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Jan Crouch (born Jan Bethany, 1937) is the co-founder, vice-president and director of programming of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, or TBN, the world's largest Christian television network. She is the daughter of an Assemblies of God pastor. She married her current husband, Paul, in 1958. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... 1937 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Trinity Broadcasting Network, or TBN, is the worlds largest Christian television network, with a larger U.S. viewership than its three main competitor networks combined. ... As a noun, Christian is an appellation and moniker deriving from the appellation Christ, which many people associate exclusively with Jesus of Nazareth. ... A television network is a distribution network for television content whereby a central operation provides programming for many television stations. ... The Assemblies of God is the worlds largest Pentecostal Protestant Christian denomination. ... Paul Crouch (born 1934) is the co-founder, chairman and president of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, or TBN, the worlds largest Christian television network. ... 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


Crouch claims God resurrected a pet chicken of hers when she was a child. Others have questioned her claim, arguing that "resurrecting" "dead" chickens is a well known party trick. This trick is done by stroking the chicken slowly and rhythmically along the back. This causes the chicken to play dead, probably a "playing dead" trick to fool predators. After a few minutes, the chicken will seem to come back to life. The term God is capitalized in the English language as a proper noun when used to refer to a specific monotheistic concept of a Supreme Being in accordance with Christian, Jewish (sometimes as G-d - cf. ... A picture of a man with a domesticated dog A pet is an animal that is kept by humans for companionship and enjoyment, as opposed to livestock, which are kept for economic reasons. ... Binomial name Gallus gallus (Linnaeus, 1758) A chicken (Gallus gallus) is a type of domesticated bird which is often raised as a type of poultry. ... A male Caucasian toddler child A child (plural: children) is a young human. ...


In 2003, Crouch underwent regular surgery. After the surgery, she believed her recovery to be a miracle from God. 2003(MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A typical modern surgery operation For other meanings of the word, see Surgery (disambiguation) Surgery (from the Greek cheirourgia - lit. ... According to many religions, a miracle, derived from the old Latin word miraculum meaning something wonderful, is a striking interposition of divine intervention by God in the universe by which the operations of the ordinary course of Nature are overruled, suspended, or modified. ...


In the course of a legal proceeding, Crouch in 2001 testified that she did not know she was a corporate officer and could not recall the last board meeting she attended. Although she stars with her husband in TBN programming, former employees of TBN allege she is essentially estranged from him and lives separately. Former employees also claim she has a penchant for expensive antiques. 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... A board of directors is a group of individuals chosen by the stockholders of a company to promote their interests through the governance of the company. ... Antiques (Latin antiquus, old) are objects which have reached an age which makes them a witness of a previous era in human society. ...


The Chronicle of Philanthropy in 2004 reported Crouch's annual personal income as $361,000. The network reports that during the first twenty years of the network's operation, she was paid roughly one-tenth her current income, with the amounts rising in the past ten years as she approached retirement. In September 2004 the Los Angeles Times characterized her lifestyle as a "life of luxury". Retirement is the status of a worker who has stopped working. ... 2004 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December See also: September 2004 in sports Deaths in September • 27 Tsai Wan-lin • 24 Françoise Sagan • 20 Brian Clough • 18 Russ Meyer • 15 Johnny Ramone • 12 Fred Ebb • 11 Peter VII of Alexandria • 8 Richard Girnt... The Los Angeles Times (also known as the LA Times) is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California and distributed throughout the western United States. ... A luxury good is a good at the highest end of the market in terms of quality and price. ...


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Crouch, raised in Missouri, is the son of Pentecostal missionaries.
Crouch and many of the preachers who appear on Trinity Broadcasting have garnered much criticism over their style of fundraising, promising donating viewers that God will provide them with wealth and material pleasures as a reward.
Crouch also received criticism in 2001 from grieving families and several pastors for using fresh images from the September 11 terrorist attacks on an on-air TBN teaser for the sequel to the Omega Code film version, Megiddo.
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