God's General: Billy Graham
From Samuel Godwin-Oburoh E.O. An excerpt from Wikipedia Billy Graham (November 7, 1918- February 21, 2018) Billy Graham, one of my spiritual fathers, started from humble beginnings; raised on a family dairy farm with his two younger sisters and younger brother. He started to read books from an early age and loved to read novels for boys, especially Tarzan . Like Tarzan, he would hang on the trees and gave the popular Tarzan yell , scaring both horses and drivers. According to his father, that yelling had led him to become a minister. Billy Graham had been turned down for membership in a local youth group for being "too worldly," when Albert McMakin, who worked on the Graham farm, persuaded him to go and see the evangelist Mordecai Ham. According to his autobiography, Graham was converted in 1934, at age 16 during a series of revival meetings in Charlotte led by Ham. Billy Graham preached his first sermon in 1937 at Bostwick Baptist Church,