Word: gospeling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Global Soul Seeker Bill Bright, 56, director of the successful Campus Crusade for Christ, plans to raise $100 million next year?and a cool $1 billion by 1982?for another project. Its aim is to saturate the earth with Gospel preachers and placards. Bright, who is based in Arrowhead Springs, Calif., describes the effort as "the most extensive Christian social and evangelization mission in recorded history." A number of the richest businessmen in America are backing his campaign...
...Some 2,000 broadcast preachers, those who have taken their Gospel from tent to tube and also reach 114 million radio listeners, will hold their annual convention in Washington, B.C., next month. Among the speakers will be Anita Bryant, just named "Most Admired Woman" by 22% of 11,530 voters in the annual Good Housekeeping poll, and Marabel (Total Woman) Morgan. As if to emphasize the extraordinary range...
...Billy Graham, who has preached in person to 80 million souls so far, will invade the very citadel of sin, Las Vegas, the first week in February. At age 59, the grand old man of Evangelicalism is as popular and active as ever. Last week he brought the Gospel to 75,000 people at Nehru Stadium in Madras, India. About 1,500 accepted his invitation to "come forward saying 'Yes' to Jesus Christ." Graham's Minneapolis office now receives $28.7 million a year from the 8 million apostles on its mailing list...
...first component of a proposed $50 million combined communications school and university next fall. The Yale Law graduate, son of Virginia's late U.S. Senator Willis A. Robertson, recently inaugurated a new satellite transmitter?the first one to be owned by an independent TV producer ?to feed various Gospel programs simultaneously to the four CBN-owned channels and 130 other stations at an annual cost of $20 million. Pentecostalist Robertson also acts as host on the 700 Club, seen daily by millions...
Pursuing that goal. Evangelicals have thriving student groups on many college campuses. Former Democratic Senator Harold Hughes is quietly working with prominent men in Washington, D.C.. while other specialists are spreading the Gospel among scantily clad chorines, prep school students and young intellectuals. During the past decade, while the four mainline Protestant denominations were cutting their foreign missionary staffs by more than half, many Evangelical agencies were expanding. This year 2,200 college students sent cards to Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship pledging their lives to overseas work...