![]() ![]() The church started a local television program then known as Daystar. His family settled in Dallas and built the Word of Faith Family Church, a small nondenominational charismatic church in Farmers Branch, in 1976. According to his autobiographical materials, Tilton had a conversion experience to evangelical Christianity the following year and began his ministry in 1974, taking his family on the road to, in his words, "preach this gospel of Jesus." Tilton preached to small congregations and revivals throughout Texas and Oklahoma. ![]() He married his first wife, Martha "Marte" Phillips, in 1968. He attended Cooke County Junior College and Texas Technological University. Robert Tilton was born in McKinney, Texas, on June 7, 1946. Tilton later returned to television on a new version of the program airing on BET and The Word Network. When ABC's Primetime Live raised questions about Tilton's fundraising practices, a series of investigations into the ministry were initiated, and Success-N-Life was taken off the air. At his ministry's peak in 1991, Tilton's infomercial-style program, Success-N-Life, aired in all 235 American television markets (on a daily basis in the majority of them) and brought in nearly $80 million per year it was described as "the fastest growing television ministry in America." Robert Tilton (born June 7, 1946) is an American televangelist and the former pastor of the Word of Faith Family Church in Farmers Branch, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. ![]()
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