Here’s how you can leave a message for Billy Graham’s family

Although she doesn’t remember all the details from that time, more than 60 years later, one thing still stands out.

“I cried when I got the news”, Lotz said. “Accept the free gift of eternal life and live forever in Heaven with the Lord!” Rev. “I felt embarrassed, I came from a family of Pakistani Christians who were very well known in our community”.

Many High Country residents remember, too, his appearance at Grandfather Mountain in August, 1962 for the 38 Annual Singing on the Mountain, the only time in the event’s history that the date was changed from its longstanding last Sunday in June, to accommodate Graham’s schedule. “His legacy would continue, he was a great man, great soul and great departure”. Graham will be only the fourth private citizen to lie in honor.

That is why it is so disturbing, vile and obscene to witness the Pandora’s box of pure evil some on the left have opened to not only try to smear the reputation of Billy Graham, but to desecrate his memory.

Graham’s wife of 64 years, Ruth, preceded him in death in 2007.

Graham’s body was moved Wednesday from his home in Montreat to Asheville, where a funeral home is handling the arrangements, DeMoss said. “And that could happen any day”, Franklin Graham recounted Billy Graham saying to Newsweek over 10 years ago.

At first ambivalent about the civil rights movement in the United States, he became more sympathetic in the 1950s, preaching to racially integrated congregations.

In a 1979 interview I conducted with him for a book called “Public Persons and Private Lives: Intimate Interviews”, Graham told me that the accolades he had received shocked him because he did not feel worthy to preach. “His faith has become sight”.

William Franklin Graham Jr. was on November 7, 1918 in Charlotte, North Carolina to parents who were farmers. He will lie in repose Monday and Tuesday in the Charlotte house where he grew up. His casket will remain closed. This schedule may be adjusted if necessary for any reason.

Later on I was smart enough to watch Bill Graham of my own accord, and I now have a whole library of his sermons recorded. Abraham Lincoln was the next, in 1865.

United Kingdom singer Sir Cliff Richard, who announced he had become Christian at a Billy Graham event in London in 1966, said the world had lost someone special. Invitations to the funeral will be extended to President Donald Trump and former presidents, DeMoss said. In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be made to the ongoing ministry of evangelism at the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, online at BillyGraham.org or via mail, sent to the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, 1 Billy Graham Parkway, Charlotte, NC 28201.

Graham’s public profile was raised in the United States when he held a two-month ministry in a giant tent in Los Angeles in 1949.

Launching to honor the late preacher’s life, “The Billy Graham Tribute Channel” debuted on Wednesday, Feb. 21, at 12 p.m. ET and runs through Sunday, March 4, on SiriusXM channel 145 on satellite and via streaming. But as I continued to read twitter blasts on the subject I was shocked – although nothing should shock me in 2018 – to read posts filled with venom and hate.