Editing Alamo Christian Foundation (section)

==Founders==
'''Tony Alamo''' (September 20, 1934 – May 2, 2017) was born '''Bernie Lazar Hoffman''' to a [[Jews|Jewish]] family in [[Joplin, Missouri]].<ref name="NYTimes2017"/><ref name="Time2017" /> At the age of nine years old he was abandoned at the [[Boys Town (organization)|Father Flanagan Boys Town]], where he claimed to have been abused for his Jewish ancestry. He grew up there and went to local schools, but later, he migrated to the West Coast, where he adopted Christianity as his faith.

By the 1960s, he had settled in [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]], where he performed as a pop singer under the names Mark Hoffman and Marcus Abad. He was a petty criminal who was convicted of statutory rape, burglary, and theft before he was 21 years old. He also claimed to be a music promoter<ref name="NYTimes2017"/> and owned the Little Mark, Alamo, and Talamo Records record labels.<ref name="Tucker">{{cite book |author=Tucker, Ruth A. |title=Another Gospel: Cults, Alternative Religions, and the New Age Movement |publisher=Zondervan |year=1989 |isbn=978-0310404408 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/anothergospelalt00tuck/page/358 358-59] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/anothergospelalt00tuck/page/358 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://scvhistory.com/scvhistory/lw3595.htm|title=SCVHistory.com LW3595 &#124; People &#124; Tony Alamo: ''The Robot Walk,'' Advertisement and Audio File, 1964|website=scvhistory.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.45cat.com/label/talamo|title = Talamo Label Discography – USA – 45cat}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ugly-things.com/the-sons-of-adam-saturdays-sons-of-the-sunset-strip/|title=The Sons of Adam &#124; UglyThings Magazine|date=8 January 2014 }}</ref>

'''Susan Alamo''' (April 25, 1925 – April 8, 1982) was born '''Edith Opal Horn''' in [[Alma, Arkansas]]. Twice married and with a daughter, she moved to Hollywood and attempted to become an actress.<ref name=EncycArkansas/> She had Jewish roots, but was reared a Christian [[Church of the Nazarene|Nazarene]], never needing to convert from [[Judaism]] to [[Christianity]]; she became an [[Itinerant preacher|itinerant evangelist]], modeling her ministry after her idol [[Aimee Semple McPherson]] before she met Hoffman.<ref name="Tucker" />

After the couple divorced their respective spouses, Hoffman and Horn got married during a ceremony performed in [[Las Vegas Valley|Las Vegas]] in 1966. They legally changed their names to Tony Alamo and Susan Alamo.<ref name="PFO">{{cite journal|author1=Fisher, G. R.|author2=Goedelman, M. K.|name-list-style=amp|title=Remember the Alamo! - The Second Coming of Tony Alamo|journal=The Quarterly Journal|publisher=Personal Freedom Outreach|date=October–December 2001|url=http://www.pfo.org/VL21-NO4.PDF|volume=21|issue=4|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061014173009/http://www.pfo.org/rememberalamo.htm|archive-date=October 14, 2006|url-status=live}}</ref>