Fifty-eight years. That’s how long ago it’s been since Brother Jimmy Swaggart’s father, also a minister, came into my small Ferriday law office, where I was a sole practitioner, and asked me to incorporate his church.
He told me about his son who had recently been ordained as a Pentecostal minister in the Assemblies of the Lord Jesus Christ branch of the church.
Young Brother Swaggart chose to be an evangelist, rather than establishing his own church. He preached in Pentecostal churches throughout northeast Louisiana for several years before deciding to move to Baton Rouge…