WIKI: Toufik Benedictus "Benny" Hinn (born 3 December 1952) is an Israeli televangelist, best known for his regular "Miracle Crusades"—revival meeting or faith healing summits that are usually held in stadiums in major cities, which are later broadcast worldwide on his television program, This Is Your Day.
On
moving to the United States, Hinn traveled to Orlando,
Florida, where he founded the Orlando Christian Center in 1983.
Eventually, he began claiming that God was using him as a conduit for
healings, and began holding healing services in his church. These new
"Miracle Crusades" were soon held at large stadiums and
auditoriums across the United States and the world. During the early
1990s, he launched a new daily talk show called This
Is Your Day,
which to this day airs clips of supposed miracles from Hinn's Miracle
Crusades. The program premiered on the Trinity
Broadcasting Network of Paul
Crouch,
who would become one of Hinn's most outspoken defenders and allies.
Hinn's ministry began to rapidly grow from there, winning praise as
well as criticism from fellow Christian leaders.
In
1999, he stepped down as pastor of the Orlando Christian Center,
moving his ministry's administrative headquarters to Grapevine,
Texas, a suburb of Fort
Worth,
while hosting This
Is Your Day from
a television studio in Orange
County,
California, where he now lives with his family. His former church was
renamed Faith World Church under the leadership of Clint Brown, who
merged his Orlando church with Hinn's.