Robert A. Schuller

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Robert Anthony Schuller (born October 7, 1954 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American televangelist. An ordained minister, he is the only son of Robert H. Schuller and Arvella Schuller. His daughter, Christina, is one of the cast members of the first season of Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County. As a graduation gift, he gave his daughter a study bible. He serves as senior pastor of the Crystal Cathedral, in Garden Grove, California and is the best-selling author of Possibility Living.

Schuller was raised in Garden Grove, California, where he attended school. He graduated in 1976 from Hope College in Holland, Michigan, with a Bachelor's degree in Liberal Arts. In the 1980's, Schuller became an ordained minister after receiving a master of divinity degree from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. During that time period he also became vice-president of the Crystal Cathedral, and assumed the title of Executive Director of Rancho Capistrano, where he hosts his own shows via the Internet. (Rancho Capistrano Community Church and Conference Center had a collegiate relationship with the Crystal Cathedral.) Robert also travels to various conferences to discuss "possibility thinking".

Prior to his father's retirement in 2006, they alternated turns, by either reading scriptures and inviting celebrities, musical guests, and even famous athletes to their church to talk about their own challenges, testimonies, words of wisdom, encouragement, temptation, etc., what it is like to love Jesus, and to understand the concept of possibility thinking. With over 20 million viewers, his family's series is the second longest-running Sunday series to date (the first is 60 Minutes, which is 1 yr. older than The Hour of Power).

In 1987, he was also one of the ministers who helped to raise $32,000 to rebuild La Carbonera, Mexico, which was heavily damaged by Hurricane Gilbert. He also took more than 2,000 people on a trip to the Holy Land.

When not preaching and/or traveling, Schuller is the best-selling author of 9 books and he also spends much of his time with his family and wife Donna, who's been married since 1980. Schuller is also the father of 4 children. Robert Anthony's oldest child and son, Robert Vernon, is a one-time minister who read scriptures in 2000 on The Hour of Power show, filling-in for both his father and grandfather (and graduated from Oral Roberts University), and his daughter Christina is a successful actress.

At the beginning of each and every service, he says the trademark phrase, which his father made popular: God loves you, and so do we!