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May 15, 2017 · Sixty years ago—on Saturday, May 11, 1957—38-year-old Billy Graham arrived in New York City. That evening he held a press conference at the Hotel New Yorker and was interviewed by Walter Cronkite for the CBS Evening News. It had been eight years since the lanky, telegenic, Southern fundamentalist-evangelical evangelist had burst unto the ...
- On The Ferry
- In The Subway
- Final Answer
- A Snowy Pennsylvania Wedding
- 49 Years and Counting
In a city of 7.8 million, with 250,000 people attending the Crusade that week, the odds of Paul and Carol running into each other again were not good. They both kept busy, with Carol in the choir and Paul serving as a trained Crusade counselor. His job was to talk and pray with people who walked down to the arena floor when Billy Graham invited the...
When they got off the boat in Manhattan, everyone went down into the subway to head back to where they came from. Instead of exiting with his friend, Paul asked if Carol wanted to keep riding around and talking. They may have both been a little surprised when she agreed. “It was just us riding the subway in New York City,” Carol said. Plus, a few o...
Once the pair returned to their homes, they spent hours on the phone together. Paul also liked to send the occasional message via the postal service. But don’t picture a long, sappy love letter. One of his greetings was in the form of a small, square-shaped piece of lumber with a knothole in the middle of it. “I wrote her a brief note on one side o...
Much could be written about all the ways God fit the puzzle pieces together over the next few months, leading Paul and Carol to bump up their summer 1970 wedding date to Dec. 27, 1969. (Paul said the astronomical long-distance phone bills played a role in the date change.) When the new date arrived, a rare Christmastime nor’easter dumped snow acros...
To sum up the 49 years that followed, Paul and Carol have served the Lord together. “God called us into starting churches, and that was our longtime job,” Carol said. For 17 years they helped plant churches in Pennsylvania, Oregon and New Hampshire through Southern Baptist Home Mission Board. After that, they moved to Texas where Carol worked as a ...
The 1957 Billy Graham Crusade in New York City was scheduled to last six weeks but went on for 16 weeks, from May 15-Sept. 1. More than 2 million people saw Billy Graham preach the Gospel that summer in the heart of the Big Apple.
Aug 8, 2008 · Graham declined invitations in 1951 and 1954 to preach in New York City, because he judged those invitations not representative of the city's diverse Christian makeup.
Feb 21, 2018 · — 2005: Hosted dedication ceremony with son Franklin at new headquarters of Billy Graham Evangelistic Association in Charlotte, N.C. Preached last New York City crusade. — 2007: Billy Graham ...
On June 24–26, 2005, Graham began what he said would be his last North American crusade: three days at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in the borough of Queens, New York City. On the weekend of March 11–12, 2006, Graham held the "Festival of Hope" with his son, Franklin Graham .
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Oct 17, 2024 · Billy Graham died on February 21, 2018, in Montreat, North Carolina. Billy Graham (born November 7, 1918, Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S.—died February 21, 2018, Montreat, North Carolina) was an American evangelist whose large-scale preaching missions, known as crusades, and friendship with numerous U.S. presidents brought him to ...
