‘The spirit in your heart:’ Preacher Billy Graham remembered in Canada
CALGARY — Fred Weiss was 22 years old when he joined the spellbound crowd listening to the Rev. Billy Graham at Calgary’s McMahon Stadium in 1981.
Graham, a celebrated evangelical preacher who was a confidant to U.S. presidents, died Wednesday at 99 at his North Carolina home.
“Having watched Billy Graham on television, I was very excited to be there and see him in person,” recalled Weiss, who is executive director of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association of Canada
“I was just struck by the consistency and simplicity of the gospel message, which I’d heard all my life, but he presented in such a concise manner that was always, to me, a hallmark of his preaching.”