22. T. D. Jakes Earnings Go Up To $147 Million
In 1996 African-American pastor, author and filmmaker T.D. Jakes founded the Potter’s House, a non-denominational megachurch located on a 34-acre hilltop campus in Dallas, Texas, featuring a 5,000-seat auditorium and hosting about 14,000 congregants.
T.D. Jakes Ministries was established as a non-profit organization producing televised sermons and conferences broadcast on The Potter’s Touch, which airs on Lightsource.com, the Trinity Broadcasting Network, Black Entertainment Television, the Daystar Television Network, The Word Network, VHS home video, and The Miracle Channel in Canada. In 2005, Jakes was described by then-President George W. Bush as “a kind of man who puts faith into action” after the Bishop accompanied him to visit the areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina and according to NBC News in January 20, 2009, Jakes led the early morning prayer service for President Barack Obama at St. John’s Church in Washington, D.C.. Jakes was converted and ordained within Oneness Pentecostalism but he has revealed that he affirms the Trinity but not the eternality of the individual persons of the Trinity which is denied by Oneness churches.
