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Hour of Power | |
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Also known as | Hour of Power |
Genre | Protestant television |
Presented by |
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Opening theme | The Hymn of Joy |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 51 |
No. of episodes | 2,662 as of February 7, 2021 |
Production | |
Production locations | Irvine, California |
Running time | 60 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | First-run syndication |
Release | February 8, 1970 – present |
Hour of Power is a weekly American Evangelist television program broadcast from Shepherd's Grove Presbyterian Church in Irvine, California, near Los Angeles. It is one of the most watched religious broadcasts in the world, seen by approximately two million viewers. It was formerly broadcast from the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California.
The program was founded and first hosted by Robert H. Schuller. [1] It is currently hosted by Bobby Schuller, [2] who is Robert H. Schuller's grandson.
The program is normally one hour long, but some networks broadcast an edited 30-minute program.
The program first aired on February 8, 1970, as a church service of the Garden Grove Community Church (Reformed Church in America). By the 1980s, it was the most-watched weekly religious program in living rooms across America. [3] It was originally hosted by the elder Schuller; the younger Schuller hosted it from 2006 to 2008.
On July 9, 2008, the presidency of the church was shifted from Robert H. Schuller to his son-in-law, Jim Coleman. On October 26, 2008, it was announced that Schuller had removed his son, Robert A. Schuller, as teaching pastor, but allowed him to remain as the Crystal Cathedral's senior pastor. Robert H. Schuller said that he wanted to take the ministry in a different direction and for the foreseeable future would use guest speakers for the weekly services rather than his son. [4] Well-known speakers who were used in the early stages of the new format included Lee Strobel, John C. Maxwell, and Bill Hybels.[ citation needed ] On November 29, 2008, the church announced that the younger Schuller had resigned. [5]
On October 18, 2010, the board of the Crystal Cathedral Ministries filed for bankruptcy in Santa Ana, California. [6] [7]
In 2011, Crystal Cathedral Ministries reached an agreement to sell the Crystal Cathedral campus to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange for $57.5 million; the diocese's St. Callistus Parish would be transferred to the Crystal Cathedral campus, which was to be rededicated as Christ Cathedral following a renovation to convert it to the Catholic liturgy. [8] Meanwhile, the Diocese of Orange would offer Crystal Cathedral Ministries a long-term lease of the parish's former building, which was about one mile south of the Crystal Cathedral. [9] [10] [11]
On March 10, 2012, it was announced that Robert H. Schuller and his wife, Arvella, would be leaving the church. The following day their elder daughter, Sheila Schuller Coleman, announced at the morning service that she would also be leaving the church, therefore cutting all family ties with the Crystal Cathedral and Hour of Power. That week's broadcast would also be the program's final broadcast " [12] The ministry's successor, the Rev. Bill Bennett, said that the ministry would continue but using a more traditional service. [12]
In June 2012, the Rev. Bobby Schuller, the son of Robert A. Schuller, started preaching on a voluntary basis. In February 2013, Bobby Schuller was named as pastor for the Hour of Power.[ citation needed ]
Crystal Cathedral Ministries held its final service at its namesake on June 30, 2013, [13] after which it was renamed Shepherd's Grove and moved to the former St. Callistus Church on July 7, 2013. [11] The congregation merged with the Irvine Presbyterian Church in April 2018 after the land was sold to real estate developers. [14]
The program airs in the United States mainly using paid programming time on Freeform, TBN, and recently Daystar. along with about 100 stations through individual contracts. The program also airs over the American Forces Network.
In Canada it is carried on VisionTV.
In Europe it is broadcast on VOX in Austria, Germany and Switzerland, on RTL in the Netherlands and was formerly broadcast on Sky One in Ireland and the United Kingdom.
In the Middle East it is carried on METV in Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria.
In Australia, it is seen on the Australian Christian Channel and Network Ten. It is also broadcast weekly on radio.
It is broadcast in New Zealand on the Prime network and Shine TV.
It is broadcast in Hong Kong on NOW TV Channel 564, TVB Pearl, and Hong Kong Open TV.
The Hour of Power telecast, filmed in the Crystal Cathedral's main sanctuary, at one point attracted 1.3 million viewers from 156 countries. [15] Under current Pastor Bobby Schuller, the program attracted 2.2 million viewers worldwide each week.
Beginning in the late 1990s, the ministry struggled financially after it borrowed money to build a visitors' center.
The 2008 revenues for the program were nearly $5 million lower than revenues for 2007. As of early 2009, the church planned to sell more than $65 million worth of its Orange County property to pay off debt: [5] 150 acres (0.61 km2) in San Juan Capistrano, California, and an office building in Garden Grove, California. [16] Due to their financial situation, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange purchased the Garden Grove campus.
Robert Harold Schuller was an American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, author and 33rd Degree Freemason. In his five decades of television, Schuller was principally known for the weekly Hour of Power television program, which he began hosting in 1970 until his retirement in 2006. His grandson, Bobby Schuller, carries on the Hour of Power now airing for over fifty years. During his time as a minister, Schuller oversaw the construction of two churches in Garden Grove, CA. The first church built under his tenure was the Garden Grove Community Church chapel, which seated 500, and the second that he oversaw was the building of the much larger Crystal Cathedral, which has a seating capacity of 2,200.
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