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''Live Prayer'' is a Christian evangelical Internet and television ministry located in Tampa, Florida, founded and operated by Bill Keller. The ministry began in 1999 as a website featuring a daily devotional written by Keller and offers to accept and pray over emails, later expanding into a daily TV show on March 3, 2003. Live Prayer was broadcast nationally in the United States from July 3, 2006〔 through November 2006 on ION Television. At the end of that period, the ministry was financially unable to continue purchasing national airtime and returned to the Florida market. However, in 2013, Keller obtained enough funding to continue the program on several major city markets, including Chicago, and, by 2015, managed to secure airtime on forty-nine of the fifty U.S. states, with all but Hawaii broadcasting his nightly program. Live Prayer currently operates a service "Gold for Souls" through which people may donate their unwanted gold jewelry to the ministry in exchange for a tax receipt. ==Television show== The Live Prayer television program began March 3, 2003 as a late-night show on WTOG where Bill Keller discussed current events from in relation to the ministry's theology and took phone calls. Callers would mostly ask Keller to pray with them over specific issues in their lives, occasionally contributing testimony of religious experience and their comments on scripture. Keller would sometimes encourage his opponents to call in and debate with him on contentions issues such as evolution, abortion, and homosexuality. Each episode ended with Keller inviting viewers to "accept Jesus" and recite a sinner's prayer with him. Starting July 2006, the show was seen nationwide on ION Television, however this ended in November when Keller could not raise enough money to pay the significantly higher airtime fees. Live Prayer was, up until this point, shown without advertising and paid for entirely by donations. However, near the end of his time on ION, Keller began showing a limited number of ads from companies promoting gold investment schemes. Keller made a point of criticizing other televangelists for continually begging for money and misappropriating the donations they received. Keller also made his personal financial records available to reporters on request and informed viewers that his studio was austerely located on the donated grounds of a used car lot. After leaving ION, the show returned to its more economical spot on WTOG. On August 31, 2007, after 1,175〔 episodes and nearly 5 years, Live Prayer was pulled from WTOG after complaints from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, after Keller made remarks on the show describing Muhammad as a "murdering pedophile", and considering Islam to be a "1,400-year-old lie from the pits of hell."〔(Tampa Bay's 10 - Televangelist loses TV show ); Accessed September 20, 2007.〕〔(First Coast News - St. Petersburg Televangelist Loses Show After Muslims Complain ); Accessed September 20, 2007.〕〔(B-92 News - Muslims claim televangelist ouster victory ); Accessed September 20, 2007〕〔(KansasCity.com - TV station yanks program by televangelist who condemns other religions ); Accessed September 20, 2007.〕〔(''Belfast Telegraph'' - American televangelist axed after anti-Muslim outburst (August 25, 2007) ); Accessed September 20, 2007.〕 On September 3, 2007, the show would move to WTTA under the title ''Live Prayer AM'', airing from 7:30 am to 8:30 am.〔(Live Prayer Daily Devotional for August 28th, 2007 )〕 In early November 2007, because WTTA suddenly changed its policy regarding live call-in shows, the show moved to local ION station WXPX; while still seen at 7:30 a.m. the show was cut to a half-hour. The morning show featured more guests as well as live shots from Florida attractions. The show featured a small number of ads, mostly for consumer mail-order items, but still relied heavily on donations. On November 19, 2007, Keller announced that he was suspending his television program after the telecast on Friday, November 23, after officials from ION told Keller that it will no longer carry live programming. The ministry shows on public records that the income is about $500,000 a year gross, of which is claimed to have most of the money spent on internet band width. Keller made plans to revive the show on his website as an Internet-only live call-in broadcast in January 2008.〔 In 2013, Keller resumed a live broadcast of the show on Television and continues to broadcast Monday through Friday in markets such as New York and Chicago. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Live Prayer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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