Philpot Heritage
Ford Philpot founded the Ford Philpot Evangelistic Association in 1955 as a means to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This is our heritage.
Ford Philpot was born June 16, 1917, in Clay County, Kentucky. He dropped out of high school only weeks before graduation and moved to Cincinnati in search of work. While working back in Kentucky at Renfro Valley, he met Virginia Robinson, and they were married in 1940. In 1942 Ford joined the Marines and served three years overseas during World War II.
In 1947, as Philpot began to emerge from under alcoholism, he enrolled at Asbury College in Wilmore, Kentucky. At Asbury Philpot was given the opportunity to preach and found it to be his life calling. After graduating from Asbury in 1950, Philpot went on to seminary at Emory University and was ordained in the Methodist Church.
The Fort Wayne Crusade
This is the story of the Ford Philpot Crusade held in Fort Wayne, Indiana September 27 - October 11, 1964.
Philpot was widely known as a revival preacher. In his first 15 years of ministry, he preached over 600 crusades around the world. He also produced a 30-minute radio program with his friend, Herb Bowdoin, called "The Waves of Truth", which was broadcast throughout central Kentucky. In 1959, Bowdoin and Philpot began producing the first color religious television broadcast called "The Story", which ran for 30 years with more than 900 segments taped.
Ford Philpot died on March 9, 1992, at the age of 74.
