Price then joined the Christian and Missionary Alliance at West Washington Community Church in 1965. In the early 1960s, Price served at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles. He then pastored an African Methodist Episcopal church in Val Verde, California from 1957 to 1959. Soon after becoming born again, Price claimed to have felt the call from God to go into the ministry, serving mostly part-time, while working as a paper cutter, as an assistant pastor in a Baptist church from 1955 to 1957. At one of these services, he received Jesus Christ as his personal savior. Price began attending these services with his wife. However, after their marriage, he stopped attending church regularly until a group of Los Angeles-area churches began sponsoring a week of old-fashioned tent revivals in the Crenshaw area. While courting Betty, his high school sweetheart, he began attending church services with her. At the time Price met his future wife Betty, his parents had stopped practicing the religion and were also outspoken against all organized religions. He later received an honorary diploma from the Rhema Bible Training Center (1976) and an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Oral Roberts University (1982).īoth of his parents had once been practicing Jehovah's Witnesses. Frederick attended McKinley Elementary School in Santa Monica, Foshay Junior High, Manual Arts High School and Dorsey High School in Los Angeles, and received two years of schooling at Los Angeles City College. Price was born in 1932 in Santa Monica, California, a Los Angeles suburb, the eldest son of Winifred and Frederick Price, Sr., who owned a janitorial service in West Los Angeles. He was known for his Ever Increasing Faith ministries broadcast, which aired weekly on television and radio. (Janu– February 12, 2021) was an American televangelist and author who was the founder and pastor of Crenshaw Christian Center (CCC), located in South Los Angeles, California.
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