14 Facts About Robb Thompson

Robert D Thompson was born on April 1953 and is the founder and president of Family Harvest International, a worldwide network of Christian congregations.

Robb Thompson is the founder of Family Harvest Church in Tinley Park, Illinois, a racially diverse church with over 4,000 members.

Robb Thompson moved to Homer Township, Illinois, where he sought "practical answers to life's problems and a real personal relationship with Jesus Christ", and began considering other denominations.

Robb Thompson stated that he had a transformative experience on October 28,1975, where he was "unplugged and reengineered and then plugged in again to Christ" and became a Baptist for several years.

Robb Thompson was given an honorary doctoral degree from Life Christian University, an unaccredited institution and diploma mill, based in Tampa, Florida.

Robb Thompson remained the pastor of the center through the late 1990s.

Robb Thompson pastored the House of Glory church in the 1980s, in Orland Park, Illinois, and held regular Bible study groups.

Robb Thompson is the founder of the nondenominational Family Harvest Church in Tinley Park, Illinois, a member of the Family Harvest International network.

In 1986, in an effort to promote that Halloween is "historically evil" and harmful to children, Robb Thompson's church scheduled a "Hallelujah Party" in its place on October 31.

Family Harvest Church's ministers preached regularly about the risk of a "Y2K apocalypse" during 1998, relating it to Robb Thompson's published interpretation of the Bible.

For Christmas 2005, Robb Thompson arranged the donation of over 100,000 articles of clothing, toys, and other goods to Miracle Centre Cathedral, a Ugandan cathedral run by senior pastor Robert Kayanja that is claimed to be the biggest auditorium in East Africa.

In 2009, Robb Thompson founded "City Harvest", a Family Harvest Church ministry in northwest suburban Chicago.

In early 2011, the Robb Thompson Ministries hosted the "Dancing for the Stars" dinner-dance fundraising event in Orland Hills, Illinois.

Robb Thompson is Founder of the International College of Excellence, a Christian university dedicated to teaching and training of new pastors "to maximize their personal potential and equipping tomorrow's leaders".