4The Daily Tar HeelfThursday, September 23, 1982
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Billy Graham's World Emergency Fund has
given hundreds of thousands of dollars
to the hungry, the diseased and disaster
victims.
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1 anticipate Mr. Graham's lecture
scries because of who I am be
coming as a young adult. I tveU
come the spiritual challenge and
the intellectual rcaivalzcning that
the lecture scries will provoke
among those of us who will decide
the issues of the future for our
personal selves as well as our
nation." -
BILLY GRAHAM'S
CAMPUS MINISTRY
Last spring during his six-state New En
gland Crusade, Billy Graham traveled to
seven college campuses where thou
sands of students attended lectures in
which the evangelist applied the Gospel -message
of Jesus Christ to, subjects of
concern to young people today. At North
eastern University, The University of Mas-;
sachusetts, Yale University, Harvard
University, Harvard's John F. Kennedy
School of Government, Dartmouth Col
lege, Boston College, and Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Mr. Graham spoke
about such things as peace as he related
in clear, terms what the Bible says about
this subject on which the fate of nuclear
man hangs by a thread. Tough questions
and straight answers were the order of
the day when Mr. Graham and students
participated in an open forum following
his lecture at Harvard's John R Kennedy
School of Government.
The college auditoriums were filled with
near capacity crowds of attentive stu
dents. (At the University of Massachu
setts a huge crowd turned out despite the
fact that the lecture was given on the Fri
day night of a long holiday weekend.)
Chaplains and university leaders have de
scribed these meetings as "unique" and
"historic". "Many came to scoff," one edu
cator said, "but went away if not con
verted, at least confronted (with the
message of Christ) in a serious way."
Two years earlier, in 1980, Mr. Graham
conducted similar lecture series at Ox
ford and Cambridge Universities in En-,
gland. There, too, large numbers of ,
students turned out to hear the evangelist
relate the centuries-old Biblical message
to the desperate problems of the modern
world. At Oxford's Town Hall tickets were
snapped up within thirty-six hours of be
ing made available, and those unable to
get seats attended via television in five
overflow facilities.
When Mr. Graham spoke at Cambridge,
two students from UNC CH were in the
audience. They had gone to observe, and
what they saw and heard convinced them
that their own campus could also benefit
from such a lecture series. Mr. Graham's
late nephew, Sandy Ford, son of Billy Gra
ham Associate Evangelist. Leighton Ford
and a student at UNC CH, was instrumen
tal in inviting Mr. Graham here and in early
planning of the series. Now the idea born
two years ago in Britain and followed by
months of intensive prayer and effort on
the part of scores of students here on
campus, will become a reality on Monday
night with the opening of "Reason to
Live," Billy Graham's evangelistic lecture
series at The University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill.
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MISSION TO
MOSCOW
Billy Graham comes to UNC CH at the
height of an evangelistic ministry span
ning more than three "decades that has
taken his team and him to preach person
ally to millions of people in almost every
major country on every continent on
earth.; Countless millions more have re
ceived his message through television, ra
dio and films.
He is the first major western evange
list to preach behind the Iron Curtain since
' World War II. In 1977 he held evangelistic
meetings in Hungary and the following
year in Poland. In May of this year he made
his first preaching visit to the Soviet Union
where he preached the Gospel of Christ in
Moscow's Russian Orthodox Cathedral of
the Epiphany and the Moscow Baptist
Church. He also presented a major ad-"
dress at an international religious leader
ship conference on the perils of nuclear
war in Moscow, where he injected Bibli
cal perspectives into the nuclear arms
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The unprecedented Moscow visit gave Mr.
Graham the opportunity for private meet
ings with Soviet officials. He has declined
to discuss details.of these conversations
except to say that he shared his faith and
viewpoints with everyone he met, and
that such issues as human rights and in
ternational relations were discussed.
THE MAN AND T
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Growing up on his father's North Carolina
dairy farm during the Great Depression,
Billy Graham had no inkling that he would
become a world figure by virtue of being
its best known evangelist. His parents
- were deeply committed Christians but
"Billy Frank" was not particularly rell-
! gious and was thinking of becoming a
professional baseball player. Then, at age
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It will be a great way to show how '
Christ relates to modern times
from a reliable source."
sixteen, he took a step he now asks oth- .
ers around the world tofake: he accepted
Jesus Christ as Lord of his lrfeAJew
years later while attending Bible College
he sensed the call to preach. It was per
haps the most difficult decision of Billy's
life for it meant being willing to go any
where for God at any time. Then, too, he
had reservations about the emotionalism
in some areas of evangelism, and the pre
vailing view fostered by the film "Elmer
Gantry" that some evange
lists were using their ministries for finan
cial gain. But after much prayer he said
yes and the evangelistic ministry was
born.
Bible College had given Billy a solid foun
dation in the Scriptures but he was then,
as he is now, an avid reader and enthusi
astic learner, and he. added academic
background to his Biblical knowledge by
enrolling at Wheaton College in Illinois,
Wheaton gave him more than an educa
tion, it was there that Billy fell in love - at
first sight, he says with a beautiful
fellow student, Ruth McCue Bell, daugtv
ter of a missionary surgeon . in China. In .
1943 they were married.;
After graduating from college, Billy joined
"Youth for Christ," an organization that
took the message of Christ to young peo
ple during World War II. With "Youth for
Christ" he preached across the United
States and Europe, steadily
emerging as an evangelist.
While addressing a Bible conference in
North Carolina, Billy met a young song
leader named Cliff Barrows. Soon he be
gan holding citywide evangelistic meet
ings with Barrows; Grady Wilson, an old
preaching friend; and George Beverly
Shea, a well known Gospel singer.
In 1949 he conducted such a meeting in
Los Angeles and with this he unknow
ingly set in motion the chain of events
that would make him famous. The Los
Angeles meetings opened in September
scheduled to run for three weeks. Eight
weeks later after unprecedented crowds
had flowed through the tent at the corner
of Washington Boulevard and Hill Street,
they came to a triumphant conclusion.
The Los Angeles Examiner gave the meet-'-.
ings banner headlines which were picked
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MONDAY
SEPTEMBER 27
TUESDAY
SEPTEMBER
WEDNESDAY ,
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THURSDAY
SEPTEMBER 30
FRIDAY
OCTOBER 1
Billy Graham lectures on "Personal Peac
Special Guest: Bobby Jones, All Americr
Basketball Great now with Philadelphia I
A Drama by the A.D. Players
Question & Answer Period follows Mr. G
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Billy Graham lectures on "Intellect and F,
Special Guest: Doris Betts, Writer and T
A Drama by the A.D. Players
Billy Graham lectures on "The Universit
Special Guest: UNC Alumnus Mark Roe
Minister of Evangelism, Coral Ridge Pre
Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
A Drama by the A.D. Players
Biily Graham lectures on "Relationship:
Special Guest: Carl Winfield, Class of 11
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Billy Graham lectures on "The Reason t
Special Guest: Fran Knott, Class of 198
History-Speech-Communications Majc
A Drama by the A.D. Players
Billy Graham at Chapel Hill. A challenging experience.
The campus awaits the arrival of the vorld-f amous evangelist with two j
put it this way: "His coming really doesn't affect me because I havej
' already. I won't go to hear him because I've seen him on TV and I don'tj
. feel apathetic. His message just doesn't hold that much interest for m
Others say things like this: "I think it's really fantastic'that we get to
rcaSiy looking forward to hearing him speak. Someone with that much t
course, I'm going to go in there with an open mind."
The students of Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, in cooperation w
ships on campus, extended the invitation to Billy Graham to come I
sponsoring mis ouireacn s io give siuaenis ana ine universny comn
consider Jesus Christ as the reason to live. They chose Billy Graham
direct presentation of the Gospel message.
The student leadership of REASON TO LIVE has geared the outr
university community. The outreach will not, follow the traditional cr
presented as a series of five evangelistic lectures treating topics c
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In this University v;here competing truths are presented and tested, I
Jesus Christ who proclaimed Himself to be The Truth.
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