ARTESIA, CA (WHTC) – Televangelist and Hope College Graduate Robert Schuller is dead. Schuller who graduated in 1947 passed away early today at a Los Angeles-area nursing home after battling cancer for the last couple of years. He was 88.
Schuller founded the Crystal Cathedral Ministries in Garden Grove, California and preached to tens of millions during his “Hour of Power” television program.
Following his retirement, the church declared bankruptcy in 2010 and the giant steel and glass building was sold to the Roman Catholic Diocese.
Schuller was Hope’s Commencement speaker in May 1992. The Hope College Alumni Association presented him with a Distinguished Alumni Award in 1970, and he received an honorary degree from Hope in 1973
