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Fort Worth Star-Telegram from Fort Worth, Texas • 1

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iF0RT W0RTH tar-Telegram i The West (Holier 12 $150 STAR'TELEGRAMCOM 1Z -Ml (sunns STAR TELEGRAMRON JENKINS say they don't want to be lumped in with televangelists who are "out for money" Sculpture is hot right now so we want to know which pieces are the best ever Watch us take thousands of years of artistic inspiration and whittle it down to 10 towering works of art IN ARTS SECTION detractors WWJD Smackdown Whatever the packaging the Lambs have a hit In little more than five years they have built a media empire Daystar Television Network which they say is worth at least $120 million and they have done it largely without seasons ratings or for that matter a word from sponsors The programming lineup rarely changes and it pays nearly all the bills This year broadcasting from a former Food Lion on the Grapevine-Colleyville border Daystar says it became the second-largest Christian network extending its reach throughout the United States and to as many as 150 countries The Lambs want it to grow even more the better to spread the Gospel More on DAYSTAR on 14A Marcus and Joni Lamb whose Jy -r A guide to health parade magazine Crosswords 4G 2L Editorials 2E Horoscope Movies Copyright Fort Worth Star Telegram 98th year show is broadcast from a former Food Lion Coming Monday lineup includes preachers TD Jakes left Benny Hinn and James Robison Some call the network a marketplace of Christian ideas Others call it a free-for-all tarnished by gimmicks and gaudiness 4G 10-11D Parade MAGAZINE Television TV STAR Issue 170 256 pages To subscribe (817) DEL IVER By DARREN BARBEE STAR TELEGRAM STAFF WRITER Imagine how television might treat the story of Marcus and Joni Lamb of Colleyville Tlie plot is pretty straightforward In the opening scenes a young evangelist has a vision a calling He sacrifices in anonymity to scrape together money for one television station then another then another While the Bakkers and the Tiltons of televangelist shame come and go the Lambs watch learn and persevere Then conflict comes in the form of big money strong per- sonalities and fierce rivalries As the Lambs and their admirers describe it a Highway to Heaven-style made-for-TV tale To competitors a show called Acquisition To Travel Weddings 7-9G A STAND BY ME Know where to stay eat and shop and even the most frugal traveler can enjoy the riches of that toniest of Southwest towns: Santa Fe in travel section Two men from different worlds forge a friendship that sustains them through darkest hours in life section Sunday Arts Classifieds I-M 8872 00002 SATURDAY'S WEATHER Partly cloudy High 84 Low 61 Full weather report on 26A 5iR0r-V Ui Si jj Wwmlfrrifti rtf -fiY n1.

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