Graham

After finishing history with Sarah, I picked a subject that we learned in history and wrote a story about it!  Billy Graham is the paper!

Billy Graham

Raised in a godly Christian home, Billy Graham went on to have a full life of ministry and influence the world.  In 1918 Billy Graham was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, and he grew up on his parents’ dairy farm.  His parents were William Franklin and Morrow Coffey Graham.  At age fifteen he gave his life to Jesus Christ.  Billy Graham attended Bob Jones College in Tennessee where he graduated.  Sunday night, March 28, 1937, Graham preached his first sermon.  After he moved to Wheaten, Illinois, he continued to speak there. All of Graham’s early life experiences made him into a great man of faith.

Billy Graham was a missionary. Every day he looked for people who needed help and talked face to face with them about the Lord.  To prepare for his talk, he memorized a paragraph from another preacher’s sermon and then practiced the paragraph out loud to himself.  He passionately reached out to people with sad hearts and talked about the Lord.  He spoke through television and in stadiums.  Billy Graham traveled through America and also toured Europe for a time, continuing his mission work. 

Billy Graham’s parents influenced him more than anybody, and their example led to his impact on the nations. Of all the people in his life, his mom influenced him the most by praying for him every morning at ten o’clock.  Billy Graham also spoke with Barack Obama about the Lord.  Obama said that Billy Graham impacted him so much that he became a Christian.  His preaching was so powerful that it reached over three million hurting hearts.  After World War II, Billy Graham preached at Chicago’s Soldier Field to a crowd of sixty-five thousand people.  He has influenced many of the presidents of the United States. No one in the past century has surpassed the achievements of Billy Graham for the kingdom of God.