Matthew Crouch, Vice President of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, recalls the special friendship he and his family shared with one of Gospel Music's true legends.  

LOS ANGELES (January 12, 2015) — The news late last week that Andraé Crouch had gone home to heaven brought my family and me both deep grief, along with a flood of warm memories about the Gospel Music legend that we always referred to affectionately as “cousin.” I think my father, Paul Crouch Sr., came up with that nickname for Andraé, for the obvious reason that he and our family shared the same last name. But in reality, the bond went much deeper than just a name.

Trinity Broadcasting Network announced the launch of an incredible contest that will run throughout 2015. Each week for the next year TBN will be giving away a trip for two to the Holy Land as part of preparations for its historic Grace Israel Tour 2016, a ten-day tour of the Holy Land, February 22 through March 2, 2016, hosted by TBN's Matthew and Laurie Crouch and featuring the powerful grace teachings of popular TBN ministry partner Joseph Prince.

January 5th is an historic day for the United Kingdom! Today Trinity Broadcasting Network, the world's largest religious broadcaster, launched TBN UK on Freeview Channel 65, bringing 24-hour faith-and-family television to 95 percent of television households across England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland — nearly 26 million UK homes!

In 2012 my family and I had the privilege of accompanying my father, Paul Crouch, on an extended tour around the world to check in on the scores of television stations and networks that he had a hand in growing over his forty years as a pioneer in Christian television. From the full-power stations across America to TBN's international networks throughout Latin America, Europe, the Baltics, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia — each stop we made on that memorable journey represented to my dad a milestone of God's faithfulness in the commission He had given my parents to take the message of Jesus to every corner of the earth