When is Rev. Billy Graham going to drop dead and stop being Chairman of Billy Graham evangelistic organization and steal a full time salary and doing very little for it?

Graham's finances are an open book reported Darren Barbee -Star-Telegram Staff Writer on October 12, 2002 based on statements made by a Graham's spokewoman?

Early in Billy Graham's career, the preacher made a series of calculated decisions to insulate his ministry from the temptations of greed.
"He was aware that a lot of evangelists had been shipwrecked by their weakness for money or women," said William Martin, a Rice University sociology professor who is Graham's biographer.
Today, after Graham's more than 50 years in ministry, Christians and non-Christians know the North Carolina preacher's reputation for financial integrity. It's a reputation that has helped pack stadiums around the world and is expected to help draw more than 200,000 to Texas Stadium in Irving during a four-day mission beginning Thursday.
… The Minneapolis-based organization's finances are available for public examination on IRS returns called Form 990s, and they are broken down in an annual audit prepared by accounting firm Ernst & Young. The most recent audit found no material weaknesses in the ministry's 2001 finances, a Graham spokeswoman said.
… In 2000, Graham was paid $197,911, plus benefits and an expense account, for his work as chairman of his ministry, according to the organization's Form 990.

But the Star-Telegram and the Graham spokeswoman failed to point out the fact that Graham worked less than 25 days in 2000 and no other employee in his organization is paid 100 % salary for being sick 80 percent of the time! As a matter of fact Graham has worked less than 50 percent of the time for the last ten years. He has spent more than 50 percent of his time in the hospital or in bed.

The Star-Telegram and the Graham spokeswoman also failed to point out all the things that are charged to his organization that are not included in his total compensation including a full time nurse for his wife and Billy, a private secretary to meet their every whims, and other personal expenses that are charged directly to the corporation. That is why the Graham's never release their personal income tax to the public because they would have to list these things as benefits.
Billy Graham doesn't work 100 % of the time and isn't entitled to a 100 % salary.

The Star-Telegram and the Graham spokeswoman also failed to point out the fact that Billy Graham Evangelistic Organization of Canada refused to provide the total compensation of Billy Graham when requested by Wally Duncaster. As a matter of record Scott Wiebe of the BGEO of Canada in his email of July 30, 2002 on the subject of the total compensation of Billy Graham and Franklin Graham stated;

"I do not believe charitable Associations in Canada are obligated to publicly declare the compensation directly supplied to an individual employee, but I would think they will be able to provide you with a financial report that will give you a fair indication of their compensation expenses."

So Billy Graham Evangelistic Organization of Canada has refused to give the total compensation of Billy Graham even though BGEO tax exemption came from the public and not from God? So much for their perceived integrity of the lack of it!

But the fact remains that the foolish shepherds in America have forgotten that humility and submission are for them and not just the sheep. They are poor shepherds and they don't even know it. They walk in their intellectualism and sarcasm and wonder why they are not growing as individuals and as a church body. They are full of hypocrisy and false attitudes and walk in pride, arrogance and selfishness. They walk over the bodies of the widowed, orphaned, divorced, imprisoned and wounded as so much garbage under their feet forgetting they are why they exist. They exist to serve that very garbage they look down upon so much.

They have rejected the power of the Holy Spirit to bring supernatural healing to the sheep. They have chosen take the sheep's money for themselves and their building programs rather than distribute all of it to the poor, not just the portions they chose to give away.

Unfortunately deception is everywhere in the Christian Church. It insidiously fills every nook and cranny of a Christian's mind until they are full of falsehoods and are so certain all they believe is truth. Does a man speak and God spoke? Does a man think and God thought? Does a man act and God act? No! A thousand times, No! If God uses a man just for a brief moment does that mean he has the mind of God all the time? No!

Very few men in the bible actually held God's power within them for an entire life time. Most men or women of God were people of integrity whom He used when a specific task was required and then they returned to being whom they were.

They did not take pride in being used of God. They were simply used and grateful for it. But not this generation of religious leaders. No, every word that proceeds from their mouth is God's. Every thought they think is from the Lord. Every action they take is God's will. Especially Evangelist Benny Hinn who has to let the whole world know how wonderful and great he is. As Jesus said of them "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cumming, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone. (Matthew 23:23)

The true sheep Hear the Shepherd's Voice. They hear Him in the night watches. They hear Him in the fray of battle. They hear Him when they have been wronged. They hear Him when they are sad or happy. They hear Him and follow Him and act as He would have them to. They can't help it--they are His true sheep. His love runs too deep in them. They can't help but serve Him and honor Him and do His bidding. Their comfort and wealth is of no importance to them because they are all His-body, soul and spirit!

Sold out! Not just in words but in deeds. Sold out to the Kingdom of God and His righteousness! Sold out to wherever the truth may lead them. Sold out to the guidance of the Holy Spirit in their daily lives. Sold out to never harming others for personal gain. Sold out to have a "word of honor," to hold to their integrity no matter the cost, to walk in the power of God no matter how foreign it may seem to them. Sold Out! Sold Out! Sold Out-TOTALLY!

Sold out, is not sitting in a comfortable office, with a PH. D. hanging on the wall, and looking out onto a dirty world. Sold out, is getting out of the office, leaving the PH. D. behind and getting involved with the homeless and finding them a home. Getting involved with the prostitute and lifting her out of her mire to a better place. Loving as well as praying for the lowly and needy. The act of showing love is more important than any prayer you can offer for them. Praying from a distance is easy.

Getting into the prison with them requires time, energy and your emotional involvement. It's not for the weak of stomach. It's not for the con-artist and opportunist. It's for a true shepherd who has heard the Shepherd's voice and responded to His true call. It's not a profession it's a faith. Their PH.D. means nothing in God's equation. It is a piece of useless paper that only they and their false colleges admire.

Though I speak the tongues of men and angels and have not love it profit me nothing.

The Associated Baptist Press - www.abpnews.com on April 3, 2001 also reported that "About half of Baptist organizations contacted by the independent newspaper Baptists Today would not disclose salary information for their top executive. Three Southern Baptist Convention entities said policies allowed them to release only salary ranges.

Presidents Albert Mohler of Southern Seminary in Louisville, Ky., and Kenneth Hemphill of Southwestern Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, declined to provide any information on compensation. New Orleans Seminary did not return numerous phone calls regarding the salary of President Charles Kelley. However, the IRS requires all colleges and universities to report the salaries of the top five paid staff members, Brumley explained."

It is safe to say that some of the smoothest Southern Baptist thieves in America are Rev. Billy, Ned and Franklin Graham who hide their total compensation including special privileges and expenses in his North Carolina home paid by BGEA, including support staff and are in the hundreds of thousands of dollars and possibly closer to a million dollars.

Due to the art of stonewalling the true total compensation of the Graham's are very well hidden and kept a secret. For even though he was sick and dying, spent over fifty percent of his time in bed or the hospital, Dr. Billy Graham had been taking a one hundred percent salary and other benefits from the B.G.E.A. that he had founded: Even though the I.R.S. rules stated that no non-profit organization should exist for the benefit of one individual.

No other salaried employee in B.G.E.A. was allowed to take a one hundred percent salary plus his pension fund and other perks and spends so many days being sick, as Billy Graham has done and does. Where was the justice or integrity in all of this?

..."As CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, he collects an annual salary of $115,500, plus a $38,500 housing allowance. The organization and its affiliates brought in $139- million in contributions and revenue last year" reported the St. Petersburg Times during the Billy Graham Crusade in Tampa in 1998. It also reported "Graham, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, has crusades planned next year in Indianapolis and St. Paul."

IT'S TO BE NOTED FRANKIN'S GRAHAM'S REAL TOTAL COMPENSATION AND PERSONAL USE OF HIS COMPANY PLANE IS STILL A REAL PROBLEM TODAY AND NED GRAHAM'S PROBLEMS HAVE PROBLEMS! ALSO BILLY GRAHAM'S REPORTED ANNUAL SALARY FROM THE BGEA FINANCIAL STATEMENT IS OVER $ 200,000 AND IN REALITY IS ABOUT $450.000.

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 formed "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

Although it's the public right as well as each donor's right to know and ask questions about the total remuneration of Southern Baptist Billy Graham, including special privileges and expenses in his North Carolina home paid by BGEA, including support staff. Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Samaritan's Purse, and Campus Crusade For Christ have developed the art of stonewalling when it comes to special remuneration and expenses of it's chairmen.

Many prominent Baptist evangelists in America, such as Billy and Franklin Graham, belong to the Evangelical Council of Financial Accountability that purports to work on behalf of the donor but in reality exists for the spenders. Although ECFA has in its possessions the total salaries of all the religious evangelical non-profit organizations that belong to it, it will not disclose them.

Christian News Today requested such information from ECFA but to no avail, although the hypocritical motto of ECFA is "For we are taking pains to do what is right, not only in the eyes of the LORD, but also in the eyes of men"

Although it's the public right as well as each donor's right to know and ask questions about the total remuneration of Southern Baptist Billy Graham, including special privileges and expenses in his North Carolina home paid by BGEA, including support staff. Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Samaritan's Purse, and Campus Crusade For Christ have developed the art of stonewalling when it comes to special remuneration and expenses of it's chairmen.

Many prominent Baptist evangelists in America, such as Billy and Franklin Graham, belong to the Evangelical Council of Financial Accountability that purports to work on behalf of the donor but in reality exists for the spenders. For although ECFA has in its possessions the total salaries of all the religious evangelical non-profit organizations that belong to it, it will not disclose them.

Jeffrey K. Hadden and Charles E. Swann reported that Graham is a fundamentalist, at least to the extent that he has organized his life and ministry around the literal truth of the Scriptures. But he has never displayed any interest in the battle cries of fundamentalism. He is just not an "aginner." Graham is a Southern Baptist but downplays denominationalism. His wife is a Presbyterian, and their home is in Montreat, North Carolina, a Presbyterian conference, vacation, and retirement center.

Graham typifies the evangelicalism that the more traditional and conservative members of nearly all U.S. mainline Protestant denominations have in common. He is the TV preacher of choice for evangelical mainliners, who number many millions.

The finances of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association have been scrutinized many times. Graham has come out clean, but he was embarrassed in 1977 when the Charlotte Observer discovered an undisclosed $23-million fund in Texas, apparently not mentioned in the accountings of the Minneapolis headquarters. Since then, anyone who requests a copy of the BGEA audit is mailed one. Graham's business manager led the formation of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability after Graham said on a national telecast, ". . . there are some charlatans coming along and the public ought to be informed about them and warned against them." (Chapter 2:The Video Vicarage Prime Time Preachers by Jeffrey K. Hadden and Charles E. Swann)

http://religiousbroadcasting.lib.virginia.edu/primetime/C2.html

The Billy Graham Crusades have been held in most of the major cities in the United States and in more than fifty foreign countries. The largest Crusade attendance occurred in Seoul, Korea, in the spring of 1973. Seoul security officers reported that one million one hundred thousand people attended the closing meeting. Dr. Graham spoke to the worshipers through an interpreter.

Billy Graham is among the most widely read non-fiction authors living today, and his books have become an important arm of his world-wide ministry. His books, The Jesus Generator, (1971) has been published in fifteen languages. Peace with God, (1953) is now available in thirty-eight languages.

Dr. Graham's books have established several book publishing records. Angels-God's Secret Agents sold a million hardback copies in the first ninety days after publication. (Dr. Graham gave his entire earnings from the book to Wheaton College.) The large American publishing house, Doubleday, had not before had such a demand for a non-fiction book. Dr. Graham's 1977 book, How to be Born Again, is believed to have had the largest first printing ever accorded a hardback edition by an American book publisher.

Dr. Graham's counsel has been sought by presidents and kings. His appeal to both the secular and non-secular worlds is shown by the wide range of groups that have honored him. These recognitions range from addressing the President's National Prayer Breakfast to the Gold Award of the George Washington Carver Memorial Institute, and from the Speaker of the Year Award to the Salvation Army's Distinguished Service Medal. Graham regularly is listed as one of the "Ten Most Admired Men in the World" and has been named "Man of the Year" by Time magazine.

William Franklin Graham, Jr., known to the world as Billy Graham, was born on November 7, 1918 near Charlotte, North Carolina to William Franklin and Morrow Coffey Graham. The first of four children, he was raised in a Christian family which regularly attended the Associated Reformed Presbyterian Church.

In 1934 Evangelist Mordecai Fowler Ham preached a series of revival meetings in Charlotte, stirring up considerable controversy with his charges of moral laxity in Charlotte high schools. Attracted by the controversy, Billy Graham attended the meetings and Ham's preaching led him to commit his life to Jesus Christ.

In the fall of 1936, Billy Graham entered the Bob Jones College in Cleveland, Tennessee. Although he contemplated the possibility of Christian work, he could not adjust to campus life at the college, and left after a few months. He transferred in January, 1937, to Florida Bible Seminary (now Trinity Bible Institute) from which he graduated in 1940 with a Bachelor's Degree in theology. He began preaching on street comers and at rescue missions and small churches.

Dr. Graham has also been influential in the founding of Christianity Today Magazine in 1955, organizing the World Congress on Evangelism in Berlin in 1966, Decision Magazine which has a circulation of more than three million copies and the International Congress on World Evangelization in Lausanne in 1974.

In 1980, Dr. Graham dedicated the Billy Graham Center on the campus of Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. This multi-million dollar, five-story building houses archives documenting on the history of American Protestant evangelism and missions, a library of thousands of volumes on evangelism and missions, and a museum with exhibits on the history of Graham's ministry. The building also houses the graduate school of Wheaton College, offering Master of Arts degrees in four fields-Christian Ministries, Communications, Psychological Studies and Theological Studies.

The St. Petersburg Times reported on Oct 11, 1998: Graham helped start the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, a self-policing organization, and has insisted that neither he nor any other male employees of his organization meet privately with a woman other than their wives

…In 1992 his ministry, Samaritan's Purse, had a run-in with the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, the self-policing organization his father helped start. The ECFA suspended Samaritan's Purse while it looked into Franklin's (Graham) compensation and use of the company plane.

Billy Graham attended the infamous racist and bigoted Bob Jones University associated with Senator John Ashcroft and George W. Bush. Bob Jones University in South Carolina, a fundamentalist Christian college and a bastion of Independent Fundamental Baptists, had banned interracial dating and has been attacked by critics for anti-Catholic views. The school lost its tax exemption in 1983 after a 13-year battle with the Internal Revenue , when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld an IRS decision critical of its discriminatory practices. BJU now admits blacks but keeps the ban on interracial dating based on a biblical interpretation that God created people differently for a reason.

Bob Jones University leaders have criticized the pope and labeled the Catholic church a ``Satanic cult'' say that the pope is the antichrist, forbid interracial dating, and teaches that speaking in tongues as a result of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit is of the devil! The Associated Press reported that Bob Jones University first president, the Rev. Bob Jones Sr., was the son of a Confederate soldier and a self-declared anti-Catholic and segregationist. He was quoted at the school's founding saying, "I would rather see a saloon on every corner than a Catholic in the White House. I would rather see a n- as president."

But bigoted books anti catholic books published by Bob Jones University are used in many Southern Baptist Christian schools including Tampa Baptist Academy furthering intolerance and hatred of others. All of this is not surprising considering the fact that the members of the Southern Baptist denomination whose roots was founded in racism prior to the Civil War when they split from the Northern Baptists because of the slave issues, were singing in the choir on Sunday and were burning crosses on Monday as active members of the Klu Klux Klan. Only recently have the Southern Baptists admitted to their racists sins and bigotry.

Between 1998 and 2002 Billy Graham received a 100 % salary raise for working less hours. As CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, he collects an annual salary of $115,500, plus a $38,500 housing allowance. The organization and its affiliates brought in $139- million in contributions and revenue last year reported the St. Petersburg Times during the Billy Graham Crusade in Tampa in 1998. … IN 2000, GRAHAM WAS PAID $197,911, PLUS BENEFITS AND AN EXPENSE ACCOUNT, FOR HIS WORK AS CHAIRMAN OF HIS MINISTRY, ACCORDING TO THE ORGANIZATION'S FORM 990. OF COURSE GRAHAM DOESN'T RELEASE HIS PERSONAL INCOME TAX AS HIS FRIEND GEORGE BUSH DOES?

The St. Petersburg Times also reported Graham, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, has crusades planned next year in Indianapolis and St. Paul. He was so unsteady on his feet Tuesday he had to be shuttled in a car and a golf cart from the news conference in the club area of the stadium to the nearby football field, where he posed for photographs. His return to Tampa, one of only two crusades he agreed to this year, is a homecoming of sorts. ( In actual fact Billy earned at least $ 100,000 per crusade that year?)

Graham said that even though he is weak, he still believes he has work to do.

He joked that the task became abundantly clear one recent day when he was on an airplane with a drunk passenger. He said the passenger kept harassing the flight attendant until he realized Graham was sitting behind him. He said the passenger then turned around and offered his hand to Graham. "Put her there," the drunk passenger told Graham. "Your sermons sure have helped me."

"There is something that can be corrupting about power and notoriety," said Paul Nelson, president of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, which reviews Graham's finances each year. "God bless them, they (Graham's organization) have been able to navigate that." (These remarks turned out to be false for Billy Graham's total compensation was a lot higher according to the financial statement of B.G.E.A. not including fringe benefits pension and health care expenditures and he spent fifty percent of his time in bed?)

So how can American TV preachers preach to others if they are hiding their total salaries? They cannot! It only shows they have no integrity, especially Rodney Howard Browne who has his parents on the payroll and Benny Hinn who has his family on the payroll and Dr. Billy Graham who pretends to be something that he is not. For the Tampa Tribune reported that:

Although Billy Graham encourages religious leaders to be open about their salaries and publish their finances, Howard-Browne would not disclose what he earns. He says his salary is determined by his board of directors, which is comprised of four pastors, himself and his wife. The couple does not vote on his salary. ``People get hung up on the figure,'' he says. ``But they don't take everything into account. I don't get a housing or clothing allowance. We take our kids on the road and that's very expensive.''

Not good enough, says Paul Nelson, president of the Evangelical Council of Financial Accountability in Washington. Revival Ministries International is not among its 925 members. ``When you hold yourself out as a public trust, it's just good practice to be open about your finances,'' he says. ``If you're not forthright, you leave a question in the minds of your potential givers.''

For the past five years, the ministry has been audited by Katz & Kamm, a Baltimore accounting firm. But the tax-exempt church association is not required to open its books to the public. `While I applaud them for getting the audit, I would strongly suggest they go one step further and make their records public,'' Nelson says.

Speaking of making their records public, "open about your finances'' and "forthright," while Paul Nelson, President of Evangelical Council of Financial Accountability reveals upon demand even to strangers his total salary of $ 123,000 and IRS tax form 990 Billy, Ned and Franklin Graham do not. This makes the Grahams and ECFA hypocrites.

Many prominent Baptist evangelists in America, such as Billy and Franklin Graham, belong to the Evangelical Council of Financial Accountability that purports to work on behalf of the donor but in reality exists for the spenders. For although ECFA has in its possessions the total salaries of all the religious evangelical non-profit organizations that belong to it, it will not disclose them?"

Why is it that the Religious Evangelical leaders in America such as Bill Bright and Billy Graham who profess Christ and the love of Truth will not disclose their total salaries nor release their personal income tax to their donors? Is it possible that they are really crooks who use the separation of Church and State to fleece the sheep as South African Evangelist Dr. Rodney Howard-Browne had said, it was their responsibility to fleece the sheep?

Evangelist Howard Browne winter camp meeting in the USF Sun Dome in Tampa Florida attended by two CNT reporters, South African Pentecostal Evangelist Dr. Rodney Howard Browne taught pastors that "sheep needed to be fleeced or they would have too much hair and could not see where they are going. It was the pastors job to fleece the sheep."

Dr. Rodney Howard- Browne had been credited with bringing the laughter revival to America. But from what really happened in Carpenter's Home Church in 1993 and 1994 and its devastating effect on the community including the robbing, raping and murdering of the sheep, was not much of a revival. The leadership of the Assembly of God denomination, both in Lakeland and Missouri, also would not accept the testimony of one of its members Roy Aldrich that he was robbed and raped by money changers and wolves in sheep's clothing in Carpenter's Home Church during the so called "revival". But the State of Florida who cared about justice, righteousness and truth accepted the words and testimony of Roy Aldrich about the Straders.

The Florida State prosecutors proved their case and convinced the jurors that Dan Strader, the son of the senior pastor Karl Strader, devised an elaborate scheme to attract cash in the real-estate and mortgage investments. He was selling the securities without a license and that the securities were unregistered. This was done in an organized method amounting to Racketeer-Influence and Corrupt Organizations, or RICO Act.

Daniel, 37, was sentenced to 45 years in prison in August 1995. He was convicted of 238 felony counts for bilking 57 mostly elderly investors, some members of the church, out of $2.3 million by selling investments in properties that didn't exist or already had liens against them. Others who were involved along with Dan Strader were not pursed by the State of Florida as they felt that the conviction of Daniel Strader was a good example for others to take notice.

Dr Rodney Howard Browne used his influence and powers to raise money at Carpenter's Home Church to buy the senior pastor Karl Strader his much needed second Lincoln Town Car. But when Rodney was requested to use his influence and power to raise money for the unfortunate elderly victims of Dan's Strader, he refused.

It is to be noted that Howard-Browne's standard biography claims he once served as an associate pastor at Rhema. But according to Rhema church officials contacted, Howard-Browne was never an associate pastor-nor did he ever hold any pastoral credentials or responsibilities. Said Kelmeyer: "Rodney was never an associate pastor here. He was an ordained minister by the state and a lecturer at our Bible school, but was not involved in any form of pastoral work."

Howard-Browne also claimed a "doctorate of ministry degree" from an obscure San Jacinto, California correspondence institution called "The School of Bible Theology." A state Department of Education employee contacted likened the tiny school, which bills itself as "The Seminary to the World" and has no faculty, to a "diploma mill."

Why are Evangelical leaders in America hiding their total personal salaries? Are they ashamed that they earn so much or not enough? Or are they Crooks and Liars? Mind you the latter is more plausible for Evangelical Leaders in America, be they Billy or Franklin, Graham, Bill Bright, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell or others, have no integrity whatsoever; especially when it comes to their own personal salaries and those of their special friends.

David Taggart, a twenty-nine-year-old "personal aide" to Jim Bakker and his lover, received $360,000 in 1986 for special services. While in 1986 the Bakkers were paid $1.9 million. It is a fact the PTL Club was full of personal misconduct, mismanagement, and pillaging of the PTL treasury.

So are the others any different? For the total salaries of the Billy Graham and his sons and family are one of American's best-kept secrets and even their personal lives that are no different than that of Jim Bakker!

It's evident that they are nothing but thieves, liars and wolves in sheep's clothing

Source: Wally Duncaster

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