{"id":981,"date":"2018-03-20T18:31:57","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T11:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chiang-mai-orality.net\/?p=981"},"modified":"2024-01-31T18:33:09","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T11:33:09","slug":"billy-graham-and-urbana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chiang-mai-orality.net\/?p=981","title":{"rendered":"Billy Graham and Urbana"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I just got word that Billy Graham passed into glory at 99 years old. I immediately thought of the impact that his life had on me as a young Christian. I grew up watching Graham before color TV in Oklahoma and followed his exploits around the globe (total of 185 countries). As a world renowed evangelest, the Urbana Mission Conference of 1976 asked him to be the plenary speaker ).<\/p>\n

Urbana is a tri-annual conference, which I had the privilege of attending three years previously, along with 17,000 other young people who were seeking to discern God\u2019s will for their life and ministry. At that Urbana I signed a card smaller than a post card, yet that decision card propelled me to eventually apply with OMF in 1978. I am now 40 years into that journey. Some thirty years after my first Urbana I found myself again at this conference as a OMF mobilizer. OMF almost rejected me since the conference was a \u201cyoung peoples conference\u201d and they were looking for younger mobilizers. This time I was accompanied by my wife and three of my four children. Two of my children were impacted for missions at that Urbana with one ending up as a missionary to muslims in Albania and a second presently preparing for a possible ministry as a mission pilot. Billy Graham\u2019s Radio program I watched as a youth was called, \u201cThe Hour of Decision\u201d. The decision card I signed in 1973 expressed my \u201chour of decision\u201d for missions, a decision that I hope this generation will consider seriously as they discern God\u2019s will for their life and ministry.<\/p>\n

Recordings Urbana conference 1976<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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