List of Billy Graham's crusades

== History ==
The first Billy Graham evangelistic campaign, held September 13–21, 1947, in the Civic Auditorium in Grand Rapids, Michigan, was attended by 6,000 people. He would rent a large venue, such as a stadium, park, or street.<ref>CBN, [https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2018/february/remembering-the-billy-graham-crusades-that-led-people-to-jesus Remembering the Billy Graham Crusades That Led People to Jesus], cbn.com, USA, February 24, 2018</ref> As the sessions became larger, he arranged a group of up to 5,000 people to sing in a choir. He would preach the [[gospel]] and invite people to come forward to ask Jesus "to be their savior" and pray together. The inquirers were often given a copy of the [[Gospel of John]] or a [[Bible]] study booklet. In [[Durban]], South Africa, in 1973, the crowd of some 100,000 was the first large mixed-race event in [[apartheid]] South Africa.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.cswc.div.ed.ac.uk/2018/03/billy-graham-1918-2018-prophet-of-world-christianity/|title=Billy Graham (1918–2018): Prophet of World Christianity?|last=Stanley|first=Brian|author-link=Brian Stanley (historian)|date=March 2, 2018|website=Centre for the Study of World Christianity|language=en-GB|access-date=April 13, 2020}}</ref> In [[Moscow]], in 1992, one-quarter of the 155,000 people in Graham's audience went forward at his call.<ref name="time1993">{{cite web |first1=Nancy |last1=Gibbs |first2=Richard N. |last2=Ostling |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070621232638/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,979573,00.html |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,979573,00.html |archivedate=2007-06-21 |title=God's Billy Pulpit |work=Time |date=1993-11-15 |accessdate=2011-11-07 }}</ref> 

In 1995, during the Global Mission event, he preached a sermon at [[Estadio Hiram Bithorn]] in [[San Juan (Puerto Rico)|San Juan]] in [[Puerto Rico]] which was transmitted by satellite in 185 countries and translated into 116 languages. <ref> Andrew S. Finstuen, Anne Blue Wills, Grant Wacker, ''Billy Graham: American Pilgrim'', Oxford University Press, UK, 2017, p. 104</ref>

During his crusades, Billy Graham frequently used the [[altar call]] song "[[Just as I Am (hymn)#Altar Song in the Billy Graham crusades|Just As I Am]]".<ref> {{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2018-02-21 |title='Just As I Am' was Billy Graham's signature hymn |url=https://religionnews.com/2018/02/21/just-as-i-am-was-billy-grahams-signature-hymn/ |access-date=2023-11-16 |website=Religion News Service |language=en-US}} </ref>

{{stack|[[File:Countries that preacher Billy Graham visited for his crusades.jpg|thumb|Countries in which Billy Graham preached are colored in blue.]]}}
Over 58 years, Billy Graham reached more than 210 million people (face to face and by satellite feeds).<ref>{{Cite book | first=Michael G. |last=Long |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pVAeaDLnCJoC&pg=PA3 |title=The legacy of Billy Graham: critical reflections on America's greatest evangelist |location=Westminster |publisher=John Knox Press |year=2008 |page=3 |isbn=9780664236564 }}</ref> The [[New York Crusade (1957)|New York Crusade of 1957]] - the longest of Graham's evangelistic crusades took place in [[Madison Square Garden (1925)|Madison Square Garden]], which lasted 16 weeks.<ref>{{Cite journal | first = Uta Andrea |last=Balbier | title = Billy Graham's Crusades in the 1950s: Neo-Evangelicalism Between Civil Religion, Media, and Consumerism | journal = Bulletin of the GHI | publisher = German Historical Institute | volume = 44 | date = Spring 2009}}</ref> The largest audience in the history of Graham's ministry assembled at Yoido Plaza in [[Seoul]] in South Korea in 1973 (1.1&nbsp;million people).<ref name=ct>{{Cite web | title = Prophecy and Politics | date = March 2006 | url = http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/march/17.32.html | publisher = Christianity Today | access-date = 2011-11-21 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | title = War and Peace in Korea | url = http://www.ccel.us/billy.ch18.html | publisher = CCEL | access-date = 2011-11-21 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120413160046/http://www.ccel.us/billy.ch18.html | archive-date = 2012-04-13 | url-status = dead }}</ref>

Graham's revival meetings were most commonly called "[[crusades]]", and were billed as such for decades, but Graham himself began calling them "missions" after the [[September 11 attacks]] due to a potentially offensive connotation of the word ''crusade'' among [[Muslim]]s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/billy-graham-is-back/ |title=Billy Graham Is Back |work=cbsnews.com |date=2002-10-18 |access-date=2016-12-08 |quote='Following September 11th, there was increased consciousness of other faiths in the U.S. that would find the term ''crusade'' offensive', Graham spokeswoman Melany Ethridge told [[The Associated Press]] in 2002 |first=Matt |last=Curry }}</ref>

Concluding his last crusade in 2005 in [[New York City|New York]], Graham had preached during 417 crusades, including 226 in the United States and 195 worldwide in over 50 countries, predominantly in [[Christendom]].<ref> {{Cite web |last=Grossman |first=Cathy Lynn |title=Billy Graham reached millions through his crusades. Here's how he did it |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/02/21/billy-graham-crusades-how-evangelists-reached-millions/858165001/ |access-date=2023-11-16 |website=USA TODAY |language=en-US}}</ref><ref> Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, [https://billygraham.org/news/media-resources/electronic-press-kit/crusade-cities/crusades/ BILLY GRAHAM CRUSADES], billygraham.org, retrieved June 5, 2023</ref>