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According to 2014 data, Graham is the highest paid Samaritan's Purse employee at $622,252 annually and leads other charities in compensation. The preacher gave up a salary at the evangelistic association during the late economic downturn, but the leaders urged him to accept compensation again and he now receives increased retirement contributions as well as a regular salary. The evangelistic association reported 2013 revenues as $106.5 million and 2014 as $112,893,788. The five children — Virginia "Gigi" Graham, Anne Graham Lotz, Ruth Bell Graham, Franklin Graham and Nelson Edman "Ned" Graham — all have had involvement in Christian service, according to Samaritan's Purse.
He is president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and of Samaritan's Purse, an international Christian relief organization. Graham became a "committed Christian" in 1974 and was ordained in 1982, and has since become a public speaker and author. In less than two weeks, more than 65,000 people took part in the eight-city Tar Heel State Tour, filling fairgrounds, parks and stadiums to hear Good News in a time when our TVs, radios and social media feeds are full of discouraging news.
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"Food assistance is very necessary because shops do not work in the villages. The roads are very bad, there are no buses for local residents to go somewhere to find food," the partner said. "The transportation was destroyed by the war. Many people without money, electricity, water, and gas almost from the first days of the war. In villages that were under occupation, the food stocks that were in the houses have already run out or have been taken from them." Graham supported North Carolina Amendment 1, which was passed by a voter referendum on May 8, 2012, prohibiting same-sex marriage and all domestic partnerships. Graham responded to Obama's May 9, 2012, statement of support for same-sex marriage, saying, "President Obama has, in my view, shaken his fist at the same God who created and defined marriage. It grieves me that our president would now affirm same-sex marriage, though I believe it grieves God even more." Since the 2016 election, Graham has "become known, above all, as the most vociferous evangelical ally" of Trump. He has strongly opposed the impeachment process, calling it an "unjust inquisition".
Graham delivered his message of salvation through Jesus Christ to 215 million people in 185 countries, mostly over the latter half of the 20th century. In recent years the home has been available as a vacation rental, "allowing guests to experience the Grahams' young family life through a collection of original furnishings, books, photos and mementos," the release notes. "With two levels of living, the comfortable and well-maintained home is within walking distance to Montreat Conference Center and close to several picturesque walking trails and streams." Click on a thumbnail below to view a gallery of images and to download a low-resolution or high-resolution version of the image. "Have you ever wished you could start over and know what you know now?" Franklin Graham began his message.
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A signature of every Decision America stop is a short time of prayer over our country, including prayers for unity across political platforms. In dangerous areas, stores and shops have closed, leaving no way for people to buy food. Samaritan's Purse is distributing food through a network of churches across Ukraine.
He has preached to more than 7 million people in cities from Johannesburg, South Africa to Tupelo, Mississippi. Gigi Graham lives in Black Mountain, Anne Graham in Raleigh, Ruth Graham in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, and Franklin Graham near Boone. Ned Graham is based in Washington State and works frequently in China through East Gates Ministries International, where he serves as president. Her siblings were made aware of Ruth Graham's decision to sell and asked if they wanted to buy the home, Graham said. She did not approach the Charlotte-based Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, founded by her father and now run by her brother, Franklin Graham, about a sale or financial assistance, Ruth Graham said. North Carolina Lt. Gov. Dan Forest, along with his wife, were in the crowd Sunday for the eighth and final stop on the Decision America Tar Heel State Tour.
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In April 2011, Graham told ABC's This Week program that Donald Trump, who had recently declared an interest in the Republican nomination for the 2012 U.S. presidential race, was his preferred candidate. During an MSNBC Morning Joe interview on February 21, 2012, Graham said that Rick Santorum was most closely aligned to Christian values in his words and deeds and that Senator Santorum was certainly a Christian at heart. On President Obama, Graham said that he is "a fine man" but could not know whether the president was a Christian in his heart. Asked about Mitt Romney, Graham said that most Protestants do not view Mormonism as a Christian faith.
In a November 21, 2019, interview with Eric Metaxas, Graham suggested opposition to Trump was the work of a "demonic power". Graham came under criticism for comments he made about Islam in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks when he referred to Islam as "a very evil and wicked religion". Further criticism came on April 18, 2003, when he preached at a Good Friday service at the Pentagon. Graham has made controversial remarks against Islam saying "True Islam cannot be practiced in this country", to CNN's Campbell Brown in December 2009. Graham has also spoken of seeing the effects of the virus in his own organization.
In a statement, he explained the reason for the overwhelming need for food. Graham defended Russian President Vladimir Putin's "gay propaganda" law and has praised his leadership for "protecting children from any homosexual agenda or propaganda." The tweet was met with a strong negative response against Graham, much of which condemned Graham as a hypocrite for selective criticism of a Democratic candidate's perceived wrongdoings while remaining silent on those perceived of the incumbent Republican. Franklin conducted his first evangelistic event in 1989 and now conducts Franklin Graham Festivals around the world for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association .
In 2000, Franklin Graham was named chief executive officer of his father's ministry ("The Prodigal Son Comes Home"). He had his time in the dark, as a 48-year-old prodigal son was not always eager to take his father's path and preach the gospel. Franklin Graham was a self described bad boy who rebelled against his father's saintly ways. "I just felt that if I put myself into the pulpit, that it would be like a lightning rod for all these comparisons," Franklin said of becoming a preacher. Growing up with a famous father, who was gone on the road for months at a time, wasn't easy.
The adventurous boy who liked to fish and hunt was said to acquired his mischievous nature from his mother. "My mother was going to insist that I got up in time to get to school at a proper time," Graham said. "So I started locking my door so she couldn't come in, and she started sliding firecrackers under the door. She thought that was fun." Grahams boyhood grew into a young adulthood of rebellion, he lived the "fast life".
Many were invited to the events through a simple North Carolina-shaped invitation like this one. But an evangelist that worked with Billy had a different idea for Franklin. In 1989, John Wesley White talked Graham into preaching at a crusade in Juneau, Alaska. Things turned out differently than what Franklin expected."That night, after I preached, I felt in my heart God was calling me, and I had been resisting it really out of pride because I didn't want to be compared to my father, and that was the wrong reason," Graham said. Afterwards Franklin decided to devote 10 percent of his time preaching with his father's ministery. Soon Franklin's father at 82 got Parkinson's disease, many people questioned or resisted the suggestion of his son as successor.
His family sent him to Stony Brook, an elite Christian boarding school on Long Island, New York. He dropped out and was later expelled from another school, LeTourneau College in Longview, Texas, for keeping a female classmate out all night past curfew ("The Prodigal Son Comes Home"). Using traditional and social media and speaking opportunities, Franklin regularly speaks to current moral and social issues, challenging Christians to make a difference in the world. He also offers Biblical context and application to current national and world events. Through the organizations he leads he has been instrumental in helping people impacted by crises including the nine-eleven terrorist attacks, civil war and natural disasters.
The eldest son of Billy and Ruth Bell Graham, he serves as President and CEO of Samaritan's Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Under his leadership, Samaritan's Purse has met the needs of poor, sick, and suffering people in more than 170 countries. As an evangelist for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, he has led crusades around the world. Samaritan's Purse also reports some of the brave pastors and church leaders who are partners with the ministry are also taking this food into the conflict zone. These unsung heroes take buses, vans, and even their own vehicles, loaded with food and other relief supplies from Samaritan's Purse to people who are suffering during the conflict. All venues booked for Franklin Graham's planned eight-city 2020 UK tour cancelled his booking after protests by LGBTQ+ activists, petitions and requests from local councils.
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