Wish Rev. Billy Graham a happy birthday

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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Go here to write a Happy Birthday message to the Rev. Billy Graham.

CNN has the story:

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (CNN) — Franklin Graham was stumped. He had no idea what to give his father, the evangelist Billy Graham, for his 90th birthday on Friday.

The Rev. Billy Graham speaks at a crusade in Kansas City, Missouri, in October 2004.

Suddenly, it dawned on him.

“I have people who sometimes come up to me and say ‘Franklin, I know I’ll never meet your father, but would you mind telling him that I got saved in his meeting in London in 1950,’ ” said the younger Graham during a recent conversation at the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, North Carolina.

“I thought, wow, wouldn’t it be something if everybody just wrote that little story down and gave it to him?”

So Franklin Graham turned to the Internet to help.

For the past few months, people from around the world have been leaving personal messages for the elder Graham at billygraham90.com. So far, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association says it has received tens of thousands of birthday greetings. Read the messages.