Count it all joy

the long version

This book, Count It All Joy, covers more than fifty years of my life and ministry for our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Only Cliff Barrows and George Shea preceded me as Billy Graham's evangelistic team members. Some might comment that I have tried to write a biography of Billy instead of myself, which is not the case. But it still remains that my service for Christ cannot be understood apart from my friendship with Billy. My oldest brother, T.W., and I have known Billy for a half-century. That's a long, long time. Here is my feeble attempt to chronicle that journey from my teen years in Charlotte to the present. I have included so much about Billy because my life has intertwined and meshed with his. From 1947, when Billy, Cliff, Bev, and I conducted a meeting in Charlotte, we have had a virtually unbroken relationship. Admittedly, during the last fifteen years I have conducted more and more of my own crusades and have participated in fewer of Billy's. - Preface.