The following is an update from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association on the Birmingham Festival of Hope events. God truly moved and many lives were changed!
To God be the glory, great things He has done!! The Greater Birmingham Festival of Hope with Franklin Graham was an incredible experience of the Church in our city uniting to see the Gospel of Jesus Christ proclaimed. Praise the Lord with me for His great work:
- 300 – Church and ministries uniting to participate
- 1,000 – Volunteers, 800 of whom were trained as counselors
- 2,000 – Attendees at the Christian Life and Witness Course and FM419
- 30 – Small groups prepared to follow up with those who made decisions (in addition to hundreds of congregations)
- 22,694 – Cumulative attendees over the three nights at Bartow Arena. The highest attended evening was Sunday (9,878 attending)
- 619 – Total number of spiritual decisions, including:
- 405 – Salvation decisions
- 50 – Assurance of salvation decisions
- 135 – Rededication decisions
- 619 – Total number of spiritual decisions, including:
- 43,658 – Total number of unique web stream visitors (Every evening gathering was presented live on the internet around the world.)
- 100 – Countries in which people watched the web stream
- 934 – Spiritual decisions on the internet stream
- 1,666 – Grand total of spiritual responses (including in the Arena, at the training events and on the Internet).
PRAISE THE LORD FOR HIS MARVELOUS WORK!
Kevin Moore,
Co Leader, Greater Birmingham Festival of Hope with Franklin Graham
Executive Director, Mission Birmingham