Robert A. Schuller

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Reverend Dr. Robert Anthony Schuller (born October 7, 1954 in Blue Island, Illinois[1]) is an American televangelist and author. 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. 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.[2] During that time period he also became vice-president of the Crystal Cathedral.

In 1981, Schuller founded the Cathedral's Rancho Capistrano in San Juan Capistrano, California, and assumed the title of Executive Director, where he hosts his own shows via the Internet.[3] Rancho Capistrano Community Church and Conference Center has a collegiate relationship with the Crystal Cathedral. In 1992, he established the Rancho Capistrano School, offering pre-, elementary and middle school.

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.

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).

Schuller is the best-selling author of ten books. He also spends much of his time with his wife Donna, who's been married since 1980, and his four children. Robert Anthony's oldest 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).

At the beginning of each and every service, he says his trademark phrase, which his father made popular: God loves you, and so do we!^{[citation needed]}