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Pass this on because the media didn't.
Billy Graham in New   Orleans

In what might prove to be the crowning achievement of
an   illustrious career in ministry, the 87-year-old
evangelist, Billy Graham   shocked the
16,300 in attendance at the Celebration of   Hope
crusade in New Orleans Arena on Sunday Night. Touted
in advance as   possibly his last evangelistic crusade,
Graham invited the packed house of   evangelical
Christians and the hundreds of new converts to join
him on   the one mile walk from the arena to New Orleans ' in!   famous Bourbon Street .

"While we have seen God do tremendous things   here the
past couple of evenings. Yes, it is true that a great
healing   and a great many
salvations have occurred within the confines of   this
auditorium. Still yet, there lies a great mountain in
this city   which needs to be conquered."

Then taking from the Biblical Book of   Joshua Chapter
14 he read, "I am this day, eighty-five years old. As
yet   I am as strong this Day as on the
day that Moses sent me; just as my   strength was then,
so now is my strength for war, both for going out   and
for coming in. Now therefore, give me this mountain of
which the   Lord spoke in that day," his voice suddenly
sounding more forceful than   during his 22 minute
sermon.

"I last preached in the City of New   Orleans! in 1954
and I felt then that there was some unfinis   hed
business. Tonight, in what very well might
be my last   evangelistic service, I aim to finish that
business and lead as many of you   t! hat woul d follow me
to the multitude of lost souls that   fill
Bourbon Street tonight. That is my mountain !

That is   where we shall see the harvest!" said Graham
as the stadium erupted in   cheers that lasted the next
several minutes.

Utilizing a waiting   mobility scooter, the elder Graham
joined his son and heir to the ministry,   Franklin
across the Arena floor and through the
opened doors   leading towards the French Quarter. In a
show of solidarity and   determination reminiscent of
civil rights marches of the   1960's,
nearly the entire capacity crowd joined in the 20
minute   trek while singing, "When the Saints Go
Marching In".

As the march   crossed Canal Street and headed northward
towards Bourbon Street , many   onlookers stood in
stu! nned silence as the massive crowd of people   began
singing in unison the Christian hymn, Amazing Grace.

Upon   entering the west end of Bourbon Street , Billy
Graham was soon recognized   by partiers.

Soon those joining in the march began to approach
those   partying on Bourbon Street with the Gospel
message that they had heard   preached just a half hour
before. Graham himself joined with a group of   local
street evangelist in ministering to a man who had
survived   Hurricane Katrina in the lower 9th Ward.

Within 30 minutes the entirety   of Bourbon Street was
packed with Christians and the once blaring music   of
nightclubs and strip joints had been
replaced by weeping and   worship as people poured out
their drinks and sought prayer from the   Christians who
were now reaching out to them.

"I have never seen   anything like this in my life,"
said 20 years New Orleans Police Department veteran,
Tom Phillips. "This is   unbelievable! We
thought a riot was going to break out, but this   looks
more like a revival than a riot!"

Two hours later, a glowing   Graham sat back down on his
scooter and smiled. "Now I know how the Apostle   Paul
must have felt at the end of his ministry. Do the work
of an   evangelist; make full proof of thy ministry. For
I am now ready to be   offered, and the time of my
departure is at hand. I have fought a good   fight, I
have finished my course, I have kept the faith."

Hours   later hundreds of Christians remained on the
street ministering to the many   people eagerly waiting
to receive prayer and ministry. New Orleans   will never
be   the same. And the press remained
mute on this "news item"

Did anyone   see it on TV/hear it on radio/read it in
the paper?

Why are we not   surprised? Can't have THAT just prior
to a major election, now, can we?   Well, just on a
whim, spread the news, anyway. It cost
our elder   brother, Billy Graham, more than any of us
know to make that effort. The   least we can do it
publicize it.

JESUS IS LORD!!

"I would   rather live my life as if there is a God, and
die to find out there isn't,   than live my life as if
there isn't, and find out there is"

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Mother Teresa

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
Mother Teresa

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.
Mother Teresa

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.
Mother Teresa

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
Mother Teresa

Good works are links that form a chain of love.
Mother Teresa

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.
Mother Teresa

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
Mother Teresa

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
Mother Teresa

It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
Mother Teresa

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
Mother Teresa

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.
Mother Teresa

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
Mother Teresa

It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.
Mother Teresa

Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.
Mother Teresa

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Mother Teresa

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
Mother Teresa

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the ..:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.
Mother Teresa

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
Mother Teresa

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
Mother Teresa

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa

Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
Mother Teresa

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
Mother Teresa

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
Mother Teresa

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
Mother Teresa

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
Mother Teresa

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
Mother Teresa

Peace begins with a smile.
Mother Teresa

So many signatures for such a small heart.
Mother Teresa

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
Mother Teresa

Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.
Mother Teresa

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
Mother Teresa

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
Mother Teresa

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
Mother Teresa

There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
Mother Teresa

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

We, the unwilling,led by the unknowing,are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much,for so long,with so little,we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.