrall (* February 15, 1913 in New Orleans, † 28 April 1996) was an ordained American minister and founder of the Lesea, a Missionary and Radio Broadcasting Company.
Life
Sumrall was born to Betty and George Sumrall in New Orleans in the U.S. state of Louisiana. In 1930 he recovered miraculously from a tuberculosis disease and began to preach. He founded a church in Green Forest (Arkansas ) and was eventually ordained in the Pentecostal Assemblies of God - shaped church 1932 pastor. Sumrall then traveled as an evangelist in different countries. In the course of his journey activities, he started a church during a revival in the Philippines. On 30 September 1944 he married Louise Layman, with whom he had three sons. The couple settled in South Bend, where Sumrall founded a church named Cathedral of Praise.
His counselors were Alfred Howard Carter and Smith Wigglesworth.
Sumrall increasingly separated from the Assemblies of God Church. In 1957, Sumrall eventually founded the Lester Sumrall Evangelistic Association ( Lesea ), a Christian broadcasting company, the radio program WHME 103.1 and since the early 1970s and the television program World Harvest Florida Television ( WHFT ) sends among others since 1968. Lesea operates several radio and television stations, an orphanage, the World Harverst Bible College and is the editor of a magazine as the World Harvest. Sumrall is considered the " father of Christian television ." In 1973, he secured the license for the first 24-hour Christian television program at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and launched WHMB Christian Television in Noblesville (Indiana).
Sumrall died on 28 April 1996 at the age of 83 years.
Works
- Miracles Do not Just Happen, 1979
- The Gifts and Ministries of the Holy Spirit, 1982
- My Story to his Glory, 1983
- Faith to Change the World, 1983