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Feb 21, 2018 · Billy Graham and Ruth Bell met at Wheaton College in the fall of 1940. A vivacious and feisty beauty who had grown up in China as the daughter of Presbyterian medical missionaries, Ruth was the...
Billy Graham on the Prayers and Influence of His Mother. Morrow Graham with her children: Jean, Melvin, Billy and Catherine. Writing in Just As I Am, Billy Graham shared several stories that point to the important role his mother played in shaping his life.
Nov 2, 2023 · On Aug. 13, 1943, Billy Graham married Ruth McCue Bell, a fellow student at Wheaton College in Illinois. Ruth was the daughter of a missionary surgeon and spent the first 17 years of her life in China. The couple was married in Montreat, North Carolina.
- There Is Dignity in Hard Work
- A Mother’s Prayers Are Powerful
- Spend Time in God’s Word Every Day
- Start Reading at A Young Age
- Marriage Is Worth Fighting For
- Even The Best Parents Make Mistakes
- Finish Well
“I was taught that laziness was one of the worst evils, and that there was dignity and honor in labor,” Billy Graham wrote in his autobiography, Just As I Am. From an early age, he saw his mother working hard for her family, whether she was chopping wood for the stove or handling the bookkeeping for the family farm. “My mother was a woman who worke...
“What a comfort it was for me to know that no matter where I was in the world, my mother was praying for me,” Billy Graham said. From the time he was a child, his parents would pray often and earnestly for him and his siblings. “Every time my parents prayed for their sons and daughters, they were declaring their dependence on God for the wisdom and...
“She and my father didn’t have much education … but my mother was a woman of God,” Billy Graham said on Mother’s Day in 2003. In his autobiography Just As I Am, Mr. Graham wrote: “When [my parents] read the family Bible together in our home, they were not simply going through a pious ritual. Mother told us that they had established a family altar w...
“At home, from my earliest years, Mother encouraged me in the habit of reading,” Billy Graham wrote in Just As I Am. “The exploits of Robin Hood in Sherwood Forest entranced me. I read the whole Tom Swift series, and the Rover Boys. Among my favorite adventure reading were the Tarzan books; they came out every few months. I could hardly wait for th...
“There had to have been tensions between Daddy and Mother, from time to time, that we children were not supposed to see,” Billy Graham wrote in his autobiography. But he never heard his parents use a word of profanity, and they always found a way to work out their disagreements. “My mother and father (mostly my mother) could storm at each other onc...
Billy Graham and his siblings grew up in a Christian home, but their parents weren’t perfect. Like all parents, they made mistakes. One such mistake was a dangerous one that happened when Billy was a child. “Once when I was sick, Mother thought she was giving me cough medicine, but she gave me iodine instead,” he wrote in Just As I Am. A quick phon...
“Although the testimony of my mother’s life helped mold me and taught me how to live, the testimony of her last years and her death gave me insight into how to die,” Billy Graham wrote. In her later years, when her health declined and her husband had passed away, Morrow Graham made a point of praying and listening to Scripture every morning. “On Au...
Lotz was born Anne Morrow Graham, in 1948 in Asheville, North Carolina. Lotz is the second of the five children born to Billy and Ruth Graham. The Graham Family had settled near Ruth's parents in Montreat in what remains today as the Graham Family Home, Little Piney Cove.
Feb 22, 2018 · The children from left to right: Franklin, 5; Ruth, 7; Gigi, 12; and Anne, 9. On Aug. 13, 1943, Billy Graham married Ruth McCue Bell, a fellow student at Wheaton College in Illinois. Ruth was the daughter of a missionary surgeon and spent the first 17 years of her life in China.
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Billy Frank, as he was called as a child, grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina, expecting to follow the lifestyle of his father and grandfathers. Frank and Morrow Graham owned a 300-acre dairy farm, and early on, their children were initiated into the routine of farm life.
