Charles Edward Fuller (April 25, 1887 – March 18, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and a radio evangelist. Biography He was born in Los Angeles to a prosperous southern California orange grove owner in 1887. Although raised by devout Methodists, he displayed little interest in religious matters as a youth. Fuller graduated from Pomona College in 1910 as a chemist and worked in his father's citrus-packing business in southern California until 1918. Fuller married his high school sweetheart, Grace Payton, in 1910. Fuller was converted under the preaching of Paul Rader, pastor of Chicago's Moody Church in 1916. Ministry After his conversion in 1916, Fuller began to teach the adult Sunday school class at Placentia Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles, and later entered the Bible Institute of Los Angeles (now Biola University), eventually becoming chairman of the board. states, "Under the tutelage of Biola's dean, Reuben A. Torrey, Fuller developed a religious perspective that was strongly weighted toward fundamentalism and dispensationalism. Fuller then dabbled in volunteer religious work in the Los Angeles area for several years until his fundamentalist views forced him and many of his Sunday school class to split from Placentia Presbyterian in 1925." Initially a Presbyterian, he became a Baptist minister in 1925. After his ordination as a Baptist minister, he pastored a group that named itself the Calvary Church. Fuller held revival meetings down the West Coast of the United States, and soon began using radio as a method to get his message out. By 1930, he was regularly broadcasting Calvary's Sunday school services as well as Bible study programs in the local area. Eventually, the time he spent on the radio broadcast conflicted with the time he spent pastoring his church, so he either resigned his pastorship or was fired in 1933 and formed the nonprofit Gospel Broadcasting Association to support his radio efforts. He gained renown as the host and speaker of The Old Fashioned Revival Hour, a weekly Sunday radio broadcast that aired from 1937 to 1968. The first nationwide broadcast occurred on October 3, 1937, on the Mutual Broadcasting System. Beginning in 1951, the program was carried on the ABC Radio Network, heard on more than 650 radio stations. The Old Fashioned Revival Hour broadcast was originally recorded in a Hollywood studio. In 1941, it was moved to the Long Beach Municipal Auditorium in Long Beach, California. From 1941 through 1958,