This decision card documented the personal commitment to Christ that Billy Graham made 80 years ago on November 1, 1934, just days before his 16th birthday, at a Mordecai Ham revival in Charlotte, North Carolina. During Ham’s invitation on the last verse of the final hymn of the night, Billy went forward and dedicated his …
These guns belonged to two gang members who came to Christ after hearing Billy Graham’s message at the 1957 New York Crusade. The men turned the guns in following the crusade.
This framed cross was made from the sawdust on the floor of the tent during Billy Graham’s Los Angeles Crusade, held September through November 1949. That crusade pushed Graham into the spotlight when newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst made it a front-page story in the Los Angeles Times.
Ruth Bell Graham handmade her own dress, as well as her trousseau, for her August 13, 1943 wedding to Billy Graham. She filled this scrapbook with memorabilia from their wedding and honeymoon to Boone, North Carolina, including a handful of rice thrown by guests, and a piece of the cereal box from their first breakfast …
Billy Graham wore these boots when he visited U.S. troops in Korea, Christmas 1952. They were issued to him by the military, given that temperatures in the region often dropped below zero. Billy Graham said of visit, “I wept more in Korea than in all the past several years put together. These experiences changed my …
A Pocket Index of Bible references, given to Billy Graham by his father, William Franklin Graham, Sr., on September 8, 1936, on the first day of classes at Bob Jones College, Cleveland Tennessee. Inscription reads, “Billy Graham, Jr. Presented to me by my loving father, on September 8, 1936, first day I entered Bob Jones …
In Just As I Am Billy Graham writes, “At the close of a preaching series at Sharon Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, those dear people gave me, as I recall, an offering of $165.00. I raced right out and spent almost all of it on an engagement ring with a diamond so big you could almost …
Throughout the years, crusades began to grow larger and larger, and the number of people coming forward to receive Christ continually increased. In response, Billy Graham asked Dawson Trotman, who worked at the Navigators, to help him develop a system that would give these people the opportunity to experience discipleship and growth. The Navigators already …
In 1974 Billy Graham was invited to hold a crusade in Phoenix, Arizona, at a stadium on the campus of Arizona State University. During one of the services, Reverend Tom Claus presented Billy Graham with a ceremonial Native American headdress. Several Indian tribes in the Phoenix area were involved in the preparations for the crusade …
For many years Sterling Huston directed Mr. Graham’s crusades in the USA and Canada. In his book, Crusade Evangelism and the Local Church, he clearly states, “Prayer is the first priority in Evangelism. People, methods, and materials are instruments, and it is only through prayer that these instruments become effective by the empowering of the …