2018年3月17日 · Jim Bakker’s theme park was like a Christian Disneyland. Here’s what happened to it. It was a chilly January night in 1987, and then-PTL president Jim Bakker had invited top leaders from York...

The PTL Club, also known as The Jim and Tammy Show, was a Christian television program that was first hosted by evangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, running from 1974 to 1989. The program was later known as PTL Today and as Heritage Today.

James Orsen Bakker (/ ˈbeɪkər /; [1] born January 2, 1940) is an American televangelist and convicted felon. Between 1974 and 1987, Bakker hosted the television program The PTL Club and its cable television platform, the PTL Satellite Network, with his then wife, Tammy Faye.

2023年7月3日 · Heritage USA Theme Park was an epic attraction that opened its doors in 1978. Less than a decade later, the annual attendance had exploded to a whopping six million visitors per year. The park was opened by famed televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, who had high hopes for the theme park, comparing it to a Christian Disneyland.

Heritage USA was an American Christian-themed water park, theme park and residential complex in Fort Mill, South Carolina, built by televangelist Jim Bakker and his wife Tammy Faye Bakker, founders of The PTL Club. The park, which occupied 2,300 acres (9.3 km 2; 3.6 sq mi), was built by church builder Roe Messner.

2019年12月20日 · By the mid-'70s, the Bakkers were becoming household names through their TV show, "The PTL Club" -- PTL stood for "Praise the Lord" or “People That Love.” Initially it aired on a small North Carolina station owned by media mogul Ted Turner.

2016年6月20日 · Based first in Charlotte, North Carolina, and then in Fort Mill, South Carolina, the PTL Club was one of the most successful ventures in televangelism for much of the 1970s and 1980s. PTL stood for both “Praise the Lord” and “People That Love.”

Now owned by Rick Joyner’s MorningStar Ministries, the heart of the property that was once home to Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker and PTL in Fort Mill, S.C., is a Christian hub again. Bakker once ...

2007年7月30日 · Falwell, who took over PTL in 1987 after the Bakkers had been forced out, died in May. The old PTL property has been sold to developers and to MorningStar Fellowship Church. Nearly all of the buildings left from Heritage USA, the …

1987年10月9日 · 1978: PTL, led by the Rev. Jim Bakker, a charismatic, or Pentecostal, minister in the Assemblies of God denomination, buys 1,100 acres in Fort Mill, S.C., spends $1 million on satellite time and...