List of Billy Graham's crusades

Graham at his crusade (1966)

Billy Graham's crusades – evangelistic campaigns conducted by Billy Graham between 1947 and 2005. Billy Graham conducted 417 crusades in 185 countries and territories on six continents. The first Billy Graham evangelistic campaign, held September 13–21, 1947, in the Civic Auditorium in Grand Rapids, Michigan, was attended by 6,000 people. He would rent a large venue, such as a stadium, park, or street. As the sessions became larger, he arranged a group of up to 5,000 people to sing in a choir. He would preach the gospel and invite people to come forward to ask Jesus to be there saviour and pray together. The inquirers were often given a copy of the Gospel of John or a Bible study booklet. In Moscow, in 1992, one-quarter of the 155,000 people in Graham's audience went forward at his call.[1] During his crusades, he has frequently used the altar call song, "Just As I Am".

Over 58 years, Billy Graham reached more than 210 million people (face to face and by satellite feeds) in over 185 countries and territories on six continents.[2] The longest Graham's evangelistic crusade took place in New York City in Madison Square Garden in 1957, which lasted 16 weeks.[3] The largest audience in the history of Graham's ministry assembled at Yoido Plaza in Seoul in South Korea in 1973 (ca. 1,1 million peoples).[4][5]

Graham's revival meetings were most commonly called "crusades," and were billed as such for decades, but Graham himself began calling them "missions" after the September 11 attacks due to a potentially offensive connotation of the word "crusade" among Muslims. "Following September 11th, there was increased consciousness of other faiths in the U.S. that would find the term 'crusade' offensive," Graham spokeswoman Melany Ethridge told The Associated Press in 2002. [6]

Billy Graham's son, Franklin Graham has continued his father's evangelist mission.

Chronological list

Number Date City Country
1947
1 Grand Rapids USA
2 Nov 9–23[7] Charlotte USA
1948
3 Augusta USA
4 Modesto USA
1949
5 Miami USA
6 Baltimore USA
7 Altoona USA
8 LA Crusade Sept 25 – Nov 20 Los Angeles USA
1950
9 Boston USA
10 Columbia USA
11 tour states of New England USA
12 Portland USA
13 Minneapolis USA
14 Atlanta USA
1951
15 tour South States USA
16 Fort Worth USA
17 Shreveport USA
18 Cincinnati USA
19 Memphis USA
20 Seattle USA
21 Hollywood USA
22 Greensboro USA
23 Raleigh USA
1952
24 Jan 13 - Febr 10[8][9] Washington, D.C. USA
25 tour April–May American cities USA
26 Houston USA
27 Jackson USA
28 tour August American cities USA
29 Pittsburgh USA
30 Albuquerque USA
1953
31 tour cities of Florida USA
32 Chattanooga USA
33 St. Louis USA
34 Dallas USA
35 tour West Texas USA
36 Syracuse USA
37 Detroit USA
38 Asheville USA
1954
39 London Crusade March 1 - May 29 London England
40 tour Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Helsinki, Paris, Stockholm Netherlands, BRD, Denmark, Finland, France, Sweden
41 Nashville USA
42 New Orleans USA
43 tour West Cost USA
1955
44 March–April Glasgow Scotland
45 tour Cities of Scotland Scotland
46 Mai London England
47 Paris France
48 Zürich Switzerland
49 Geneva Switzerland
50 Mannheim West Germany
51 Stuttgart West Germany
52 Nuremberg West Germany
53 Dortmund West Germany
54 Frankfurt West Germany
55 American bases in Germany West Germany
56 Rotterdam Netherlands
57 Oslo Norway
58 Göteborg Sweden
59 Aarhus Denmark
60 Toronto Canada
1956
61 tour India and Far East
62 Richmond USA
63 Oklahoma City USA
64 Louisville USA
1957
65 NY Crusade May 15 – Sept 1 New York USA
1958
66 tour Region of Caribbean See
67 San Francisco USA
68 Sacramento USA
69 Fresno USA
71 Santa Barbara USA
72 Los Angeles USA
73 San Diego USA
74 San Antonio USA
75[10] Sept 21 – Oct 26 Charlotte USA
1959
76 Febr 15 - March 15 Melbourne Australia
77 March 29 - April 4 Auckland New Zealand
78 April 12 - May 10 Sydney Australia
79 May 15–22 Perth Australia
80 May 17–31 Brisbane Australia
81 Adelaide Australia
82 March 30 - April 6 Wellington New Zealand
83 April 1 - 8 Christchurch New Zealand
84 Canberra Australia
85 Launceston Australia
86 Hobart Australia
87 Little Rock USA
88 Wheaton USA
89 Indianapolis USA
1960
90 Monrovia Liberia
91 Accra Ghana
92 Kumasi Ghana
93 Lagos Nigeria
94 Ibadan Nigeria
95 Kaduna Nigeria
96 Enugu Nigeria
97 Jos Nigeria
98 Brazzaville Congo
99 Bulawayo Zimbabwe
100 Harare Zimbabwe
101 Kitwe Zimbabwe
102 Moshi Tanzania
103 Kisumu Kenya
104 Bujumbura Burundi
105 Nairobi Kenya
106 Addis Abeba Ethiopia
107 Cairo Egypt
108 Jerusalem Jordan
109 Washington, D.C. USA
110 Rio de Janeiro Brazil
111 Bern Switzerland
112 Zürich Switzerland
113 Basle Switzerland
114 Lausanne Switzerland
115 Essen West Germany
116 Hamburg West Germany
117 Berlin West Germany
118[11] New York (for Spanish Americans) USA
1961
119 Jacksonville USA
120 Orlando USA
121 Clearwater USA
122 St. Petersburg USA
123 Tampa USA
124 Bradenton–Sarasota USA
125 Tallahassee USA
126 Gainesville USA
127 Miami USA
128 Cape Canaveral USA
129 West Palm Beach USA
130 Peace River USA
131 Boca Raton USA
132 Fort Lauderdale USA
133 Manchester England
134 Glasgow Scotland
135 Belfast Northern Ireland
136 Minneapolis USA
137 Philadelphia USA
1962
138 Jan – Febr tour South America
139 Raleigh USA
140 Jacksonville USA
141 Chicago USA
142 Seattle USA
143 Fresno USA
144 Redstone Arsenal USA
145 tour Sept – Oct South States USA
146 El Paso USA
1963
147 12–26 May Paris France
148 Lyon France
149 Toulouse France
150 Mulhouse France
151 Montauban France
152 Nancy France
153 Douai France
154 Nuremberg West Germany
155 Stuttgart West Germany
156 Los Angeles USA
1964
157 Birmingham USA
158 Phoenix USA
159 San Diego USA
160 Columbus USA
161 Omaha USA
162 September Boston USA
163 October Boston USA
164 Manchester USA
165 Portland USA
166 Bangor USA
167 Providende USA
168 Louisville USA
1965
169 Honolulu, Oahu USA
168 Kahului, Maui USA
169 Hilo USA
170 Lihue, Kauaʻi USA
171 Dothan USA
172 Tuscaloosa USA
173 Auburn University (Alabama) USA
174 Tuskegee Institute (Alabama) USA
175 Montgomery USA
176 Copenhagen Denmark
177 Vancouver Canada
178 Seattle USA
179 Denver USA
180 Houston USA
1966
181 Greenville USA
182 London England
183 Berlin West Germany
1967
184 Ponce Puerto Rico
185 San Juan Puerto Rico
186 Winnipeg Canada
187 London England
188 Turin Italy
189 July 7 Zagreb Yugoslavia
190 Toronto Canada
191 Kansas City USA
192 Tokyo Japan
1968
193 Brisbane Australia
194 Sydney Australia
195 Portland USA
196 San Antonio USA
197 Pittsburgh USA
1969
198 Auckland New Zealand
199 Dunedin New Zealand
200 Melbourne Australia
201 New York USA
202 Anaheim USA
1970
203 Dortmund West Germany
204 Knoxville USA
205 New York USA
206 Baton Rouge USA
1971
207 Lexington USA
208 Chicago USA
209 Oakland USA
210 Dallas USA
1972
211 Charlotte USA
212 Birmingham USA
213 Cleveland USA
214 Kohima India
1973
215 Durban South Africa
216 Johannesburg South Africa
217 Seoul South Korea
218 Atlanta USA
219 Minneapolis USA
220 Raleigh USA
221 St. Louis USA
1974
222 Phoenix USA
223 Los Angeles USA
224 Rio de Janeiro Brazil
225 Norfolk, Hampton USA
1975
226 Albuquerque USA
227 Jackson USA
228 Bruxelles Belgium
229 Lubbock USA
230 Taipei Taiwan
231 Hong Kong British Hong Kong
1976
232 Seattle USA
233 Williamsburg USA
1977
237 Göteborg Sweden
238 Asheville USA
239 South Bend USA
240 tour Hungary
241 Cincinnati USA
242 Manila Philippines
243 India-Good News Festivals India
1978
244 Las Vegas USA
245 Memphis USA
246 Toronto Canada
247 Kansas City USA
248 Oslo Norway
249 Stockholm Sweden
250 Satellite crusade Sweden
251 Satellite crusade Norway
252 Satellite crusade Island
253[12] 6–16 October tour Poland
254 Singapore Singapore
1979
255 São Paulo Brazil
256 Tampa USA
257 Sydney Australia
258 Nashville USA
259 August 11th Milwaukee USA
260 Halifax Canada
1980
261 Oxford England
262 Cambridge England
263 Indianapolis USA
264 Edmonton Canada
265 Wheaton USA
266 Okinawa Japan
267 Osaka Japan
268 Fukuoka Japan
269 Tokyo Japan
270 Reno USA
271 Las Vegas USA
1981
272 Mexico City Mexico
273 Villahermosa Mexico
274 Boca Raton USA
275 Baltimore USA
276 Calgary Canada
277 San José USA
278 Houston USA
1982
279 Blackpool England
280 Providence USA
281 Burlington USA
282 Portland USA
283 Springfield USA
284 Manchester USA
285 10–14 May Moscow Soviet Union
286 Hartford USA
287 New Haven USA
288 Boston (Northeastern University) USA
289 Amherst (University of Massachusetts) USA
290 New Haven (Yale University) USA
291 Cambridge (Harvard University) USA
292 Newton (Boston College) USA
293 Cambridge (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) USA
294 South Hamilton (Gordon-Convell Seminary) USA
295 Hanover (Dartmouth College) USA
296 Boston USA
297 New Orleans (South Baptist Convention Evangelistic Rally) USA
298 Boise USA
299 Spokane USA
300 Chapel Hill USA
301 Wittenberg East Germany
302 Dresden East Germany
303 Görlitz East Germany
304 Stendal East Germany
305 Stralsund East Germany
306 Berlin East Germany
307 Prague Czechoslovakia
308 Brno Czechoslovakia
309 Bratislava Czechoslovakia
310 Nassau Bahama
1983
311 Orlando USA
312 Tacoma USA
313 Sacramento USA
314 Oklahoma City USA
1984
315 Anchorage USA
316 Bristol England
317 Sunderland England
318 Norwich England
319 Birmingham England
320 Liverpool England
321 Ipswich England
322 Seoul South Korea
323 Leningrad Soviet Union
324 Tallinn Soviet Union
325 Novosibirsk Soviet Union
326 Moscow Soviet Union
327 Vancouver Canada
1985
328 Fort Lauderdale USA
329 Hartford USA
330 Sheffield England
331 Anaheim USA
332 Suceava Romania
333 Cluj-Napoca Romania
334 Oradea Romania
335 Arad Romania
336 Timișoara Romania
337 Sibiu Romania
338 Bucharest Romania
339 Pécs Hungary
340 Budapest Hungary
1986
341 Washington, D.C. USA
342 Paris France
343 Tallahassee USA
1987
344 Columbia USA
345 Cheyenne USA
346 Fargo USA
347 Billings USA
348 Sioux Falls USA
349 Denver USA
350 Helsinki Finland
1988
351 Beijing China
352 Huai'an China
353 Nankin Chine
354 Shanghai China
355 Guangzhou China
356 Zagorsk Soviet Union
357 Moscow Soviet Union
358 Kiev Soviet Union
359 Buffalo USA
360 Rochester USA
361 Hamilton Canada
1989
362 Syracuse USA
363 London England
364 Budapest Hungary
365 Little Rock USA
1990
368 Berlin West Germany
369 Montreal Canada
370 Albany USA
371 Uniondale USA
372 Hong Kong British Hong Kong
1991
373 Seattle, Tacoma USA
374 Edinburgh Scotland
375 Aberdeen Scotland
376 Glasgow Scotland
377 East Rutherford USA
378 New York (Central Park) USA
379 Buenos Aires Argentina
1992
380 Pjongjang North Korea
381 Philadelphia USA
382 Portland USA
383 Moscow Russia
1993
384 Essen Germany
385 Pittsburgh USA
386 Columbus USA
1994
387 Tokyo Japan
388 Beijing China
389 Pjongjang North Korea
390 Cleveland USA
391 Atlanta USA
1995
392 San Juan Puerto Rico
393 Global mission
394 Toronto Canada
395 Sacramento USA
1996
396 World Television Series
397 Minneapolis USA
398 Charlotte USA
1997
399 San Antonio USA
400 San Jose USA
401 San Francisco USA
402 Oakland USA
1998
403 Ottawa Canada
404 Tampa USA
1999
405 Indianapolis USA
406 St. Louis USA
2000
407 Nashville USA
408 Jacksonville USA
2001
409 Louisville USA
410 Fresno USA
2002
411 Cincinnati USA
412 Dallas USA
2003
413 San Diego USA
414 Oklahoma City USA
2004
415 Kansas City USA
416 Los Angeles USA
2005
417 New York USA

See also

References

  1. ↑ Nancy Gibbs & Richard N. Ostling, "God's Billy Pulpit", Time, November 15, 1993. [accessdate November 7, 2011]
  2. ↑ Michael G. Long (2008). The legacy of Billy Graham: critical reflections on America's greatest evangelist. Westminster: John Knox Press. p. 3.
  3. ↑ Uta Andrea Balbier (Spring 2009). "Billy Graham’s Crusades In the 1950s: Neo-Evangelicalism Between Civil Religion, Media, and Consumerism". Bulletin of the GHI (German Historical Institute) 44.
  4. ↑ "Prophecy and Politics". Christianity Today. Retrieved 2011-11-21.
  5. ↑ "War and Peace in Korea". CCEL. Retrieved 2011-11-21.
  6. ↑ http://www.cbsnews.com/news/billy-graham-is-back/
  7. ↑ "Announcing the Billy Graham Revival". Charlotte's Own. November 9–23, 1947.
  8. ↑ Billy Graham Center
  9. ↑ Billy Graham Washington D. C. Crusade
  10. ↑ "The Coliseum Sermons From Billy Graham's 1958 Charlotte Evangelistic Meetings". Wheaton College. Billy Graham Center Archives. 1958. Retrieved 2011-12-07.
  11. ↑ Edward Mc Carthy (1960-10-09). "Graham's Sermon Causes Gang Leaders To Plan To Attend Church". The Gadsden Times. Retrieved 2011-12-07.
  12. ↑ (ed.) Michał Stankiewicz (1979). Billy Graham w Polsce. Warszawa: Słowo Prawdy.

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