Editing Jimmy Swaggart (section)

===Ordination and early career===
Preaching from a flatbed trailer donated to him, Swaggart began full-time evangelistic work in 1955. He began developing a revival-meeting following throughout the American South.  In 1960, he began recording gospel music record albums and transmitting on Christian radio stations. In 1961, Swaggart was ordained by the Assemblies of God; a year later he began his radio ministry. In the late 1960s, Swaggart founded what was then a small church named the Family Worship Center in [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana]]; the church eventually became district-affiliated with the Assemblies of God.{{citation needed|date=July 2023}}

In 1971, Swaggart began transmitting a weekly 30-minute telecast over various local television stations in Baton Rouge and also purchased a local AM radio station, WLUX (now [[WPFC (AM)|WPFC]]). The station broadcast Christian feature stories, preaching and teaching to various [[Christian fundamentalism|fundamentalist]] and Pentecostal denominations and playing [[Traditional black gospel|black gospel]], [[Southern gospel]], and inspirational music. Swaggart sold many of his radio stations gradually throughout the 1980s and early 1990s.{{citation needed|date=July 2023}}