With the success of "Survivor II", reality TV is changing the landscape of Television.  Reality shows are popping up everywhere, even Christian TV.  Paul Crouch recently announced "Christian TV Ministry Survival" a Survivor-like program where popular Christian Televangelists will be stranded in a remote location and forced to survive the elements and each other.  In the exciting conclusion of each program one televangelist will be voted off the network.

When searching for a location, it was determined that Hard Times Farms near Tracy, MN would be the perfect winter location for the series.  Each televangelist will have to brave the sub-zero temperatures and windchills of the Minnesota prairie as they seek to outpreach, outsing and outfundraise each other in attempts to be come the ultimate Survivor who will become the sole host of the Praise the Lord Program for one whole year.

Each member was allowed one personal item.  Robert Schuller tried to bring the Crystal Cathedral as his, but it just wasn't possible.  Kenneth Copeland chose to bring his jet; Dino brought a grand piano;Jan Crouch brought a pink wig.

One of the twists in this show is that each televangelist is forced to go through Roy Syverson's Crisis Management Seminars.  Part of that training of course includes working with Roy around the farm.  This was determined to be one of the most difficult parts of the whole Survival experience.

Forced to bunk in the hayloft of the old red barn, tensions between the survivors have already been seen.  When Rod Parsley saw the sagging rafters in the barn, he said something about "repairing the breach"...and Jesse DuPlantis told him: "I know something about breach...I was born Breach....I don't want you getting anywhere near my breach."

 At which point, Marilyn Hickey said, "  Did you say beach? I would really like to be on the beach right now, it must 50 below zero.....brrrr it's cold."  At that point John Hagee began a discourse on how the cold weather must be some sign of the end times and Hal Lindsey of course agreed with John on that point....but after a long discussion they got into a major disagreement on whether the ashes of the red heifer had been found yet or not.  Charles Stanley heard the upraised voices and ran over to mediate...."Listen....Listen....Listen", he said, but they refused to listen.

About that time, Roy Syverson, who is the host of the Series, invited the whole group to participate in their first immunity challenge.  The person who wins cannot be voted off the network that week.  He explained the game to them.  They each had 15 minutes and a pitchfork.  The televangelist who shoveled the most manure into the spreader at the end of the 15 minutes would be the winner.  When it was all said and done, there was a lot more said than done...but John Jacobs of the Power Team was the clear winner.  Benny Hinn was disqualified from this round, because he kept touching the others and he had such a powerful anointing that they would fall to the ground and weren't able to finish the competition.  It was thought that this was an unfair advantage.

Stay tuned next week to see who is voted off the network in the next edition of "Ministry Survival"! 
 

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