Born in North Carolina to William Franklin Graham and Morrow Coffey Graham, was Billy Graham. As a child, he attended Chalmers Memorial Associate Reformed Presbyterian Meeting House on South Boulevard. It is hard to believe that an ordinary boy raised on a dairy farm in Charlotte, North Carolina could have made such a difference in the lives of so many people. Just like many other church going teenagers, Billy Graham accepted Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and Savior at the age of sixteen. During a Charlotte revival featuring the traveling evangelist Mordecai Ham during the singing of "Almost Persuaded, Christ to Believe," at that moment he "willed to seek Christ (Garfield, 5)." .
Billy Graham's early education was almost as poor as Abraham Lincoln's. A primary reason was the low level of teaching. At Sharon high School, deep in the country, two or three of the teachers had never been to college. Yet if the teaching had been better he would have made little use of it, for by the age of ten or eleven he reckoned horse-sense enough for a future farmer, an attitude slightly .
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abetted by his father, stoutly abetted by his father (Pollock, 3).
The one redeeming feature of Billy's early intellectual life was an exceptional love of reading history books. By the time he was fourteen he had read about a hundred (Pollock, 4). When Billy Graham was small, Sunday was a lot like an old Scottish Sabbath, its highlights the five-mile drive by automobile to the small Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, which sang only Psalms, in Charlotte, a city then rated the most churchgoing in America(Pollock, 4).
Billy Graham graduated from Florida Bible Institute near Tampa and became an ordained a minister in the Southern Baptist Convention in 1940. Due to Graham's strong will and dedication to Christ's leadership, he has touched the lives of millions of people through his Crusades, Broadcasts, and motion pictures.
