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Billy Graham remembered as ‘good face for the church of Jesus Christ in the world’

Evangelist Billy Graham begins a sermon in Atlanta's Georgia Dome on Oct 26, 1994. . Graham, who transformed American religious life through his preaching and activism, becoming a counselor to presidents and the most widely heard Christian evangelist in history, has died. Spokesman Mark DeMoss says Graham, who long suffered from cancer, pneumonia and other ailments, died at his home in North Carolina on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018. He was 99. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)

02212918 BILLY GRAHAM — Evangelist Billy Graham begins a sermon in Atlanta's Georgia Dome on Oct 26, 1994. . Graham, who transformed American religious life through his preaching and activism, becoming a counselor to presidents and the most widely heard Christian evangelist in history, has died. Spokesman Mark DeMoss says Graham, who long suffered from cancer, pneumonia and other ailments, died at his home in North Carolina on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018. He was 99. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)

The boyhood memory is clear for the Rev. Bill Coates. Billy Graham spoke the gospel to millions, way beyond stadiums and arenas in the cities he visited but also in the living rooms of people’s homes.