Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Telephone Counseling Ministry.

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 1966. Its headquarters was in Minneapolis, with offices in other U.S. and foreign cities. In the early 1980s the BGEA developed a program for training and supervising volunteer counselors in several centers around the United States to answer calls for spiritual assistance from viewers of televised BGEA evangelsitic services.

From the description of Records of the Telephone Counseling Ministry 1978-1990. (Wheaton College). WorldCat record id: 64400322