F. F. Bosworth

===Depression-era pioneer===
When [[The Great Depression]] hit in 1929, money for large-scale meetings became scarce.  According to Bosworth's magazine "Exploits of Faith", it appears he still had large campaigns away from home through 1931, but after that his campaigns were closer to home.

Bosworth was friends with Paul Rader, one of the first radio evangelists, and Paul Rader was broadcasting on Chicago radio stations prior to 1929.  The first ad in Bosworth's magazine for a Bosworth radio program was in January 1930, indicating that his radio evangelism started in either late 1929 or early 1930.  He began with a program called the "Sunshine Hour".  Bosworth eventually established "The National Radio Revival Missionary Crusaders" as a [[nonprofit corporation]] in Illinois.  By the early to mid-1930s he was broadcasting regularly over radio stations in the [[Chicago]] area, including [[WYLL|WJJD]].  Bosworth's increased radio ministry in Chicago appears to coincide with Paul Rader's reduced broadcast frequency.  Due to financial problems, Paul Rader's last evangelistic broadcasts in Chicago were in 1933.  Bosworth continued to broadcast well into the 1940s.  There is a general gap in the information available on F. F. Bosworth and his radio ministry from the early 1930s to the mid-1940s, with the one available magazine of his from 1942 indicating that he was broadcasting from several stations across the country, and a 1963 article providing a general overview of Bosworth's radio ministry.<ref name="Blomgren"/>

During the 1930s and 1940s, it appears he also conducted many healing campaigns all over [[North America]] as finances permitted.<ref>Last chapter of the 9th edition of ''Christ the Healer''</ref>  F. F. Bosworth, as of 1950, commented that he had more than thirty years of great evangelistic campaigns, and fourteen years of this time conducted the National Radio Revival, and during which time received about a quarter of a million letters.<ref name="GiftsOfHealingPlus">{{cite book
  | last = Stadsklev
  | first = Julius
  | authorlink = Julius Stadsklev
  | title = A Prophet Visits South Africa
  | chapter = Ch 2-Gifts of Healing Plus-by Bosworth
  | publisher = Stadsklev
  | year = 1952}}</ref>

As mentioned by his son, R. V. Bosworth, in the final chapter of the 9th edition of ''Christ the Healer'', Bosworth found it difficult to travel during [[World War II]] due to [[gas rationing#Civilian rationing|gas rationing]], but also found it difficult not to preach.<ref name="christthehealer" />  Shortly after WWII he thought his ministry might be over and he retired to [[Florida]].<ref name="bosworthbio">{{cite web
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