Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Director of Overseas Television Ministry.
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Evangelistic organization, founded in 1950 to: operate Billy Graham's ministry in a business-like way; provide a non-profit entity to receive donations for crusades and related ministries; plan and coordinate evangelistic meetings throughout the world; and with its agents and subsidiaries produce radio and television programs, films, DECISION magazine, and books and records. The BGEA was instrumental in: founding the magazine CHRISTIANITY TODAY, and Wheaton College's Billy Graham Center; sponsoring a series of international and regional conferences on evangelism, beginning in 1966. Its headquarters was in Minneapolis, with offices in other U.S. and foreign cities. The BGEA edited hour-long Graham telecasts into half hour programs and then translated them into foreign situations and languages for broadcasts overseas; begun in 1970 under the leadership of Charles Ward, the telecasts were distributed in six languages in as many as nineteen countries; BGEA discontinued the work in 1978; Charles Ward served as director of the overseas television ministry, 1970-1978.
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