Billy Graham: an obituary
From BBC News website.
[…] After the success of his ministry in the US, Graham wanted to take his message worldwide and he began the process in London in 1954.
It was a calculated risk. At the time only 10% of Britons were regular churchgoers, compared with 50% in the United States.
He also faced a hostile British press, which was scathing about the motives of the man from Charlotte, and he faced calls from one MP for him to be banned from entering the UK.
He conducted his first full-scale mission in a 12,000-seat auditorium next to a greyhound track at London’s Harringay Arena.
Such was the demand to hear him that he filled the arena every night for three months.
The final meeting of his UK crusade was held at Wembley Stadium, when 120,000 people heard Graham speak of the reception he had received in London.
“These meetings have been far beyond anything we had the faith to believe possible,” he told the crowd. “The spirit of God is moving across Great Britain as perhaps at no time in the last century.”
It was the beginning of what would be a series of missions to all parts of the globe.
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