Televangelist Rev. Jimmy Swaggart remains in critical condition after suffering cardiac arrest over the weekend.

“At this time, we are in a holding pattern, and there has been no change in Brother Swaggart’s condition,” his son Donnie Swaggart said in video announcement Wednesday evening. “We ask that you continue to pray and intercede on his behalf.”

Swaggart, 90, pioneered televangelism in the 1980s, broadcasting his Pentecostal sermons and gospel music to a worldwide audience.

The preacher was hospitalized June 15 after suffering cardiac arrest at his Louisiana home that morning, family members said during a prayer service.

Family members found Swaggart unresponsive around 8 a.m. Sunday morning and gave him chest compressions until emergency staff were able to get a heartbeat back. He remains in the intensive care unit at a local hospital.

“Without a miracle, his time will be short,” Swaggart said.

“But we believe God. We’re not giving up. We’ve already told the doctors we don’t want to hear anything from them. We will make decisions in our own time. But we’re going to give the Lord an opportunity to work.”

Swaggart is a native of Ferriday, Louisiana. He currently serves as co-pastor of the Family Worship Center in Baton Rouge.

He is married to Frances Swaggart, with whom he shares one son, three grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. He is also a cousin of the late singer Jerry Lee Lewis.

Swaggart built a televangelism empire in the 1980s, racking up contributions of $150 a year at the height of his career, according to reports. He debuted his first gospel track in 1958 and has released nearly 50 albums since then.

Known for his fiery sermons, Swaggart was a leading figure of the Christian Right, actively preaching against adultery, divorce, homosexuality and abortion. In 2024, Swaggart came under fire for a sermon in which he criticized Black churches for voting for a party that he claimed was “anti-God.”

Swaggart’s career has long been marked by controversy. In 1988, he temporarily left the pulpit after confessing to adultery in his infamous “I have sinned” speech. Church officials had received photographs from a rival televangelist, Marvin Gorman, that showed Swaggart entering and leaving a motel with a sex worker.