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Article Archive/November 2009
Updated January 20, 2010
Reverend Billy Graham
Charlotte Native and World Renowned Evangelist
 By Jay Whipple/Trend Magazine
While driving along our tour route in the Dilworth Community on Charlotte’s Longest-Running Daily City Tour by Queen City Tours and Travel, you will come across Grace Covenant Church located at the corner of East Blvd. and South Blvd. This church is formerly known as Chalmers Memorial Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (ARP) and is where Billy Graham worshipped before leaving Charlotte in 1949 for Los Angeles, California to become a world-famous evangelist; with help from William Randolph Hearst – Hearst Publishing Company.
He is a native Charlottean who grew up on a dairy farm in South Charlotte – Today the Park Road Shopping Center is located there – and today lives at a retreat in the mountains of North Carolina called Montreat which is near Asheville, NC. He lost his wife of more than sixty years in June of 2007; Ruth Graham was 87 years old at the time, Billy Graham turned 91 in November of 2009. She is buried next to his new library which was dedicated at the end of May 2007. Former presidents James Earl Carter, Jr., George Herbert Walker Bush, and William Jefferson Clinton attended the grand opening.
His new library is located next to his new world ministries headquarters which he relocated to Charlotte from Minneapolis, MN, in 2004, after retiring a few years early. His son, Franklin Graham, is now in charge of his ministry. Billy Graham’s full name is William Franklin Graham, Jr. Franklin Graham founded the Samaritan’s Purse ministry which sends gifts to Third World Countries in shoeboxes. They have a warehouse just off I-77 South near Arrowood Road in South Charlotte.
Note: Reverend Graham's childhood home was saved from demolition by Jim Baker -- formerly of the Heritage USA PTL ministry of Fort Mill, SC.
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