18 Facts About Jack Coe

Jack Coe was an American Pentecostal evangelist, nicknamed "the man of reckless faith".

Jack Coe was one of the first faith healers in the United States with a touring tent ministry after World War II.

Jack Coe was frequently the center of controversy, preached extensively through the South, and employed some 80 persons.

Jack Coe was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the seventh child of George Henry and Blanche Zoe Coe of Pleasantville, Venango County, Pennsylvania, and Oklahoma City.

Jack Coe later claimed to have experienced a miracle during his time in the military that caused him to become a Christian minister.

Jack Coe had close ties with the Assemblies of God, and preached several meetings while he was in the Army.

Jack Coe was ordained in 1944, and began his career as an itinerant preacher.

Jack Coe knew Oral Roberts and was impressed by the size of Roberts' revival tent.

One day Jack Coe went to a Roberts' tent meeting and measured the tent; he then ordered a larger one.

Jack Coe was not bashful about announcing that his tent was the largest in the world; bigger, he claimed, than the one Ringling Bros.

Jack Coe was co-editor of fellow evangelist Gordon Lindsay's Voice of Healing magazine until 1950, when he began his own magazine, the Herald of Healing.

Jack Coe opened a children's orphanage and built a large church building known as the Dallas Revival Center.

Jack Coe was accused of having an extravagant lifestyle and home.

Jack Coe charged that the Assemblies of God were "fighting divine healing".

Jack Coe taught and preached fervently on divine healing, claiming to have healed visitors to his revivals.

Jack Coe then told the parents to remove the boy's leg braces.

Jack Coe returned to Texas and underwent a tracheotomy to help his breathing after his muscles became paralyzed.

Jack Coe was diagnosed with bulbar polio, and died a few weeks later at Dallas' Parkland Hospital on December 16,1956.