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====Evangelistic association==== In 1950, Graham founded the [[Billy Graham Evangelistic Association]] (BGEA) with its headquarters in [[Minneapolis]]. The association relocated to [[Charlotte, North Carolina]], in 2003,<ref name="BG">{{cite web | title=Billy Graham | website=Billy Graham Evangelistic Association | date=September 1, 2020 | url=https://billygraham.org/about/biographies/billy-graham/ | access-date=May 14, 2024}}</ref> and maintains a number of international offices, such as in Hong Kong, Tokyo, and [[Buenos Aires]].<ref name=":0" /> BGEA ministries have included: * ''[[Hour of Decision]]'', a weekly radio program broadcast around the world for 66 years (1950β2016)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/news/local/rev-billy-graham-his-life-by-the-numbers-years-and-millions/83-523431321|title=Rev. Billy Graham: His Life By The Numbers, Years, and Millions|date=February 26, 2018 |publisher=WFMY|access-date=February 13, 2021}}</ref> * Mission television specials broadcast in almost every market in the US and Canada{{Citation needed|date=November 2020}} * A syndicated newspaper column, ''My Answer'', carried by newspapers across the United States and distributed by [[Tribune Content Agency]]<ref name="tca">{{cite web |title=My Answer: From the writings of the Rev. Billy Graham |website=Tribune Content Agency |url=https://tribunecontentagency.com/premium-content/advice/my-answer/ |access-date=October 9, 2018}}</ref> * ''Decision'' magazine, the official publication of the association<ref>{{cite web|title=Formats and Editions of Decision magazine|url=https://www.worldcat.org/formats-editions/14192314|publisher=[[WorldCat]]|access-date=February 13, 2021}}</ref> * ''[[Christianity Today]],'' started in 1956 with [[Carl F. H. Henry]] as its first editor<ref>{{Cite journal |last=TOULOUSE |first=MARK G. |date=1993 |title="Christianity Today" and American Public Life: A Case Study |journal=Journal of Church and State |volume=35 |issue=2 |pages=241β284 |doi=10.1093/jcs/35.2.241 |jstor=23918687 |issn=0021-969X}}</ref> * Passageway.org, the website for a youth discipleship program created by BGEA<ref>{{Cite web |last=Adewara |first=Bola |date=February 23, 2018 |title=30 FACTS YOU DID NOT KNOW ABOUT BILLY GRAHAM β By Bola Adewara |url=https://elifeonline.net/11828-2/ |access-date=March 19, 2022 |website=Reporting the living Word |language=en-GB}}</ref> * [[World Wide Pictures]], which has produced and distributed more than 130 films<ref>John Lyden, ''The Routledge Companion to Religion and Film'', Taylor & Francis, Abingdon-on-Thames, 2009, p. 82</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Billy Graham |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0333932/bio#trivia |access-date=March 19, 2022 |website=IMDb |language=en}}</ref> In April 2013, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association started "My Hope With Billy Graham", the largest outreach in its history. It encouraged church members to spread the gospel in small group meetings, after showing a video message by Graham. "The idea is for Christians to follow the example of the disciple [[Matthew the Apostle|Matthew]] in the New Testament and spread the gospel in their own homes."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.al.com/living/index.ssf/2013/04/new_billy_graham_outreach_host.html |title=New Billy Graham outreach: Hosting 'Matthew parties' to share the gospel |publisher=al.com |access-date=August 12, 2013|date=April 16, 2013 }}</ref> "The Cross" video is the main program in the My Hope America series, and was also broadcast the week of Graham's 95th birthday.<ref>{{Cite news | title=Evangelist Billy Graham to mark 95th birthday with message to America | last=Jenkins | first=Colleen |work=[[Reuters]] | date=October 31, 2013 | access-date=November 6, 2018 | url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-people-graham/evangelist-billy-graham-to-mark-95th-birthday-with-message-to-america-idUSBRE99U14020131031}}</ref>
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