Jones organized a mammoth religious convention to take place June 11–15, 1956, in Indianapolis' Cadle Tabernacle. Needing a well-known religious figure to draw crowds, he arranged to share the pulpit with Rev. William M. Branham, a healing evangelist and religious author who was as highly revered as Oral Roberts. Jones was able to begin his own church after the convention, which had various names until it became the Peoples Temple Christian Church Full Gospel, later shortened to the Peoples Temple. He was ordained as a minister in 1957 by the Independent Assemblies of God and in 1964 by the Disciples of Christ.