Article: `Jimmy Swaggart Ministries Is Accountable'

As a member of the Board of Directors of Jimmy Swaggart Ministries and as a source for Saundra Saperstein's article, "Spreading a $600,000-a-Day Message: Swaggart's Tax-Exempt Ministry Is Family Enterprise" {June 7}, I want to respond to the article's erroneous statements that Jimmy Swaggart is "not strictly accountable" for expenditures and that he is "not accustomed" to providing financial information.

In fact, both Jimmy Swaggart Ministries and Jimmy Swaggart are more accountable than a local pastor, both to parishioners and to the church hierarchy. Furthermore, they have long histories of providing detailed financial information to the various publics involved in their evangelistic ...

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