Kathryn Kuhlman

Birthplace — Concordia, Missouri

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Excerpt:  Kathryn Johanna Kuhlman was born on May 9, 1907 in Concordia, Missouri, where her father was mayor. As a teenager, Kuhlman had a “deep spiritual experience”, otherwise referred to as her being “converted” at age 14 “at an evangelistic meeting in a small Methodist church”. Kuhlman's first sermon was in a run-down pool hall in Boise, Idaho, in a sequence of events that has Kuhlman's independent ministry beginning in that year.
Kuhlman had a weekly TV program in the 1960s

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Looking west; Central Park is in the background.

and 1970s called I Believe In Miracles, which aired nationally. She also had a 30-minute nationwide radio program, which featured sermons and frequent excerpts from her faith healing services in music and message. Her foundation was established in 1954, and its Canadian branch in 1970.
By 1970, she had moved to Los Angeles, conducting services for thousands of people hoping to be healed. She was friendly with Christian television evangelist Pat Robertson and made guest appearances at his Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) and on the network's flagship program The 700 Club.
In July 1975, a doctor diagnosed Kuhlman with a minor heart flare-up; in November, she had a relapse. As a result, Kuhlman underwent open-heart surgery in Tulsa, Oklahoma, during which she died on February 20, 1976. The Kathryn Kuhlman Foundation continued, but due to lack of funding, it terminated its nationwide radio broadcast in 1982. The foundation shut down altogether in April 2016. A plaque in her honor is in the main city park in Concordia, Missouri.

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Looking east; South Main Street crosses in the background. The same inscription appears on both sides of the marker.

(Forest Lawn Memorial Park Glendale, Los Angeles County, California, USA) Excerpt:  In 1948 she moved to Pittsburgh establishing her residence as well as a ministry headquarters while conducting services in Carnegie Hall and the First Presbyterian Church. She was featured in a seven-page article in Redbook magazine and was catapulted into the national limelight. This led her to further expand to Southern California where her congregation met at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium which proved too small. Moving to the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium, she regularly filled its 7,000 seats for ten years while continuing to live in Pittsburgh and conducting religious meetings and even expanding into television producing more than five hundred telecasts for the BAS network. Her strenuous schedule took its toll as she was diagnosed with a heart condition. Kathryn preached her last message in 1975 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Three weeks later, she lay dying at Hillcrest Medical Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma after open heart surgery. With Oral and Evelyn Roberts at her side, she was gone at age sixty-eight.
—Biography by Donald Greyfield