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Plan of Salvation:
John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his
only begotten Son, that whosoever shall believe
in him should not perish, but have everlasting
life.
Romans 10:9
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the
Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that
God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt
be saved.
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Official Obituary
he comforted his country and the
ing Jesus Christ. No one was more
that He came into the world to rec-
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Feb. 21,
world when he spoke at the National surprised than Graham himself.
oncile humanity to Himself, and
2018 - Evangelist Billy Graham
Cathedral in Washington, following “I was opposed to evangelism,” he
that his salvation is freely offered to
died today at 7:46 a.m. at his home the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. At
said. “But finally, I was persuaded
each person who will respond in
faith. The Gospel message explains
in Montreat. He was 99.
three global conferences held in
by a friend [to go to a meeting]…
Throughout his life, Billy Graham
Amsterdam (1983, 1986, 2000),
and the spirit of God began to speak that salvation is only possible
through the Crucifixion and Resur-
preached the gospel of Jesus Christ Graham gathered some 23,000
to me as I went back night after
to some 215 million people who at- evangelists from 208 countries and night. One night, when the invitation rection of Jesus. Through his sacri-
fice, Jesus paid the price for our sin-
tended one of his more than 400
territories to train them to carry the was given to accept Jesus, I just
fulness (rebellion against God), thus
Crusades, simulcasts and evangelis- message of Jesus Christ around the said, ‘Lord, I’m going.’ I knew I was offering us forgiveness. Then
tic rallies in more than 185 countries world.
headed in a new direction.”
through his Resurrection He con-
and territories. He reached millions During the week of his 95th birth-
Several years later, Graham’s “new quered death, removing it as the
more through TV, video, film, the
day in 2013, Graham delivered his direction” led him to the Florida Bi- penalty for our sin and replacing it
internet and 34 books.
final message via more than 480 tel- ble Institute (now Trinity College of with the offer of eternal life that is
Born Nov. 7, 1918, four days before evision stations across the U.S. and Florida), and later, Wheaton College only available from Him to all those
that place their faith in Him.
Pictured President George H.W. Bush, President Bill Clinton, Billy Graham, Franklin Graham and President Jimmy Carter all came together
for the dedication of the Billy Graham Library in 2007. Rev Billy Graham met with over 13 US Presidents and preached to millions.
Billy Graham, Evangelist to the World, Dead at Age 99
the armistice ended World War I,
William Franklin “Billy” Graham
Jr. grew up during the Depression
and developed a work ethic that
would carry him through decades of
ministry on six continents.
“I have one message: that Jesus
Christ came, he died on a cross, he
rose again, and he asked us to re-
pent of our sins and receive him by
faith as Lord and Savior, and if we
do, we have forgiveness of all of our
sins,” said Graham at his final Cru-
sade in June 2005 at Flushing Mead-
ows Corona Park in New York.
While Graham’s primary focus was
to take this message to the world, he
also provided spiritual counsel to
presidents, championed desegrega-
tion, and was a voice of hope and
guidance in times of trial. In 2001,
Canada. More than 26,000 churches
participated in this My Hope project,
making it the Billy Graham Evange-
listic Association’s largest evange-
listic outreach ever in North Ameri-
ca.
Preferred Baseball to Religion
Graham, a country boy turned world
evangelist, who prayed with every
U.S. president from Harry S. Tru-
man to Barack Obama, was raised
on a dairy farm in Charlotte. Back
then, “Billy Frank,” as he was
called, preferred baseball to reli-
gion. “I detested going to
church,” he said when recalling his
youth.
But in 1934, that changed. At a re-
vival led by traveling evangelist
Mordecai Fowler Ham, 15-year-old
Graham committed his life to serv-
in suburban Chicago, where he met
fellow student Ruth McCue Bell, the
daughter of medical missionaries in
China. The couple graduated and
married in the summer of 1943. Mr.
and Mrs. Graham and their five chil-
dren made their home in the moun-
tains of North Carolina. They were
married for 64 years before Ruth’s
death in 2007.
After two years of traveling as a
speaker for the Youth for Christ or-
ganization, Billy Graham held his
first official evangelistic Crusade in
1947; but it was his 1949 Los Ange-
les Crusade that captured the na-
tion’s attention. Originally sched-
uled to run for three weeks, the “tent
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Graham