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With his parents, Swaggart attended a small, 25-member Assemblies of God church in Ferriday.
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He also had a sister, Jeanette Ensminger (1942–1999). The extended family had a complex network of interrelationships: "cousins and in-laws and other relatives married each other until the clan was entwined like a big, tight ball of rubber bands." He is the cousin of rock'n'roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis and country music star Mickey Gilley. They were related by marriage, as Willie's maternal uncle, Elmo Lewis, was married to Minnie's sister Mamie. Jimmy Lee Swaggart was born on March 15, 1935, in Ferriday, Louisiana, to fiddle player and Pentecostal preacher Willie Leon (known as "Sun" or "Son") Swaggart and Minnie Bell, daughter of sharecropper William Herron. As a result of the scandals, Swaggart temporarily stepped down as the head of Jimmy Swaggart Ministries. Sexual scandals with prostitutes in the late 1980s and early 1990s led the Assemblies of God to defrock him. He currently owns and operates the SonLife Broadcasting Network and Family Worship Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. At its height in the 1980s, his telecast was transmitted to over 3,000 stations and cable systems each week. and on 78 channels in 104 other countries, and over the Internet. The weekly Jimmy Swaggart Telecast and A Study in the Word programs are broadcast throughout the U.S.
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Swaggart's TV ministry, which began in 1971, has a viewing audience both in the U.S. Jimmy Lee Swaggart ( born March 15, 1935) is an American Pentecostal evangelist. Mickey Gilley (cousin) Jerry Lee Lewis (cousin) The Jimmy Swaggart Telecast (1971–present), SonLife Broadcasting Network (2007-present) Evangelist, singer, author, pastor, pianist