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Ruth Graham (links) mit Ehemann (rechts), George W. Bush (mitte) und Zwillingstöchtern in 1983. Ruth Bell Graham (* 10. Juni 1920 in Qingjiang als Ruth McCue Bell; † 14. Juni 2007 in Montreat, North Carolina) war die Ehefrau des bekannten evangelikalen Erweckungspredigers Billy Graham.
Ruth Bell Graham, wife of evangelist Billy Graham, was born at Qingjiang, Kiangsu, China, on June 10, 1920, as Ruth McCue Bell. Her parents, Dr. and Mrs. L. Nelson Bell, were medical missionaries at the Presbyterian Hospital 300 miles north of Shanghai.
- Leaving Home
- First Impressions
- The Greatest Privilege
- Adaptations
- Home Life
- ‘It’s My Turn’
A seeming injustice struck Ruth at 13. So that she would have the education she needed to return to the United States one day, her parents sent her to Pyeng Yang Foreign School in what is now Pyongyang, North Korea. Quietly, so as not to disturb her roommates, Ruth cried with homesickness every night for weeks. Several days in the infirmary finally...
Ruth arrived safely at Wheaton and studied Bible and art. After growing up with air raids and bandits, she did not fully appreciate seemingly unnecessary rules such as curfew—until the dorm mother caught her climbing through a window, returning late from a Friday night date. On Monday, the dean scolded her harshly and confined her to campus. Crushe...
After watching her from afar for a few weeks, Billy gathered his courage and asked Ruth to attend a performance of Handel’s Messiah. She accepted, and after the date she went back to her room and prayed, “Lord, if You’d let me serve You with that man, I’d consider it the greatest privilege of my life.” Billy and Ruth continued dating and began talk...
In January 1943, Billy accepted a call to pastor Western Springs Baptist Church, about 20 miles outside of Wheaton. He didn’t ask his bride-to-be what she thought of the idea, but Ruth didn’t let that stop her from telling him. Pastoring a church, she believed, would sidetrack him from his call to evangelism. It was a lesson that Billy would rememb...
Rather than complaining about staying behind, Ruth strived to make their home a shelter for Billy when he wasn’t traveling. When their home was overrun with curious tourists, she took matters into her own hands and compiled plans to build “Little Piney Cove,” a mountain home constructed of timber from abandoned log cabins. From the very beginning s...
With her children grown and married, Ruth was free to pursue her lifelong love of writing. Although she was the wife of one of the world’s most famous evangelists, self-promotion was not her motive. Since her childhood, she had used writing to release emotions that she could not express to other people. In 1975, just before publishing her first boo...
Ruth McCue Bell Graham (June 10, 1920 – June 14, 2007) was a Chinese-born American Christian author. She was born in Qingjiang, Jiangsu, Republic of China, the second of five children.
23. Nov. 2022 · Beautiful and devout, warm and acerbically witty, she established herself as a personality independent of her husband, yet fully on board with the evangelical model of wifely submission. A new...
The vibrant life of Ruth Bell Graham, wife of Billy Graham and mother to their five children, started 104 years ago. On June 10, 1920, Ruth was born to medical missionaries L. Nelson and Virginia Leftwich Bell in Qingjiang, Kiangsu, China.
24. März 2023 · Ruth Bell Graham left an undeniable legacy as a wife, mother, writer, and co-laborer in the gospel. Her life story is one of a woman who eagerly embraced God’s call on her life and lived that life with creativity, perseverance, and the love of Christ. We would all do well to follow in her footsteps.
