Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Hong Kong Affiliate.

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 an 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 Hong Kong office was opened under the direction of V. Samuel Jones, 1972; principal task was to publish a Chinese edition of DECISION magazine for worldwide distribution to Chinese communities; also assisting in distributing World Wide Pictures films, books published by the BGEA in both Chinese and English, broadcasts of HOUR OF DECISION radio program, and coordinating the showing of THE HIDING PLACE in Peking in 1979; assisted in preliminary work for the 1975 Hong Kong Crusade; responsibility for operations was passed to a local committee, 1981.