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Invitation: Billy Graham and The Lives God Touched
Billy Graham... A crusade... A stadium poised for a spiritual change… A person in need…
Now for the first time, through pictures and stories of ordinary people who heard the invitation and responded, we glimpse the breathtaking panorama of a seventy-year work of God on a scale no one could have imagined.
Here is the inspiring spiritual journey of hearts and souls encountering God through the ministry of Billy Graham. From despair to hope, from broken life to renewed spirit, Invitation tells each individual story within the visual context of the Crusade experience.
This new book of images and stories brings together never-before published stories of real people who responded to God’s invitation and as a result found their lives transformed and utterly turned around.
Created by Billy Graham’s grandsons, Basyle (“Boz”) and Aram Tchividjian, Invitation draws from www.thankyoubilly.com, a website designed to capture for all time the human impact of Graham’s crusades. Here, the stories poured in, from young and old, near and far–those who once were lonely, addicted, abandoned, sick, suicidal–all sharing how one invitation changed everything.
Designed around photographs, many never before seen, from the private Graham family collections and the archives of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Invitation has a place in every home, and is itself an invitation to all of us to experience the spiritual legacy of Billy Graham and the work of God in changing lives.
Now for the first time, through pictures and stories of ordinary people who heard the invitation and responded, we glimpse the breathtaking panorama of a seventy-year work of God on a scale no one could have imagined.
Here is the inspiring spiritual journey of hearts and souls encountering God through the ministry of Billy Graham. From despair to hope, from broken life to renewed spirit, Invitation tells each individual story within the visual context of the Crusade experience.
This new book of images and stories brings together never-before published stories of real people who responded to God’s invitation and as a result found their lives transformed and utterly turned around.
Created by Billy Graham’s grandsons, Basyle (“Boz”) and Aram Tchividjian, Invitation draws from www.thankyoubilly.com, a website designed to capture for all time the human impact of Graham’s crusades. Here, the stories poured in, from young and old, near and far–those who once were lonely, addicted, abandoned, sick, suicidal–all sharing how one invitation changed everything.
Designed around photographs, many never before seen, from the private Graham family collections and the archives of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Invitation has a place in every home, and is itself an invitation to all of us to experience the spiritual legacy of Billy Graham and the work of God in changing lives.
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144 pages, Hardcover
First published September 15, 2008
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About the author
Basyle Tchividjian
8 books7 followersTchividjian is the grandchild of Reverend Billy Graham & Ruth Bell Graham & the son of Gigi Graham Tchividjian.
Before joining the faculty of Liberty University School of Law, Basyle Tchividjian was a partner in Landis Graham French, P.A., which is one of the oldest law firms in Florida. His practice focused primarily in the areas of labor and employment law and civil litigation for damages associated with child sexual abuse. He has also been a frequent lecturer regarding the various issues associated with Title VII and state anti-discrimination statutes.
From 1994 until 2001, Tchividjian was an Assistant State Attorney for Florida’s 7th Judicial Circuit. During his tenure as a prosecutor, he created the sexual crimes division of the Office of State Attorney and was personally responsible for the prosecution of hundreds of cases involving child sexual abuse. Tchividjian was a frequent lecturer for the Florida Prosecuting Attorneys Association and the Florida Conference on Child Abuse.
Tchividjian is a founding member and executive director of GRACE (Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment). The purpose of GRACE is to educate and equip the evangelical Church to correctly respond to sexual abuse disclosures and to train the Church in how to minimize the opportunities for abuse to occur within its environment. Tchividjian speaks extensively on this subject at various Christian conferences and denominational gatherings. He has also appeared numerous times on television to discuss the work and ministry of GRACE. In 2006, Tchividjian was a contributor to the video series Caring for Kids God’s Way produced by the American Association of Christian Counselors.
For the 10 years prior to joining the faculty at Liberty, Tchividjian was an adjunct faculty member with the Rinker School of Business at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida and Celebration, Florida.
Tchividjian is a member of the Florida Bar Association and is admitted to practice in the State of Florida and the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida.
Before joining the faculty of Liberty University School of Law, Basyle Tchividjian was a partner in Landis Graham French, P.A., which is one of the oldest law firms in Florida. His practice focused primarily in the areas of labor and employment law and civil litigation for damages associated with child sexual abuse. He has also been a frequent lecturer regarding the various issues associated with Title VII and state anti-discrimination statutes.
From 1994 until 2001, Tchividjian was an Assistant State Attorney for Florida’s 7th Judicial Circuit. During his tenure as a prosecutor, he created the sexual crimes division of the Office of State Attorney and was personally responsible for the prosecution of hundreds of cases involving child sexual abuse. Tchividjian was a frequent lecturer for the Florida Prosecuting Attorneys Association and the Florida Conference on Child Abuse.
Tchividjian is a founding member and executive director of GRACE (Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment). The purpose of GRACE is to educate and equip the evangelical Church to correctly respond to sexual abuse disclosures and to train the Church in how to minimize the opportunities for abuse to occur within its environment. Tchividjian speaks extensively on this subject at various Christian conferences and denominational gatherings. He has also appeared numerous times on television to discuss the work and ministry of GRACE. In 2006, Tchividjian was a contributor to the video series Caring for Kids God’s Way produced by the American Association of Christian Counselors.
For the 10 years prior to joining the faculty at Liberty, Tchividjian was an adjunct faculty member with the Rinker School of Business at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida and Celebration, Florida.
Tchividjian is a member of the Florida Bar Association and is admitted to practice in the State of Florida and the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida.
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March 21, 2018
This book reminds us of how many lives God used BG to uniquely touch. A couple of decades now removed from most of this, it is easy to forget how singular Graham's ministry was.
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