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About the Pastor |
*Article in Branson Daily Independent Newspaper |
Rev. Graham accepted Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and Savior in 1971 and was filled with the Holy Spirit and received his call into the ministry in 1972. Early in his ministry he was a youth pastor, directed a teen center to troubled youths, conducted street ministry to the homeless, drug addicts and alcoholics, and did extensive jail and prison ministry. He began full-time Pastoring in 1975. He is a four year Bible college graduate with a Bachelors Degree in Biblical Studies. He is a former member of the Gideon's International, the Full Gospel Businessmen's Fellowship International, and Area Advisor for Women's Aglow. He is the former Founder and President of the Ozark Area Ministerial Alliance, an alliance of 34 denominational churches in Southwest Missouri. He was the former Founder and Coordinator of the Southwest Missouri Minister's Fellowship, a fellowship of 52 non-denominational churches, and former District Director for an international minister's fellowship. During his Pastoral ministry he has conducted a Minister's Training School graduating 724 ministers and helped start 67 churches and 13 Bible schools in the United States and foreign countries. He has traveled extensively throughout the United States and in a number of foreign countries teaching and preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He is currently Pastoring his fourth church and is the Founder and National President of the Christ's Riders Motorcycle Ministry. |