Jack Hyles
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Jack Frasure Hyles was a leading figure in the Independent Baptist
movement, having pastored the First Baptist Church of Hammond
in Hammond, Indiana
, from 1959 until his death. He was also well-known for being an innovator of the church bus ministry that brought thousands of people each week from surrounding towns to Hammond for services. Jack Hyles built First Baptist up from fewer than a thousand members to a membership of 100,000. In 1993 and again in 1994, it was reported that 20,000 people attended First Baptist every Sunday, making it the most attended Baptist church in the United States In 2001, at the time of Hyles death, 20,000 people were attending church services and Sunday school each week. He was accused of several controversies while pastoring the church, and his doctrinal positions often put him at odds with other Christians — even with other fundamentalist Baptists.
, a low income area in Ellis County
south of Dallas
. Hyles often described his less-than-ideal upbringing which, he said, included a distant father. At the age of eighteen, Hyles enlisted in the United States Army
and served as a paratrooper
with the 82nd Airborne Division during World War II
. He and his wife, Beverly, were married during the war.
After the war was over, Hyles completed his college education at East Texas Baptist University
(then College) in Marshall
, the seat of Harrison County
. After his graduation from East Texas, Hyles started preaching at several small Texas churches, whose memberships began to grow. These churches included: Marris Chapel Baptist Church, Bogata, Texas
; Grange Hall Baptist Church, Marshall, Texas
; and Southside Baptist Church, Henderson, Texas
. After receiving his education Hyles pastored at the Miller Road Baptist Church in Garland
in Dallas County
for about six years. During this time the congregation grew from 44 to 4,000 members. It was during those days that Hyles left the Southern Baptist Convention and became an independent Baptist. Hyles then led Miller Road Baptist Church as an independent preacher for a while.
. When he arrived, the church had a membership of about seven hundred, said to be mostly "high-society types." About a third of the members left the church after hearing Hyles preaching style, which was much different than that to which they had been accustomed. Hyles then led the church to its status as an independent Baptist church—freeing it from its ties with the American Baptist
s. Hyles started his bus ministry and soon shepherded the church from a congregation of several hundred to more than 20,000. In the early 1990s a national survey ranked First Baptist as the largest church in the nation, by average weekly attendance figures.
Beginning in 1969, and continuing for several years, First Baptist received recognition for the size of its Sunday School. In 1969, Dr. Elmer Towns wrote a book called The Ten Largest Sunday Schools and What Makes Them Grow which analyzed First Baptist's Sunday School. Towns presented a plaque to Jack Hyles in 1971, naming First Baptist Church of Hammond the nation’s largest Sunday school. In 1972, and for several years following, Christian Life Magazine proclaimed First Baptist Church of Hammond to have "the world's largest Sunday School".
In 1972, Jack Hyles and Russell Anderson founded Hyles-Anderson College
, an unaccredited bible college
, to specialize in training Baptist ministers and Christian school teachers. Hyles-Anderson College never sought accreditation because Hyles insisted school accreditation would undermine his ability to control how the college ought to run.
Hyles spoke at 'The Sword of the Lord
' conferences with John R. Rice
and his own annual "Pastors School". The school continues to attract as many as seven thousand annual visitors to the Hammond area.
Hyles wrote approximately fifty works in his lifetime with over 14 million total copies in circulation, including the popular Is There A Hell?, based on a sermon he preached at a National Sword of the Lord Conference. Another work, Enemies of Soul Winning tackled many issues considered controversial in fundamentalist and evangelical circles, which include the doctrine of repentance, Lordship salvation
, and the role of the church in soul winning. The Calvary Contender wrote, "Hyles will be remembered as a one-of-a-kind, ever controversial leader whose ministry touched the lives of multitudes."
Jack Hyles was better known as "Brother Hyles" to his tens of thousands of congregants.
Hyles often held nationwide speaking engagements. In 1984, for instance, he addressed a large gathering in the small city of Snyder
, Texas, the seat of Scurry County, hosted by pastor Luther Wallace "Buck" Hatfield (1929–1995) of Faith Baptist Church. Independent Baptists from throughout the area, such as Ross J. Spencer from Bethany Baptist Church in Lubbock
, organized bus trips to the convention hall in Snyder. Hatfield and Spencer also adapted the bus ministry approach for their congregations.
In his book, Enemies of Soulwinning, Jack Hyles taught that one could not be born again unless the King James Version was used somewhere along the line in that person's life.
to the "spit and fire" of Jack Hyles. The Post suggested that after you heard a preacher like Hyles, "you knew that you'd been preached to". Falwell said that "Hyles will be remembered as a leader in evangelism through the local church." Falwell also said, "He inspired me as a young pastor to win others to Christ through Sunday school, the pulpit, and personal witnessing. He made a great contribution to the calls of Christ".
Hyles received an honorary doctorate from Midwestern Baptist College
, an unaccredited Bible college in Pontiac
, Michigan
. Students in unaccredited Bible colleges retain credentials only for use within the churches of the denomination.
In 2001, Hyles' church bought his childhood home and shipped it from Texas to Hyles-Anderson College to build a museum. Ray Young, a close friend of Hyles, said, "We have five thousand to seven thousand independent Baptists who come here each year for conventions. Reverend Hyles was very much adored by independent Baptists across the country. It should be a major attraction for them."
The Chicago Sun Times wrote about Hyles on the occasion of his death, "When he chose the interests of poor, inner-city kids over millionaire church members, they said he'd never keep the doors of his church open." However, Hyles "proved them all wrong. In the process he built one of the largest congregations in the country, a college, six schools, and a vibrant ministry that will now have to survive without him."
Matthew Barnett
, while discussing his work at an inner-city Los Angeles ministry, explained how he learned from Jack Hyles. Barnett also expounded on how Hyles was a tremendous soulwinner and how Hyles had great influence throughout the entire Chicago area.
Hyles was honored by his church with a huge portrait of Hyles and his widow, Beverly, dominating the skyline of the town. He is also honored in Founder's Park at his college, where they laid 30,000 bricks as flooring for life-sized statues of Hyles and his widow.
In October 1997, an Indianapolis
lawyer filed a lawsuit against First Baptist Church of Hammond
, accusing the church and its pastor of allowing a mentally retarded woman to be sexually assaulted for six years. The civil suit filed in Lake Superior Court in Gary
claims the Chicago
woman was "induced by agents" of the church in 1991 to ride a bus to attend Sunday school
at First Baptist. While in the care of the church, the lawsuit alleges, the woman was sexually assaulted, molested, battered and raped more than once through the Fall of 1996.
For that reason, lawyer Vernon Petri said, the church and its pastor
, the Rev. Jack Hyles, have been named as defendants in the suit. "Both failed in their duty to protect her," Petri said. Hyles called the accusations ridiculous. "There's nobody in this world who is more opposed to this sexual molestation nor anything like that," he said. "We even preach against divorce. We are totally opposed to sexual sin. There is nothing more obnoxious and abhorrent than that." Petri, who is a party in the suit filed on behalf of the woman, now 42, and her sister, alleged in the lawsuit a pattern of assault can be traced to a Sunday in 1991, when a First Baptist teacher saw someone abusing the woman and reported it to church leaders and police. The parents were never told, Petri said, so the woman kept going to church, where the suit claims she was threatened into silence.
"The thing that broke the camel's back came in the fall of 1996 when (the woman) developed a horrible infection and was taken to a doctor to find out what was wrong," Petri said. "When the doctor couldn't understand where the infection was coming from, she was admitted to a hospital where they found, embedded in her, a plastic object." The woman then told what happened, Petri said, recalling that a church program instructor led her to a room and served as a lookout while two to three males raped her. Hyles said he would have been the first one to want someone punished for such an act. Hyles said the church told police about the teacher's report in 1991. "We reported it immediately," he said. “And that's the only case we know of. In fact, our records show the girl has not attended our church since that occasion." Hyles said accurate records are kept of attendance. "For them to bring this up, when our records show no attendance since 1991, is a total shock to me," he said. Anthony Mancini, a Chicago
lawyer who also represents the woman, said his client has been in a type of shock. "She has suffered an incredible amount of emotional harm and physical pain over this," he said. "This was her life, this was her church. This was her place of worship, and she was violated by it."
Mancini said he knows of no arrests in connection with the woman's case in 1991 or in 1996, as a request to review files will be granted only with a subpoena. "Now that we have filed suit, we will seek out the records to open up the case and learn more about what happened."
Independent Baptist
Independent Baptist churches are Christian churches generally holding to conservative Baptist beliefs. They are characterized by being independent from the authority of denominations or similar bodies. Members of such churches comprised three percent of the United States adult population according...
movement, having pastored the First Baptist Church of Hammond
First Baptist Church of Hammond
The First Baptist Church of Hammond is a fundamental Independent Baptist church in Hammond, Indiana. It is the largest church in the state of Indiana, and in 2007 was the 20th largest in the United States...
in Hammond, Indiana
Hammond, Indiana
Hammond is a city in Lake County, Indiana, United States. It is part of the Chicago metropolitan area. The population was 80,830 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Hammond is located at ....
, from 1959 until his death. He was also well-known for being an innovator of the church bus ministry that brought thousands of people each week from surrounding towns to Hammond for services. Jack Hyles built First Baptist up from fewer than a thousand members to a membership of 100,000. In 1993 and again in 1994, it was reported that 20,000 people attended First Baptist every Sunday, making it the most attended Baptist church in the United States In 2001, at the time of Hyles death, 20,000 people were attending church services and Sunday school each week. He was accused of several controversies while pastoring the church, and his doctrinal positions often put him at odds with other Christians — even with other fundamentalist Baptists.
His early life and beginnings of his ministry
Hyles was born and raised in Italy, TexasItaly, Texas
Italy is a town in Ellis County, Texas, United States. As of the 2000 census, the town has a total population of 1,993.-Geography:Italy is located at .According to the United...
, a low income area in Ellis County
Ellis County, Texas
As of the census of 2000, there were 111,360 people, 37,020 households, and 29,653 families residing in the county. The population density was 118 people per square mile . There were 39,071 housing units at an average density of 42 per square mile...
south of Dallas
Dallas, Texas
Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...
. Hyles often described his less-than-ideal upbringing which, he said, included a distant father. At the age of eighteen, Hyles enlisted in the United States Army
United States Army
The United States Army is the main branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S. military, and is one of seven U.S. uniformed services...
and served as a paratrooper
Paratrooper
Paratroopers are soldiers trained in parachuting and generally operate as part of an airborne force.Paratroopers are used for tactical advantage as they can be inserted into the battlefield from the air, thereby allowing them to be positioned in areas not accessible by land...
with the 82nd Airborne Division during World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
. He and his wife, Beverly, were married during the war.
After the war was over, Hyles completed his college education at East Texas Baptist University
East Texas Baptist University
East Texas Baptist University is a private, coeducational Christian university in Marshall, Texas, United States associated with the Baptist General Convention of Texas.- History :...
(then College) in Marshall
Marshall, Texas
Marshall is a city in Harrison County in the northeastern corner of Texas. Marshall is a major cultural and educational center in East Texas and the tri-state area. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the population of Marshall was about 23,523...
, the seat of Harrison County
Harrison County, Texas
Harrison County is a county of the U.S. state of Texas. In 2000, its population was 62,110. It is named for Jonas Harrison, a lawyer and Texas revolutionary. It is located in the Ark-La-Tex region...
. After his graduation from East Texas, Hyles started preaching at several small Texas churches, whose memberships began to grow. These churches included: Marris Chapel Baptist Church, Bogata, Texas
Bogata, Texas
Bogata is a city in Red River County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,396 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Bogata is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land....
; Grange Hall Baptist Church, Marshall, Texas
Marshall, Texas
Marshall is a city in Harrison County in the northeastern corner of Texas. Marshall is a major cultural and educational center in East Texas and the tri-state area. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the population of Marshall was about 23,523...
; and Southside Baptist Church, Henderson, Texas
Henderson, Texas
Henderson is a city in Rusk County, Texas, United States. The population was 11,273 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Rusk County...
. After receiving his education Hyles pastored at the Miller Road Baptist Church in Garland
Garland, Texas
-Climate:* The average warmest month is July.* The highest recorded temperature was in 2000.* On average, the coolest month is January.* The lowest recorded temperature was in 1989.* The maximum average precipitation occurs in May....
in Dallas County
Dallas County, Texas
As of the census of 2000, there were 2,218,899 people, 807,621 households, and 533,837 families residing in the county. The population density was 2,523 people per square mile . There were 854,119 housing units at an average density of 971/sq mi...
for about six years. During this time the congregation grew from 44 to 4,000 members. It was during those days that Hyles left the Southern Baptist Convention and became an independent Baptist. Hyles then led Miller Road Baptist Church as an independent preacher for a while.
The move to Hammond, Indiana
In 1959, Hyles moved to the church provided parsonage at 8232 Greenwood ave. Munster, IN and became the pastor of First Baptist Church of HammondFirst Baptist Church of Hammond
The First Baptist Church of Hammond is a fundamental Independent Baptist church in Hammond, Indiana. It is the largest church in the state of Indiana, and in 2007 was the 20th largest in the United States...
. When he arrived, the church had a membership of about seven hundred, said to be mostly "high-society types." About a third of the members left the church after hearing Hyles preaching style, which was much different than that to which they had been accustomed. Hyles then led the church to its status as an independent Baptist church—freeing it from its ties with the American Baptist
American Baptist Churches USA
The American Baptist Churches USA is a Baptist Christian denomination within the United States. The denomination maintains headquarters in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. The organization is usually considered mainline, although varying theological and mission emphases may be found among its...
s. Hyles started his bus ministry and soon shepherded the church from a congregation of several hundred to more than 20,000. In the early 1990s a national survey ranked First Baptist as the largest church in the nation, by average weekly attendance figures.
Beginning in 1969, and continuing for several years, First Baptist received recognition for the size of its Sunday School. In 1969, Dr. Elmer Towns wrote a book called The Ten Largest Sunday Schools and What Makes Them Grow which analyzed First Baptist's Sunday School. Towns presented a plaque to Jack Hyles in 1971, naming First Baptist Church of Hammond the nation’s largest Sunday school. In 1972, and for several years following, Christian Life Magazine proclaimed First Baptist Church of Hammond to have "the world's largest Sunday School".
In 1972, Jack Hyles and Russell Anderson founded Hyles-Anderson College
Hyles-Anderson College
Hyles–Anderson College is an unaccredited Bible college in unincorporated Crown Point, Lake County, Indiana, with a postal address at 8400 Burr Street, Crown Point, Indiana 46307-1499. The college is a ministry of the First Baptist Church of Hammond. It focuses primarily on training pastors,...
, an unaccredited bible college
Bible college
Bible colleges are institutions of higher education that specialize in biblical studies. Curriculum is Bible-based and differs from that of liberal arts colleges or research universities. Bible colleges generally exclude the study of philosophy, unlike seminaries and theological colleges...
, to specialize in training Baptist ministers and Christian school teachers. Hyles-Anderson College never sought accreditation because Hyles insisted school accreditation would undermine his ability to control how the college ought to run.
The ministry of Hyles
One of the most notable aspects of Hyles is his church bus ministry that he helped innovate. As early as 1975, Time magazine described the phenomenon in an article titled, "Superchurch." The Time article notes that First Baptist Church of Hammond Sunday School, which regularly ran almost 14,000 people, pushed the church to a record attendance of 30,560 on March 16, 1975, thanks to a boisterous contest between two bus route teams. In that year, the First Baptist bus route ministry consisted of 1,000 workers using 230 buses to ferry as many as 10,000 people every Sunday. In 2001, a fleet of over 200 buses was regularly ferrying 7,000 to 15,000 people from all over the area.Hyles spoke at 'The Sword of the Lord
The Sword of the Lord
The Sword of the Lord is a Christian fundamentalist publisher, based in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, that publishes a newspaper of the same name as well as religious books, pamphlets, and tracts.-History:...
' conferences with John R. Rice
John R. Rice
John Richard Rice was a Baptist evangelist and pastor and the founding editor of The Sword of the Lord, an influential fundamentalist newspaper.-Childhood and Education:...
and his own annual "Pastors School". The school continues to attract as many as seven thousand annual visitors to the Hammond area.
Hyles wrote approximately fifty works in his lifetime with over 14 million total copies in circulation, including the popular Is There A Hell?, based on a sermon he preached at a National Sword of the Lord Conference. Another work, Enemies of Soul Winning tackled many issues considered controversial in fundamentalist and evangelical circles, which include the doctrine of repentance, Lordship salvation
Lordship salvation
The "lordship salvation" controversy is a theological dispute regarding key soteriological questions within Protestantism, involving some non-denominational and Evangelical churches in North America since the 1980's...
, and the role of the church in soul winning. The Calvary Contender wrote, "Hyles will be remembered as a one-of-a-kind, ever controversial leader whose ministry touched the lives of multitudes."
Jack Hyles was better known as "Brother Hyles" to his tens of thousands of congregants.
Hyles often held nationwide speaking engagements. In 1984, for instance, he addressed a large gathering in the small city of Snyder
Snyder, Texas
Snyder is a city in and the county seat of Scurry County, Texas, United States. The population was 10,653 at the 2010 census. It is located on Deep Creek, a minor tributary of the Colorado River of Texas. Snyder is approximately 150 km southeast of Lubbock.Located in Snyder is the Scurry County...
, Texas, the seat of Scurry County, hosted by pastor Luther Wallace "Buck" Hatfield (1929–1995) of Faith Baptist Church. Independent Baptists from throughout the area, such as Ross J. Spencer from Bethany Baptist Church in Lubbock
Lubbock, Texas
Lubbock is a city in and the county seat of Lubbock County, Texas, United States. The city is located in the northwestern part of the state, a region known historically as the Llano Estacado, and the home of Texas Tech University and Lubbock Christian University...
, organized bus trips to the convention hall in Snyder. Hatfield and Spencer also adapted the bus ministry approach for their congregations.
In his book, Enemies of Soulwinning, Jack Hyles taught that one could not be born again unless the King James Version was used somewhere along the line in that person's life.
Honors, award, and praise
In contrast to the criticism, Hyles has been the recipient of praise, an honorary doctorate, and other accolades throughout the course of his life, even continuing past his death. The Washington Post compared the "meek" preaching style of Jerry FalwellJerry Falwell
Jerry Lamon Falwell, Sr. was an evangelical fundamentalist Southern Baptist pastor, televangelist, and a conservative commentator from the United States. He was the founding pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church, a megachurch in Lynchburg, Virginia...
to the "spit and fire" of Jack Hyles. The Post suggested that after you heard a preacher like Hyles, "you knew that you'd been preached to". Falwell said that "Hyles will be remembered as a leader in evangelism through the local church." Falwell also said, "He inspired me as a young pastor to win others to Christ through Sunday school, the pulpit, and personal witnessing. He made a great contribution to the calls of Christ".
Hyles received an honorary doctorate from Midwestern Baptist College
Midwestern Baptist College
Midwestern Baptist College, formally known as Midwestern Bible College, is an unaccredited higher education institution in Pontiac, Michigan....
, an unaccredited Bible college in Pontiac
Pontiac, Michigan
Pontiac is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan named after the Ottawa Chief Pontiac, located within the Detroit metropolitan area. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 59,515. It is the county seat of Oakland County...
, Michigan
Michigan
Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
. Students in unaccredited Bible colleges retain credentials only for use within the churches of the denomination.
In 2001, Hyles' church bought his childhood home and shipped it from Texas to Hyles-Anderson College to build a museum. Ray Young, a close friend of Hyles, said, "We have five thousand to seven thousand independent Baptists who come here each year for conventions. Reverend Hyles was very much adored by independent Baptists across the country. It should be a major attraction for them."
The Chicago Sun Times wrote about Hyles on the occasion of his death, "When he chose the interests of poor, inner-city kids over millionaire church members, they said he'd never keep the doors of his church open." However, Hyles "proved them all wrong. In the process he built one of the largest congregations in the country, a college, six schools, and a vibrant ministry that will now have to survive without him."
Matthew Barnett
Matthew Barnett
Matthew Barnett is co-founder of the Dream Center and senior pastor of the Angelus Temple, the central house of worship of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel in the Echo Park district of Los Angeles, California.-Dream Center:...
, while discussing his work at an inner-city Los Angeles ministry, explained how he learned from Jack Hyles. Barnett also expounded on how Hyles was a tremendous soulwinner and how Hyles had great influence throughout the entire Chicago area.
Hyles was honored by his church with a huge portrait of Hyles and his widow, Beverly, dominating the skyline of the town. He is also honored in Founder's Park at his college, where they laid 30,000 bricks as flooring for life-sized statues of Hyles and his widow.
Controversies
In 1989, the paper The Biblical Evangelist published a story "The Saddest Story We Ever Published", accusing Jack Hyles of sexual scandals, financial misappropriation and doctrinal errors. These charges were denied by Hyles who deemed them "lies".In October 1997, an Indianapolis
Indianapolis
Indianapolis is the capital of the U.S. state of Indiana, and the county seat of Marion County, Indiana. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's population is 839,489. It is by far Indiana's largest city and, as of the 2010 U.S...
lawyer filed a lawsuit against First Baptist Church of Hammond
First Baptist Church of Hammond
The First Baptist Church of Hammond is a fundamental Independent Baptist church in Hammond, Indiana. It is the largest church in the state of Indiana, and in 2007 was the 20th largest in the United States...
, accusing the church and its pastor of allowing a mentally retarded woman to be sexually assaulted for six years. The civil suit filed in Lake Superior Court in Gary
Gary, Indiana
Gary is a city in Lake County, Indiana, United States. The city is in the southeastern portion of the Chicago metropolitan area and is 25 miles from downtown Chicago. The population is 80,294 at the 2010 census, making it the seventh-largest city in the state. It borders Lake Michigan and is known...
claims the Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
woman was "induced by agents" of the church in 1991 to ride a bus to attend Sunday school
Sunday school
Sunday school is the generic name for many different types of religious education pursued on Sundays by various denominations.-England:The first Sunday school may have been opened in 1751 in St. Mary's Church, Nottingham. Another early start was made by Hannah Ball, a native of High Wycombe in...
at First Baptist. While in the care of the church, the lawsuit alleges, the woman was sexually assaulted, molested, battered and raped more than once through the Fall of 1996.
For that reason, lawyer Vernon Petri said, the church and its pastor
Pastor
The word pastor usually refers to an ordained leader of a Christian congregation. When used as an ecclesiastical styling or title, this role may be abbreviated to "Pr." or often "Ps"....
, the Rev. Jack Hyles, have been named as defendants in the suit. "Both failed in their duty to protect her," Petri said. Hyles called the accusations ridiculous. "There's nobody in this world who is more opposed to this sexual molestation nor anything like that," he said. "We even preach against divorce. We are totally opposed to sexual sin. There is nothing more obnoxious and abhorrent than that." Petri, who is a party in the suit filed on behalf of the woman, now 42, and her sister, alleged in the lawsuit a pattern of assault can be traced to a Sunday in 1991, when a First Baptist teacher saw someone abusing the woman and reported it to church leaders and police. The parents were never told, Petri said, so the woman kept going to church, where the suit claims she was threatened into silence.
"The thing that broke the camel's back came in the fall of 1996 when (the woman) developed a horrible infection and was taken to a doctor to find out what was wrong," Petri said. "When the doctor couldn't understand where the infection was coming from, she was admitted to a hospital where they found, embedded in her, a plastic object." The woman then told what happened, Petri said, recalling that a church program instructor led her to a room and served as a lookout while two to three males raped her. Hyles said he would have been the first one to want someone punished for such an act. Hyles said the church told police about the teacher's report in 1991. "We reported it immediately," he said. “And that's the only case we know of. In fact, our records show the girl has not attended our church since that occasion." Hyles said accurate records are kept of attendance. "For them to bring this up, when our records show no attendance since 1991, is a total shock to me," he said. Anthony Mancini, a Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
lawyer who also represents the woman, said his client has been in a type of shock. "She has suffered an incredible amount of emotional harm and physical pain over this," he said. "This was her life, this was her church. This was her place of worship, and she was violated by it."
Mancini said he knows of no arrests in connection with the woman's case in 1991 or in 1996, as a request to review files will be granted only with a subpoena. "Now that we have filed suit, we will seek out the records to open up the case and learn more about what happened."
Books
- Seeing Him Who Is Invisible -- Sword of the Lord Publications (1960) ISBN 0-87398-754-3
- How to Boost Your Church Attendance -- Zondervan (January 1, 1961)
- Let's Build an Evangelistic Church -- Sword of the Lord Publications (1962) ISBN 0-87398-502-8
- Kisses of Calvary and Other Sermons -- Sword of the Lord Pub (1965) ISBN 0-87398-479-X
- Let's Hear Jack Hyles (Burning Messages for the Saved and Unsaved) -- Sword of the Lord Publications (1972) ISBN 0-87398-504-4
- Hyles Church Manual -- Sword of the Lord Publications (November 1982) ISBN 0-87398-372-6
- Church Bus Handbook -- Hyles-Anderson Publications (1970)
- How to Rear Children -- Hyles-Anderson Publications (January 1, 1972) 193 pgs.
- How to Rear Infants -- Hyles-Anderson Publications (January 1, 1979) 143 pgs.
- How to Rear Teenagers -- Revival Fires! Publishers (January 1, 1998) 155 pgs.
- Blue Denim and Lace -- Hyles-Anderson Publications (1972)
- Let's Go Soul Winning -- Sword of the Lord Publications (January 1980) ISBN 0-87398-503-6
- Hyles Sunday School Manual -- Sword of the Lord Publications (November 1982) ISBN 0-87398-391-2
- The Blood, the Book and the Body -- Hyles-Anderson Publications (1992)
- Enemies of Soul Winning -- Hyles-Anderson Publications (1993) 148 pgs.
- Please Pardon My Poetry -- Hyles-Anderson Publications (January 1, 1976) 123 pgs.
- Logic Must Prove the King James Bible. -- Hyles-Anderson Publications
- Is There A Hell? -- Hyles-Anderson Publications
- Jack Hyles Speaks on Biblical Separation -- Hyles-Anderson Publications (1984) 112 pgs.
- Salvation is more than Being Saved -- Hyles-Anderson Publications (1985) 150 pgs.
- Teaching on Preaching -- Hyles-Anderson Publications (1986) 153 pgs.
- Grace and Truth -- Hyles-Anderson Publications (January 1, 1975) 222 pgs.
- The Miracle of the Bus Ministry -- Ray Young Publications (1996)
- Fundamentalism in My Lifetime -- Hyles Publications (2002) ISBN 0-9709488-4-0
- What Great Men Taught Me -- Berean Publications (2000)
- Truman Dollar, Jerry FalwellJerry FalwellJerry Lamon Falwell, Sr. was an evangelical fundamentalist Southern Baptist pastor, televangelist, and a conservative commentator from the United States. He was the founding pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church, a megachurch in Lynchburg, Virginia...
, A.V. Henderson, & Jack Hyles Building Blocks of the Faith (Foundational Bible Doctrines, Special Faith Partner Edition) -- Fundamentalist Church Publications (1977) ISBN 0-89663-006-4
Other
- Introduction to the Dino J. PedroneDino PedroneDr. Dino J. Pedrone is the President of Davis College. He had served as Senior Pastor of New Testament Baptist Church in the South Florida from 1995 to 2009. He oversaw New Testament Baptist Church's two locations and its two school Dade Christian School and the Master's Academy...
book What is It All About? Sword of the Lord Publications (2000) ISBN 0-87398-932-5 - Introduction to the Beverly Hyles book Woman, the Assembler (Making Your Husband a Leader) Hyles Publications (1995)
Hyles Ministry
- The Jack Hyles Home Page – Books, sermons, & links
- Hyles Publications – A publisher of books and bibles including many by Jack Hyles