Rev Jerry Falwell
Falwell led to the services of Thomas Road Baptist Church, a megachurch Lynchburg, Virginia. He changed affiliations Baptist Bible Fellowship International to the mostly conservative Southern Baptist Convention and ended his identification with fundamentalism for Evangelicalism." Falwell was born in Lynchburg, Va. to Helen Carey and Hezekiah Falwell. His father was a businessman and one-time bootlegger, which was not very religious.
…His grandfather was a strong atheist." Falwell was born with a double brother, Gene. Falwell married the former Macel Pate "April 12 1958 and had two children (one, , Jerry Falwell, Jr. is a lawyer and the other, Jonathan, a pastor) and a daughter (Jeannie, a Surgeon ). Before the founding of their church, attended Falwell Lynchburg College Lynchburg, Va., but left during his second year. then transferred to and graduated from Baptist Bible College Springfield, Missouri in 1956.
Although he sometimes used the title "Doctor, " Falwell concluded any livestock doctorate. He held three honorary degrees: an honorary Doctor of Divinity Tennessee Temple Theological Seminary, an honorary Doctor of Letters California Graduate School of Theology and honorary Doctor of Law at the Central University in Seoul South Korea." In 1956, at age 22, Falwell became the founding pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church Lynchburg (TRBC). In 1971, Jerry Falwell founded Liberty University, a Christian liberal arts college in Lynchburg, Virginia.