Wallace Ray Davis

Wallace Ray Davis (December 3, 1949 – February 16, 2007), born in San Antonio, Texas, is best known as a Christian Television Pioneer having created and built the largest religious media agency in the world called . With over 130 ministries represented he was known by many in the industry as a master architect of success in the world of broadcast Evangelism.

Early life[]

Ray Davis was born in San Antonio, Texas to Herbert Wallace Davis and Aaron Karr. His father who was a soldier in the U.S. Air Force deployed and the family moved to Tripoli when Ray was thirteen. In 1968 he was a Freshman at Lee College in Nashville, TN. and left school to marry Sylvia Katrina Webber and received his draft notice for the U.S. Army leading to a deployment to Okinawa. In 1978, he married Elizabeth Mary Zimmer.

Ministries represented[]

Ray Davis' firm Affiliated Media Group located in Jacksonville, Florida represented over 130 ministries to include:

• Benny Hinn Ministries
• Joel Osteen Lakewood Church

Death[]

Davis died on February 16, 2007 in Jacksonville, Florida from kidney failure after complications from a fifteen-month bout with cancer.^[1] Television coverage of the funeral was broadcast by First Coast News Channel 25 in Jacksonville, Florida.^[2] In 1992, Davis suffered a near death heart attack and would later receive a heart transplant after being diagnosed with cardio-myopathy in 1997. Ray Davis is survived by 6 children, 16 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

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