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The U.S. Congressional Committee is expected to approve the design for a new Billy Graham

statue this fall.

According to Christianity today, the statue will stand at the capital in the National Statuary

Hall, representing North Carolina.

When the statue goes up, perhaps in two years, it will join

more than a dozen other monuments to the late evangelist, including statues, museums, roads,

and plaques. The article notes that, while there is no official tally, Graham appears to be

the most memorialized religious leader since John Wesley.

I will always remember my personal encounter with Dr. Graham.

More than 20 years ago, I led a group from the Dallas-Fort Worth area to meet with him where he was preaching at an evangelical event in California.

Our purpose was to extend a formal invitation

for him to conduct what later became the Metroplex mission with Billy Graham in 2002.

We delivered hundreds of letters of invitation. Then I made the presentation on behalf of our

organizing group. Dr. Graham listened quietly, then he asked me

why I thought he needed to return to our area to conduct another mission. He had led an earlier

evangelical crusade to open Texas Stadium in 1971. I understood him to be asking why we needed

such an outreach event, so I described in detail the

spiritual lostness of our region. He listened patiently, then he asked his question more directly.

Why did I believe that he could be effective and relevant in our area, given his advanced age?

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