Crystal Cathedral

• Crystal Cathedral to File Bankruptcy Exit Plan

GARDEN GROVE, Calif. - The Southern California megachurch founded by one of the nation's pioneering televangelists, the Rev. Robert H. Schuller, filed a bankruptcy plan Friday that would pull the Crystal Cathedral out of crushing debt by selling its sprawling campus and famous, glass-spired sanctuary to an unidentified real estate investment group. The church would lease back most of its core buildings under the plan, which must be approved by a bankruptcy judge, so worshippers and visitors won't notice any changes in services or outreach. The church's popular, decades-old televangelist program "Hour of Power" broadcasts also would continue, the church said.

• Charleston Gazette
• May 31, 2011

• Crystal Cathedral Files for Bankruptcy

GARDEN GROVE, Calif. - Crystal Cathedral filed for bankruptcy on Monday in Southern California after months of trying to overcome mounting debt. The megachurch, birthplace of the "Hour of Power" televangelist broadcast, announced its filing as it struggled to emerge from debt estimated earlier this year at $55 million.

• Charleston Gazette
• October 19, 2010

• Petersburg Native Preaches at Crystal Cathedral

On Sunday, July 3, Petersburg native Harold C. Shaw delivered the message at the Crystal Cathedral in Los Angeles, Calif. Shaw, the son of the late Oliver and Peggy Shaw, has been a member of the Crystal Cathedral since 1982. Shortly after joining the church, he and his wife taught the first-sixth grade Sunday school class for four years. He joined the Friendship Fellowship class where he eventually became class leader. Also, he was honored to be president of The Jethros, an organization that affected the direction and decisions for the growth of the Friendship Fellowship class.

• Progress - Index, The; Petersburg, Va.
• July 16, 2011

• Crystal Cathedral Crumbling -- Calif. Megachurch Files for Bankruptcy

GARDEN GROVE, Calif. - Capitalizing on the emerging car culture of Southern California in the 1950s, Rev. Robert Schuller started a drive-in church and built it into an international televangelist empire, symbolized by the soaring glass Crystal Cathedral and its weekly "Hour of Power" show. Now Schuller's life's work is crumbling.

• The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current)
• October 25, 2010

• Father to Son — Schuller Keeps Ministry of 10,000-Member Crystal Cathedral in the Family

GARDEN GROVE, Calif. -- Robert A. Schuller remembers working hard as a child for his father's fledgling church, cranking out Sunday programs on a mimeograph machine and spending hours tiling the floor of a new church building. Now, decades later, the younger Schuller is taking on his father's legacy -- and adding a few modern twists of his own. Schuller, 51, was installed last month as senior pastor at the 10,000-member Crystal Cathedral in a ceremony beamed live to millions watching the church's weekly televised service, the "Hour of Power.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• February 25, 2006

• Dancers to Perform at the Crystal Cathedral

Few nativity scenes are as big and involved as "Glory of Christmas," the annual production that brings more than 100 dancers, flying angels and live animals to the Crystal Cathedral. This year, two principal dancers, Laura Alexich, 20, and Miranda Farmer, 21, hail from Rancho Cucamonga.

• Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
• November 09, 2007

• Crystal Cathedral Makes Cuts

GARDEN GROVE, Calif. - Blaming a struggling U.S. economy, the megachurch founded by Robert H. Schuller Sr. is pulling its TV program "Hour of Power" from some stations and taking other measures to offset a nearly $8 million drop in revenue. The Crystal Cathedral's "Hour of Power," which has aired for 40 years, will continue to appear on cable networks such as Lifetime and TBN, and on broadcast TV in markets including California, Colorado, Florida and Ohio, said John Charles, director of development and public relations.

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• January 31, 2010

• At Crystal Cathedral, Reflections

So, after almost 30 years, I got to visit the Rev. Robert Schuller's famous Crystal Cathedral in Southern California. When it first went up, I promised myself a pilgrimage.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• May 16, 2009

• The Apostle of 'possibility thinking': the Rev. Robert H. Schuller has delivered his message of hope from a drive-in theater and a Crystal Cathedral; today, his 'Self-Esteem Theology' reaches 30 million people worldwide.

In the same year the first moving images were broadcast on a television set, a devout couple on a farm in Alton, Iowa, had a baby son. Like all parent...

• Success
• Nbr. 2008, August 2008

• Ministry to Move On Without Crystal Namesake: ; Sale of Church has Some Worried About the Future

SANTA ANA, California - The sale of the Crystal Cathedral to the Catholic church could mark an end to the storied televangelist ministry broadcast around the world that came crashing down in hard times. While the church's spiritual leaders vow to carry on in a new location, the cathedral's own financial expert says it is impossible to see the future once the congregation loses its famed, glass- spired home.

• Sunday Gazette-Mail
• November 21, 2011