BIO:Charles Edward Fuller

1887-1968
Charles E. Fuller was born on April 25, 1887, the fourth son 
of a furniture merchant who later became prosperous as a 
fruit grower in Southern California. After graduating magna 
cum laude from Pomona College, he married Grace Payton and 
ventured into the fruit-packing business.
        In 1917 Fuller went to the Church of the Open Door in 
Los Angeles to hear Paul Rader preach. The sermon from 
Ephesians 1:18 reached his heart, and he was converted to 
Christ. The next year found him and his wife traveling as 
itinerant missionaries to the remote villages of the western 
states. They shared a burden to reach people in out-of-the-
way places. Soon after, Fuller left the fruit-packing busi-
ness and entered the Bible Institute of Los Angeles. He be-
came a renown Bible teacher in his community and formed a 
church from a small Bible class which he served for ten 
years.
        From the sanctuary of that church, Calvary Church of 
Placentia, California, he launched his radio ministry in 1925 
over a single local radio station in Santa Ana, California, 
and later became the director of a program he called The Old-
Fashioned Revival Hour. His purpose was the dissemination of 
the Gospel by radio to reach vast numbers of people right in 
their own homes. The broadcast's format gained immediate ac-
ceptance, and interest gave it rapid expansion to other sta-
tions. In the early 1940s, it was being carried each Sunday 
by a major transcontinental network, and was occupying a 
thousand hours of radio time each week in the United States, 
Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, South America, and on many is-
lands of the sea.
        During the 1940s Fuller also directed a large contin-
gent of evangelists in many parts of North America through 
the Fuller Evangelistic Foundation. Meanwhile, the Gospel 
Broadcasting Association continued to expand The Old-
Fashioned Revival Hour's coverage from North America to al-
most every spot on the globe. For 15 years, beginning with 
World War II, the program was broadcast each Sunday afternoon 
from the Municipal Auditorium in Long Beach, California, 
where it drew huge audiences. In that enormous hall, many 
G.I.s found the Lord before being shipped to Pacific and Eu-
ropean war theatres, many to die in battle.
        At the time of Dr. Fuller's death, the broadcast was 
heard on more than 500 stations around the world. He died in 
March, 1968.

