RUTH BELL GRAHAM - ONE WINTRY NIGHT

Description: ONE WINTRY NIGHTRUTH BELL GRAHAM (WIFE OF BILLY GRAHAM), AUTHORRICHARD JESSE WATSON, ILLUSTRATORA HISTORY OF GOD'S REDEEMING LOVE11" x 10"72 GLOSSY PAGES, FULLY ILLUSTRATEDWEIGHT OF BOOK = 1 lb 9 oz===== Ruth McCue Bell Graham (June 10, 1920 – June 14, 2007) was a Chinese-born American Christian author. She was born in Qingjiang, Jiangsu, Republic of China, the second of five children. Her parents, Virginia Leftwich Bell and L. Nelson Bell, were medical missionaries at the Presbyterian Hospital 300 miles (480 km) north of Shanghai. At age 13 she was enrolled in Pyeng Yang Foreign School in Pyongyang, Korea, where she studied for three years. She completed her high school education at Montreat, North Carolina, while her parents were there on furlough. She graduated from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. The Grahams met at Wheaton College and were married in the summer of 1943, shortly after their graduation. Ruth Graham became a minister's wife for a brief period in Western Springs, Illinois. She lived out the rest of her life in Montreat, North Carolina. The Grahams have five children: Virginia (Gigi), Anne, Ruth, Franklin, and Nelson Edman (Ned), 19 grandchildren, and numerous great-grandchildren. Graham wrote a number of books, including some co-authored with her daughter Gigi Graham. Graham returned to the U.S. at the age of 17 in the fall of 1937, and enrolled at Wheaton College, outside Chicago, Illinois, where she met Billy Graham. They married on August 13, 1943. In 1945, after a brief stint as a suburban pastor, her husband became an evangelist for Youth for Christ. The Grahams moved to Montreat near her parents where the Grahams continued to live for the rest of their married life. Despite her husband being one of the world's most famous Baptists, Graham remained a Presbyterian and often taught Sunday School. Between 1945 and 1958, Graham gave birth to five children, whom she raised – sometimes single-handedly – while her husband was away on extended national and international evangelistic crusades. Their three daughters and two sons are all actively involved in ministry, including eldest son Franklin, who heads the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) founded by his father. In 1959, Graham published her first book, Our Christmas Story, an illustrated volume for children. She went on to write or co-write 13 other books, many of them works of poetry she wrote as an emotional release while her husband was so often on the road through the years. Graham was a vital part of Billy Graham's evangelistic career, and he turned to her for advice and input about many ministry decisions. One of the early uses of media by the BGEA was the "Hour of Decision" radio program begun in 1950, which she named. After her upbringing in China and high school experience in Korea, she continued to have compassion for the people of Asia. She encouraged her husband to visit and later accompanied him during his historic visits to the People's Republic of China. Graham's significant role in her husband's ministry was recognized in 1996, when they were jointly awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in a special ceremony in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C. Graham was a poet and writer, authoring or co-authoring 14 books, as well as a regular contributor for newspapers and magazines.Our Christmas Story, 1959Family Bible Library, 1971 (Board of Editorial Advisors)Sitting by My Laughing Fire, 1977 (revised 2006)It's My Turn, 1982Legacy of a Pack Rat, 1989Prodigals and Those Who Love Them, 1991Clouds are the Dust of His Feet, 1992One Wintry Night, 1994Collected Poems, 1997Prayers from a Mother's Heart, 1999Footprints of a Pilgrim: The Life and Loves of Ruth Bell Graham, 2001Never Let It End: Poems of a Lifelong Love, 2001=====

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