Graham's daughter says New York crusade was his last Print
Sunday, 14 August 2005 08:00 PM America/New_York

Evangelist Billy Graham has declined an invitation to hold a crusade in London, and his daughter said last week that his June crusade in New York was his last.

Anne Graham Lotz made the announcement during national radio and television appearances last week. Lotz has been promoting her father's new book based on the last crusade titled Living in God's Love: The New York Crusade. The book features Graham's three sermons and photographs from the crusade. Living in God's Love, which released Aug. 4, is distributed to the general market by G.P. Putnam, a division of the Penguin Group (USA), and to the Christian retail industry through Strang Communications.

The 86-year-old Graham will continue his ministry of evangelism and resume writing several books and contributing to other special projects he had begun in recent years. He also plans to attend the dedication of the Billy Graham Library at his ministry's headquarters in Charlotte, N.C., for which the initial groundbreaking will take place on Aug. 26.

The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association has planned an aggressive schedule of crusades with Franklin Graham, already extending into 2007 and beyond.