Question: What prominent North Carolina evangelist was ordained into the Southern Baptist Convention?
Answer: Billy Graham, the renowned evangelist born in 1918 on a dairy farm near Charlotte, was ordained into the Southern Baptist Convention in 1939 by Peniel Baptist Church in Palatka, Florida. After attending Bob Jones University and the Florida Bible Institute—where he received his divinity degree—he went on to graduate from Wheaton College in Illinois in 1943. Graham rose to become one of the most influential Christian figures of the 20th century. He died in 2018 at age 99 in Montreat.
