Jack Coe
| Jack Coe | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Jack Coe March 11, 1918 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. U.S. |
| Died | December 16, 1956 (aged 38) Dallas, Texas, US |
| Cause of death | Bulbar polio |
| Occupation | Evangelist/faith healer |
| Title | Head of Dallas Revival Center |
| Spouse(s) | Juanita Geneva Scott Coe |
| Children | Six |
Jack Coe (March 11, 1918 – December 16, 1956) was one of the first faith healers in the United States with a touring tent ministry after World War II. Coe was ordained in the Assemblies of God in 1944, and began to preach while still serving in World War II. In the following twelve years, travelled the U.S. organizing tent revivals to spread his message. Coe was hospitalized and died from bulbar polio in December 1956.
According his obituary in the Charleston Gazette, "Coe was frequently the center of controversy," and "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 (Mays) Coe of Pleasantville, Venango County, Pennsylvania, and Oklahoma City. His parents later placed him in an orphanage, where he stayed until about 1935, when at age 17 Jack left the orphanage. A heavy drinker, he joined the Army after World War II began. He later claimed to have experienced a miracle during his time in the military which caused him to become a Christian minister. Coe had close ties with the Assemblies of God, and preached several meetings while he was in the Army. He was ordained in 1944 and then began his career as an itinerant preacher.
Coe was dynamic and enthusiastic in his beliefs. Coe knew Oral Roberts and was taken in by the size of Robert’s revival tent. One day Coe went to a Roberts’s tent meeting and measured his tent. He then ordered a larger one. Coe was not bashful about announcing that his tent was the largest in the world–bigger, he claimed, than the one Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus used.
In 1950, Coe left as co-editor of the Voice of Healing magazine and began his own magazine, which he called the Herald of Healing. Coe had published in fellow evangelist Gordon Lindsay's on The Voice of Healing, but Jack wanted his own magazine. The magazine, by 1956, was circulating at around 250,000 copies. Coe also opened a children's orphanage and built a large church building known as the Dallas Revival Center.
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