Early 1999, East Gates quietly resigned from the Evangelical Council
for Financial Accountability (11/6 World). East Gates works in
cooperation with Red China's official China Christian Council and
Amity Printing Co. Ned Graham is said to have built good relations
with these Communist Party religion-control officials.
Carol Graham accuses her husband of infidelity, domestic violence,
and
drug and alcohol abuse. His church stopped supporting East Gates and
revoked his ministerial license. We derive no joy in reporting such a
tragic situation. (Calvary Contender) http://home.hiwaay.net/~contendr/1999/12-1-1999.html
What is the connection between Peter Lowe and Ned Graham, the son of
Billy Graham?
Christian News Today reported Billy Graham has raised up two sons Ned
and Franklin who are as deceitful as their father. Ned Graham, the
son
of Billy Graham, Southern Baptist minister, president East Gates
International, a group that distributes Bibles in China told
Christianity Today in an interview that he had abused alcohol and
spent an "inappropriate amount of time" with two women on his staff.
Grace Community Church, Southern Baptist Convention, in Auburn,
Washington--which counted Ned Graham, his wife, and their two sons as
members established the fact that Ned Graham was an adulterer,
alcoholic, wife abuser, and drug user and revoked Graham's
ministerial
credentials. It directed Graham to stop using the title reverend.
Yet in a style reminiscent of Jimmy Swaggart, who refused to be
defrocked by the Assembly of God denomination, Ned Graham left that
congregation for another church.
Most of the staff and board members of East Gates International
resigned amid controversies. East Gates, in Sumner, Wash., withdrew
its membership in the Evangelical Council for Financial
Accountability
after Ned replaced the board members with his sister Ruth Graham
McIntyre, brother-in-law Stephan Tchividjian, and business leader
Peter Lowe.
Graham's sister Gigi Tchividjian has joined the office staff and Ned
Graham continues as East Gates president. The ECFA the self-policing
organization Billy Graham helped start requires that a majority of
board members not be related by blood or marriage, which is no longer
the case for East Gates.
A December East Gates fund-raising letter included a note from his
father saying that "Ruth and I are proud of and grateful to God for
our son Ned." East Gates has distributed 2 million Bibles to
Christians in China, Billy Graham said, encouraging Christians to
"back this unique and effective ministry."
It is interesting to see the most famous "evangelist" (some say) not
being able to educate his children, especially Ned. At the same time,
having a bunch of so-called Christians following the leadership of
such wreckless person.
Franklin Graham wears jeans, boots, denim shirt, and leather jacket.
He was a teen rebel who drank, smoked, fought, and led police on
high-
speed chases. He was kicked out of LeTourneau College. He used to be
a
rebel and a 'bum' got religion and become more sophisticated and took
over "the Samaritan's Purse' so that he can fly around the country
and
charge things to his non-profit corporation. As a result his
ministry,
Samaritan's Purse, had a run-in with the Evangelical Council for
Financial Accountability. The ECFA suspended Samaritan's Purse while
it looked into Franklin's (Graham) compensation and use of the
company
plane.