Swaggart worked several part-time odd jobs to support his young family and also began singing Southern Gospel music at various churches.
In 1952, aged 17, Swaggart married 15-year-old Frances Anderson, whom he met in church in Wisner, Louisiana while he was playing music with his father, who pastored the Assembly of God Church there.
With his parents, Swaggart attended small Assemblies of God churches in Ferriday and Wisner. He also had a sister, Jeanette Ensminger (1942–1999). Swaggart is the cousin of rockabilly pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis and country music star Mickey Gilley. 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". Swaggart's parents were related by marriage, as Son Swaggart's maternal uncle, Elmo Lewis, was married to Minnie Herron'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 Herron, daughter of sharecropper William Herron. Swaggart is widely known for his 19 prostitution scandals. Swaggart is the senior pastor of the Family Worship Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Jimmy Swaggart Ministries owns and operates the SonLife Broadcasting Network (SBN). He is the author of the "Expositor's Study Bible," 13 Study Guides and 30 Commentaries on the Bible.Jimmy Lee Swaggart ( / ˈ s w æ ɡ ər t/ born March 15, 1935) is an American Pentecostal preacher, televangelist, gospel music recording artist, and Christian author. Swaggart is the author of several Christian works offered through his ministry, as well as an autobiography To Cross a River and a personal account of the 1988 scandal The Cup Which My Father Hath Given Me: A Biblical Revelation of Personal Spiritual Warfare. The weekly "Jimmy Swaggart Telecast" and "A Study in the Word" programs are seen nationwide and abroad on 78 channels in 104 countries as well as live over the internet. Swaggart's television ministry that began in 1975 continues today airing nationally and internationally to a potential viewing audience of over 80 million. Swaggart's telecasts were seen by more than 8 million people in the United States and by more than 500 million people worldwide. According to the official website for Jimmy Swaggart Ministries, his 1980's telecast was transmitted to over 3,000 stations and cable systems each week. He has preached to crowds around the world and pioneered televangelism through his weekly telecast. Jimmy Lee Swaggart is a non-denominational American pastor, teacher, singer, pianist, and televangelist.
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