George Beverly Shea

program from another Chicago area pastor. He then started preaching every Sunday in the evenings, but he knew that him being knew to the radio wasn’t going to attract and convince many people to listen so he tried to convince George Beverly Shea to join him which Shea was a popular Christian singer at the time ( paragraph 4, Billy Grahams staff) After Gram graduated from college Graham became a pastor in the first Baptist church

just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ,” he said. The Graham Team Graham wasn’t alone in his rise to become one of the most iconic American figures of the past century. George Beverly Shea, a Canadian-born gospel singer and songwriter who proudly became an American citizen in 1941, and singer and organizer Cliff Barrows made the evangelistic outreaches, as well as the worldwide television and radio ministry, possible. Ruth Bell

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