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...month after Franklin was born again, a Graham friend named Bob Pierce who ran an international-aid mission invited him on a remarkable two-month tour of the Far East that included China, Indonesia and India, with its "hundreds of millions of people," as Franklin writes, "locked in the darkness of Hinduism...bound by Satan's power." The combination of small planes and benighted heathens proved irresistible to a man whose maternal grandparents had been missionaries to China. Pierce died of leukemia three years later, and Franklin, who by then had graduated from college, married and become a father, took...
...medicine and other aid in global crisis zones, while preaching the gospel to its beneficiaries and anyone else in the area. With Franklin--often literally--in the cockpit, Samaritan's Purse parachuted into places like Bosnia, Haiti, Ethiopia and, immediately after the bombing, Oklahoma City. The second half of Graham's autobiography, Rebel with a Cause, recounts with obvious relish various acts of charitable and evangelical derring-do, from dodging P.L.O. cannon fire while aiding an evangelical church in Beirut to training chaplains for the right-wing contra insurrection during the Nicaraguan civil war to jockeying a disabled plane into...
...daredevil traits that Franklin thought he had developed to spite him and had turned them to his own good ends. Not only that, but he had arranged for Franklin to achieve the elusive goal of every great man's son: to find his own place in the world. Billy Graham was the world's best preacher, but he had never piloted a six-seater in search of savable souls nor had an evangelically sound reason for carrying a .38 in an ankle holster. If this had been Franklin Graham's only and final job, he could have happily left...
...moment when the preacher asks the audience to "come forward" and accept Jesus. It is the event's punch line, its consummation: if a preacher is a salesman, it is the clinching handshake; if he is a fisherman, it is the taking in of the net. Billy Graham's nets were always filled to breaking. In 1983 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Franklin Graham's net was empty...
Franklin now claims the urge to preach first came upon him in 1985, watching his father speaking before thousands in Romania, years before the Iron Curtain's rending. John Wesley White remembers differently. White is an associate evangelist with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (B.G.E.A.), the corporate entity that includes Billy and all who help him spread the Word; associate evangelists preach crusades in towns too small for Billy. Franklin, newly born again, had given testimony at several of White's revivals, and Billy reportedly took notice. White remembers a conversation one day in the early 1980s: "You know, Franklin...