Billy Graham Research Paper
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Billy Graham has held crusades around the world and has preached to many different nationalities and religions. He has changed hearts and lives by sharing the word of God. Past and present celebrities, presidents, and world leaders have looked to Graham for counseling and in turn, Graham has forged lasting relationships with them. He has spoken to over 215 million people in many countries, cities, and territories worldwide. Billy Graham has done more to spread the Gospel of Christ and unify people around the globe than anyone before, or since.
William Franklin Graham Jr. had humble beginnings. The first of four children, Billy Graham was born on November 7, 1918 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Graham’s lived in a modest farmhouse with no indoor bathrooms or running water. Graham had many chores to do on the dairy farm every morning. He woke up around 2:30 every morning to milk twenty cows, shovel manure, and refill troughs. He would then take the milk over to his Uncle Clyde’s house in order to bottle and sell it. Graham had to work hard on the family farm in order to help his family bring in more money. At that time, no one would have ever guessed that he would go on to become one of the world’s greatest evangelists. …show more content…
He was smart, but he spent his time on other interests, which included baseball, girls, and fast cars (Wooten, 2001). Because of this, some of his teachers even worried that he might not graduate with his class. Graham said that he “had a rebellious heart and mind… I understood little and resented my parents, my teachers, my humdrum life as a farmhand and high-school student” (Wooten, 2001, p. 17). Even though Graham would go on to be a loving, caring, follower of Christ, he spent the beginning of his teen years in rebellion. These years of rebellion were about to turn around though because he was about to attend a life-changing
Billy Graham has held crusades around the world and has preached to many different nationalities and religions. He has changed hearts and lives by sharing the word of God. Past and present celebrities, presidents, and world leaders have looked to Graham for counseling and in turn, Graham has forged lasting relationships with them. He has spoken to over 215 million people in many countries, cities, and territories worldwide. Billy Graham has done more to spread the Gospel of Christ and unify people around the globe than anyone before, or since.
William Franklin Graham Jr. had humble beginnings. The first of four children, Billy Graham was born on November 7, 1918 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Graham’s lived in a modest farmhouse with no indoor bathrooms or running water. Graham had many chores to do on the dairy farm every morning. He woke up around 2:30 every morning to milk twenty cows, shovel manure, and refill troughs. He would then take the milk over to his Uncle Clyde’s house in order to bottle and sell it. Graham had to work hard on the family farm in order to help his family bring in more money. At that time, no one would have ever guessed that he would go on to become one of the world’s greatest evangelists. …show more content…
He was smart, but he spent his time on other interests, which included baseball, girls, and fast cars (Wooten, 2001). Because of this, some of his teachers even worried that he might not graduate with his class. Graham said that he “had a rebellious heart and mind… I understood little and resented my parents, my teachers, my humdrum life as a farmhand and high-school student” (Wooten, 2001, p. 17). Even though Graham would go on to be a loving, caring, follower of Christ, he spent the beginning of his teen years in rebellion. These years of rebellion were about to turn around though because he was about to attend a life-changing