When was billy graham saved

Graham, who died Wednesday at the age of 99, credited his conversion to the work of Mordecai Ham, a native of Allen County, Kentucky, and one of the most fiery and controversial evangelists of his generation. Ham preached a revival series in Charlotte, North Carolina in , when Graham was a teenager living nearby.

Related: Billy Graham, America's pastor, has died. Read more: Why almost everyone wants to say thank you to legendary Billy Graham. Graham preached four crusades — as his mass revivals were known — across 45 years in Kentucky. Graham was also familiar with Indiana audiences, leading crusades in Indianapolis in , and and in South Bend in See also: Billy Graham's most notable quotes. Related: Billy Graham wowed those who witnessed him.

With the advent of digital media and the internet, BGEA began engaging people with the Gospel message online. Since , more than On the final night of Mr. Some will be eternally lost, some eternally saved. We are saved through Jesus, if we put our faith in Him. Have you accepted Christ? This is the story of how Billy Graham—a man used by God to reach millions of people for Jesus Christ—was himself born again.

Quotes are taken from his autobiography , Just As I Am. Mordecai Ham, a traveling evangelist, to hold a series of revival meetings in Charlotte, North Carolina. Thousands flocked to hear Dr. A while later, his interest in the revival piqued after reading an article in which Dr. Ham claimed local high schoolers were participating in immoral activity during school hours. Rumors flew that angry students planned to march on the tabernacle and demonstrate right in front of the platform.

And that maybe they would even injure Dr. Just As I Am recounts the moment:. But how could I save face after holding out for nearly a month? That put a little different slant on things. I like a fighter. His friend offered another incentive—letting Billy Graham drive his old vegetable truck into town for the meeting. Ham began preaching, loudly, Billy Graham recalled. In some indefinable way, he was getting through to me.