Background
Finkenbinder was the son of Frank and Aura Finkenbinder, both missionaries, and was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico. He grew up speaking both English and Spanish.
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Education
He studied at Zion Bible Institute in East Providence, Rhode Island and at Central Bible College in Springfield, Missouri.
Career
He created and for many years ran the program "Un mensaje a la conciencia" ("A Message to the Conscience"). He began a radio ministry, Latin American Radio Evangelism, in 1955, and in 1960 added a television program, which reportedly had 100,000 weekly viewers in
After 21 years of living and evangelizing in, Finkenbinder and his family relocated to Costa Mesa,, where they established the ministry headquarters in 1964. He would remain in for the duration of his life, although he continued to travel extensively throughout Latin America in support of crusades and special evangelistic events.
He received an honorary doctorate from Southern College in Costa Mesa (now Vanguard University of Southern ) in 1993.
In 1997 the program was reported to air "on more than 2,000 radio stations and in more than 27 countries". The ministry states that all the airtime on both radio and television are donated, and estimates that the current value of radio and television airtime donated has been as high as $64 million.
Later in the evening, however, he complained of a severe headache, and he was taken to the hospital where he slipped into a coma. He died in the morning hours of January 27, 2012.
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Religion
Christian