William Franklin "Billy" Graham Jr. was born on November 7, 1918 and is currently still living today. Today he lives to be 91 years old, and to be 92 years old this year, 2011. "Billy" Graham was known throughout the world for being a worldwide evangelists in the 1900's. He launched many Crusades in many different countries preaching the gospel of God to the churches and fellow brethren. Graham was also known for assisting many of the presidents of the United States from President Harry Truman, to the current President of America, Barack Obama. He has given advice to the Presidents about spirituality and their faith in God as leaders of the country. He was born and introduced to Christ through being a Southern Baptist in America and grew his fame as he began preaching through the radio and television through recognition from various famous Christian leaders of the world. Graham was known for saving many people's lives of the world in the year, 1993. During that year, more than 2.5 million people stood up in his Crusades confessing and believing in Jesus Christ as their Lord. He was also known to be one of the greatest and most influential role models throughout not only the Christian society, but also worldwide through convincing many people to accept Jesus Christ into their lives.
Billy Graham's Crusades
Graham is probably known by many pastors and Christian leaders in the world because of his Crusades. Since 1948, he would launch Crusades worldwide, and he would lead them, himself by renting a stadium, park, street, etc. The number of people would gradually grow and more and more people would be interested in his Crusades every time he went around the city. Graham used a method of asking many people in the audience to come and step forward, as he and his prayer supporters would come and help him and pray for the person who was sick, or was in serious need of prayer. Over 155,000 people would come upstage in almost every Crusade to receive prayer from him and his team, and receive God's blessing. Many people admired him throughout this one decision that he made while doing Crusades. Graham was offered a 5 year contract with NBC being with Arthur Godfrey for 5 million dollars in salary. However, he declined the offer because he wanted to continue doing what God planned for him to do, launch and succeed in Crusades.
Later years and his works
Billy Graham helped many famous people in 1900's. One of them who was Martin Luther King Jr. At that time, Martin Luther King Jr. was in prison for launching civil rights movements through marching through the streets and disrupting the public with their "unreliable" complaints to the government. Billy Graham helped pay the money for the release of Martin Luther King Jr. which proved to be a very good decision. After that, King would be preaching the the Lincoln Memorial to many people and would change history forever. Billy Graham also helped many Presidents and also foreign conflicts. One of the foreign missions that he was sent to do was to go to North Korea and evangelize there. However, like many missions, this one came to be not such a major success, but enough of a success to spark a light of hope in the North Korean people that God was helping them. He also visited Korea, which over one million people attended his Crusade, causing a huge impact on the country. Today, because of his failure in health, and his decreasing of hearing and seeing, he has retired, but still works on preaching the Word of God whenever he can. In the future, it is said that Billy Graham will probably do a televised series of Evangelism through via television and making the broadcast worldwide. Graham has preached to over millions upon millions of the world, and God has and will use him for more in the promising future.
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