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"