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Article: PTL Fund Raising: A Tangled Saga Series: The Jim & Tammy Show Series Number: 2/2
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- The Washington Post
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- May 23, 1987
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Last year, television evangelist Jim Bakker began a new crusade:
to raise money for a home for handicapped children on the grounds of
Heritage USA, his Christian family resort here. To make his appeal
to viewers, Bakker introduced them to Kevin: a 17-year-old boy,
victim of a rare bone disease, who has grown to a height of only 22
inches.
The home was dubbed "Kevin's House."
By all accounts, it was a highly effective fund-raising tactic
for the founder of the PTL ministry. Money poured in for the home,
and last July 4 it was ready at a cost of more than $1 million-a
blue, gingerbread-style house with wheelchair ramps intended to house
eight disabled children.
But like so many of ...