His Publication "Angels: God's Secret Agents": took ninety days to sell 1 million copies in 1975.
Graham's Education programs and his outstanding reputation as a modern day prophet have also attributed to his great success. Billy Graham has conducted 407 crusades over six .
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decades (BGEA, 4). He has preached the gospel to over 210 million people in more than 185 countries and territories. Grahams preached the Gospel to more people in live audiences than anyone else in history (BGEA, 4). In 1949, Graham took his first step to worldwide prominence at a tent crusade in Los Angeles. The crusade extended from three to eight weeks to accommodate crowds that totaled 350,000. Graham himself said his big break came when newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst gave his now-famous order to promote Graham's ministry (Garfield, 18).
Since the 1949 crusade in Los Angeles vaulted Mr. Graham into the public eye, he has led hundreds of thousands of individuals to make personal decisions to live for Christ, which is the main thrust of this ministry (BGEA, 5). In New York 1957, 2.3 million people attended his sixteen-week crusade. His largest one-day crowd was on the lawn of Central Park in New York City where 250,000 people attended on September 22, 1991 (Garfield, 56). Hundreds of millions .
more have been reached through television, video and films (BGEA, 6). .
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Since 1957, Television has played a major role in evangelism (BGEA, 6). Even before then in 1950, Billy Graham Established the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association in Minneapolis (BGEA, 1). This weekly radio program called "Hour of Decision" was heard on more than 700 stations worldwide. Since 1951, World Wide Pictures has produced over 130 evangelical films by Billy Graham. These films have been viewed by more than 200 million people and translated into forty-six languages (BGEA, 7). .
Billy Graham once used a television conversation with Cardinal Richard Cushing to mend the relationship between Evangelicals and Roman Catholics.
