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...national leaders" to a glittering "Congress of the Laity" in Los Angeles next February. The vague forum, devised by wealthy Lay Evangelist Howard Butt Jr., is intended to gather in one place the broadest possible collection of influential people who are at least "open to the leadership of Jesus Christ...
...Global Soul Seeker Bill Bright, 56, director of the successful Campus Crusade for Christ, plans to raise $100 million next year?and a cool $1 billion by 1982?for another project. Its aim is to saturate the earth with Gospel preachers and placards. Bright, who is based in Arrowhead Springs, Calif., describes the effort as "the most extensive Christian social and evangelization mission in recorded history." A number of the richest businessmen in America are backing his campaign...
...first week in February. At age 59, the grand old man of Evangelicalism is as popular and active as ever. Last week he brought the Gospel to 75,000 people at Nehru Stadium in Madras, India. About 1,500 accepted his invitation to "come forward saying 'Yes' to Jesus Christ." Graham's Minneapolis office now receives $28.7 million a year from the 8 million apostles on its mailing list...
...face of Jesus in the full moon over Cannes. Cleaver was later converted by a prison "God squad." In Will You Die for Me? (Revell), due in April, Charles ("Tex") Watson, leader of the vicious Tate-LaBianca murders, tells how he supplanted Charles Manson with Jesus Christ. Watson, a mandatory lifer, now preaches three times a month and teaches a weekly class for newly converted convicts...
...prosperity. The real progress of the faith is less visible. It goes on at the grass-roots level from one convert to another in thousands of local congregations, some of them quite small and isolated. It is a highly personal brotherhood. And for most Evangelicals the experience of receiving Christ is the principal event of any Christian life...