Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. School of Evangelism (1968 : Sydney, N.S.W.)

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 included a School of Evangelism as one component of its crusades, consisting of seminars and lectures to train laypeople in evangelistic principles and methods; the Sydney School of Evangelism was held in April 1968.