GLOBAL PRAYER NETWORK: TBN Co-Founder Jan Crouch suffers massive stroke and may not recover

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TBN Co-Founder Jan Crouch suffers massive stroke and may not recover

By Dan Wooding, Founder of ASSIST News Service

ORLANDO, FL (ANS – May 29 2016) – TBN co-founder, Jan Crouch, 78, has suffered a massive stroke in the Orlando, Florida, area and is now being treated by doctors as her family care for her.

She suffered the stroke on Wednesday evening (May 25th) and was rushed into a local hospital where she is being treated.

However, Charisma News has said that Christian recording artist, Carman, posted on his Facebook page Saturday that recovery from a significant stroke is “unlikely” for Jan Crouch.

“The official word is out ... and after careful medical evaluation recovery of any kind is unlikely,” Carman's Facebook post read.

Carman said the Crouches built the “greatest Christian network of preaching the gospel in history.” In recent years, Carman suffered through a bout with cancer and it was Jan Crouch who supported him emotionally and financially.

“Jan is the president and is totally irreplaceable,” Carman's Facebook post read. “I've been close to her for 40 years. She is family to me. We have won countless souls to Christ together through that network. She is the best friend you can ever have when you’re going through a crisis and feel like everyone has abandoned you.

“Example: When I went through 10 months of cancer treatment and sent out 600 letters to 600 churches I've ministered at for support, and not one responded, it was Jan who paid my bills so I could focus on my fight with cancer. Her words to me was, ‘Just get well.’”

Charisma said that the TBN family has been asking for miracle healing prayers for the Christian media pioneer since her hospitalization.

The Crouch's oldest son, Paul Jr., made this post on Facebook: “Please bombard heaven for my mother, Jan Crouch. She's in the hospital in Orlando and needs a miracle.”

The younger son, Matt Crouch, posted on TBN's Facebook page on Saturday: “Thank you for joining your faith with us and agreeing for our precious mother, Jan Crouch, as she receives comfort from Jesus and ministering angels from a life-threatening stroke. Thank God WE are NEVER alone. Much love, Matt and Laurie.”

Crouch and her husband, the late Paul Crouch, founded the Trinity Broadcasting Network in 1973. She produced multiple television programs including Praise The Lord, The Glory of America and Say Yes. Paul Crouch passed away in 2013.

Her full name is Janice Wendell Bethany “Jan” Crouch and she was born on born March 14, 1938, in New Brockton, Alabama.

Photo captions: 1) Jan and Paul Crouch on TBN. 2) Carmen. 3) Dan Wooding

About the writer: Dan Wooding, 75, is an award-winning winning author, broadcaster and journalist who was born in Nigeria of British missionary parents, and is now living in Southern California with his wife Norma, to whom he has been married for nearly 53 years. They have two sons, Andrew and Peter, and six grandchildren, who all live in the UK. Dan is the founder and international director of the ASSIST News Service (ANS), and the author or co-author of some 45 books. He has one radio show and two TV programs all based in Southern California. He was a regular guest on the JOY program on TBN for several years. Before moving to the US, Dan was a senior reporter with two of the UK’s largest circulation newspapers and also an interviewer for BBC Radio One in London.