Remembering Brother Jimmy Swaggart

Fifty Eight years. That’s how long ago it’s been since
Brother Jimmy Swaggart’s father, also a minister, came
into my small Ferriday law office where I was a sole practitioner,
and asked me to incorporate his church. He
told me about his son who had recently been ordained as
a Pentecostal minister in the Assemblies of the
Lord Jesus Christ branch of the church.
Young Brother Swaggart chose to be an
evangelist, rather than establishing his own
church. He preached in Pentecostal churches
throughout northeast Louisiana for several
years before deciding to move to Baton Rouge.
He asked me if I was willing to move to Baton
Rouge and do legal work for what he told me
would be a major evangelical effort to build a
full ministry that would include a high school
and a college. I passed on the opportunity and
felt he might be too much of a dreamer for me. Needless
to say, his legal needs prove to be great in the years to
come.