- Full name: Percy Bartiminaus Crawford
- Birth date: October 20, 1902, in Minnedosa, Manitoba
- Death date: October 29, 1960
- Parents: Thomas and Margaret Crawford
- Siblings: Alphonse
- Marital Status: Married to Ruth Marjorie (Duvall) Crawford on September 18, 1933 at Pinebrook Camp in Pennsylvania
- Children: Donald Bruce (1937), Richard Torrey (1939), Daniel (1941), Dean(1944), Donna Lee (1949)
- Conversion: September 23, 1923, at the Church of the Open Door in Los Angeles during a sermon by Bill Nicholson
- Education: Attended and graduated from a college preparatory program at the Oregon Institute of Technology, Portland, Oregon, which was run by the Young Men's Christian Association
(1920?-1923); Attended and graduated from BIOLA (Bible Institute of Los Angeles) (1923-1926); enrolled in the University of California, Southern Branch (1926); transferred to Wheaton College, Illinois (1928); graduated from Wheaton College (1929); Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1929-1931); received Masters degree from the University of Pennsylvania
- Career: Began holding Saturday night youth rallies at Barnes Memorial Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, rallies which were one of the models for Youth for Christ (1930); began radio broadcasting Young People's Church of the Air in Philadelphia (1931); held youth rallies along the eastern coast of the United States (1931-1933); opened Pinebrook Bible Camp in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania (1933) and later also started Shadowbrook (for boys) and Mountainbrook (for girls) camps; opened King's College in Belmar, New Jersey (1938, property had been acquired in 1936), and continued as president until 1945 and as trustee and founder; King's College moved to an estate near New Castle, Delaware, due to the financial requirement of New Jersey for educational institutions (1941); Youth on the March television program premiered on ABC on October 9, 1949, the first coast-to coast evangelistic program broadcast on television airing on twenty-two stations; acquired other stations in Detroit, Hammond (Indiana), Lancaster (Pennsylvania); world tour with his wife and vocalists from Young People's Church of the Air (1953-1954); started King's Korean Mission (1954?); King's College moved to Briarcliff Manor, New York (1955); started Christian television station WPCA in Philadelphia (1958?); began Youtharama, a Saturday night rally for young people, in Philadelphia (1959)
- Full name: Ruth Marjorie (Duvall) Crawford, later Ruth Crawford Porter
- Birth date: May 2, 1916
- Death date: October 28, 1986
- Parents: Rezin Duvall and Nancy Viola McDonald Duvall
- Siblings: Esther, R. Fenton, Bruce, William
- Marital Status: Married Percy Crawford September 18, 1933 at Pinebrook Camp in Pennsylvania; married Dr. Robert Monroe Porter (chiropractor) in March 1966
- Children: Donald Bruce (1937), Richard Torrey (1939), Daniel (1941), Dean(1944), Donna Lee (1949)
- Conversion: Date unknown, product of an evangelical Methodist home
- Education: Completed 11th grade of high school in Collingswood, New Jersey
- Career: Involved in Percy Crawford's ministry as pianist, songwriter, composer and remained the main influence on all musical aspects of the ministry (1931- ); continued to be active as a songwriter and musician until her death; compiled seventeen hymnals during her lifetime; produced several albums of Christian music (including her own compositions and arrangements); trained seven quartets; orchestrated and conducted orchestras for radio and television programs; orchestrated, arranged and led several choral groups, including the King's Singers; played piano, organ, guitar, harp and xylophone at a professional level; she also was the main creative force behind the six-day-a-week devotional radio program, Pinebrook Praises; following Percy Crawford's death in 1960, she continued Pinebrook Praises until ca. 1965 and traveled in an evangelistic ministry with her son Donald until ca. 1967; published Sing in My Heart (1962), Hearts in Harmony (1978), and Singing and Making Melodies (1983); with her sister Esther Eagen, she for several years had a brief daily radio program entitled Bible Women Speak Today.
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