Born in a hospital charity ward and raised by grandparents in a ghetto section of Houston, Gage was an undisputed gang leader by age sixteen. Gage was saved in a 1951 revival and felt God call him to preach that same night. He spent much of the late 1960’s and 1970’s preaching to high school
This prominent Southern Baptist Evangelist was a featured speaker at the Pastor’s Conference of the SBC, former president of the SBC and the Texas Baptist Evangelists, and a man who believed in God to sustain him despite his longtime kidney ailment. When it comes to the life of someone like Manley Beasley you are faced
Clifford Burton Barrows served as the music and program director for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. He has been a part of the Graham organization since 1949. Barrows is best known as the host of Graham’s weekly Hour of Decision radio program as well as the song leader and choir director for the crusade meetings.
Ayers tells the story of when he was ten he would run to the edge of the woods near his home and pray for his family to know God even though he had never been to church. When he was eleven, after years of fighting between his parents, his dad told him that he was
Hyman Jedidiah Appelman was born on the banks of the Dnieper River in White Russia of Orthodox Jewish parents. Hyman arrived in America with his mother and three younger brothers in December 1914. Hyman knew Hebrew, and had a fair command of German, Russian, Yiddish and Polish…
Gene Miller Williams began preaching the Gospel in 1944. After serving as pastor of churches in Texas, Louisiana and Alabama, he entered full-time vocational evangelism in 1957 and has led over 1,500 meetings in America and over 135 in foreign countries. He founded Williams Ministries in 1959. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from
