BRIAN & ANGELA

BILLY GRAHAM R.I.P ~ An Acrostic Sonnet

 

CLIFF BARROWS ~ BILLY GRAHAM ~ BEVERLY SHEA ~ SINGING 

AT THE SUNDERLAND (UK) CRUSADE IN 1984 !

 

BILLY GRAHAM ~ EVANGELIST 1918 ~ 2018

WHENEVER  you heard him Preaching ~ on record

LIVE  ~ on TV or on Film it was like

LISTENING  to the Voice of JESUS

YOU  listened with your Mind ~ Heart and your SOUL !

 

GRAHAM  was born in Charlotte North Carolina  ~ USA

RAISED  on a Diary Farm ~ He was champion Milker

AND HIS FAMILY  were devout Christians ~ Southern Baptists !

HE STUDIED  at Florida Bible College and Wheaton College

AT WHERE  he met his Wife Ruth ~ He became a Baptist Minister 

Married in  1946 ~ they had 5 children and 28 Grandchildren !  He

 

REACHED  billions of People through his Ministry ~ Many

IMPLEMENTED a DECISION to become Committed Christians

PERHAPS  there will never be another like BILLY GRAHAM !

 

Thanks for visiting ~ comments welcome ~ Love BRIAN XOX

 

Billy Graham began his CRUSADE MINISTRY in Los Angeles USA

in 1949 and visited London England in 1955 (7 weeks) and Glasgow

Scotland in 1956. He had over 400 Crusades in 185 Countries

ably assisted by Canadian Soloist George Beverley Shea and Cliff

Barrows ~ Both were also called Home to Glory recently ~ BEV 

(103) & CLIFF (94).  Billy\'s last Crusade was in 2005, continued

to write Books (28 in all many of which were bestsellers in many

languages).  Today the World mourns for one of History\'s greatest

Christian Crusaders ~ But we rejoice for His Ministry & Legacy and

for the fact that he is now in Heaven with his Saviour (Jesus Christ)

and  reunited with Ruth ~ George and Cliff ~ AMEN ~ Yours BRIAN