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...Pregnant with her own child, she filed an application with a public agency to find out who her birth mother was. Then she waited. And waited. Finally, this January she received a brief "nonidentifying" description of her mother. She was a folk singer born in the prairie town of Saskatoon, of Norwegian-Scottish descent, who suffered polio as a child. Encouraged by friends who had heard of Mitchell's search and who thought that she resembled the singer, Gibb found a Joni Mitchell Website and began clicking off the biographical details she found there: blue eyes, blond hair, long limbs...
...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...
...1980s: "You know, Franklin can communicate," the father said. "I think he has the gift of evangelism, but I'm not the one to get him to start. Could you do something?" In November 1983 White finally coaxed Franklin out in front of a crowd of 1,000 in Saskatoon. It was a disaster. "You can't be tentative and feeble and be an evangelist," explains White matter-of-factly. "He gave the invitation. And there was nothing. I mean, nothing." Not one of the 1,000 came down. A mortified Franklin told White, "Don't you ever...
Which is what finally happened. Toronto, says Franklin, had "kind of got Daddy thinking." One night, after they had preached a joint crusade in, of all places, Saskatoon, Billy called him to his hotel room. "He said, 'Franklin, I'm really dreading the board meeting that's coming,'" because his ill health had made "some changes" necessary. He produced a sheaf of letters he had received from executive-committee members, letters he said he had thus far shared only with Ruth. They had a common thread, he explained,"...and that's that you're to be the one to take...
Drury was again named to the National Junior team and will travel to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan to play in the World Junior Tournament at the end of the month...