Kansas City, Mo.--The Heart of America Billy Graham Crusade set for Kansas City this summer has been rescheduled, according to Baptist Press. The Kansas City Crusade and the Greater Los Angeles Crusade, both originally set for this summer, have been postponed due to the 85-year-old evangelist's health. He is recovering from a partial hip replacement as well as a fractured pelvis sustained during a fall at his home May 14.

The Heart of America Billy Graham Crusade in Kansas City, Mo., has been rescheduled for Oct. 7-10, in Arrowhead Stadium. The Greater Los Angeles Billy Graham Crusade has been moved back to Nov. 18-21 and will be held in the Rose Bowl.

"[Postponing] will give Mr. Graham some time to recoup from the procedure that he had," Sherman Barnette, director of the Kansas City crusade, told Baptist Press. "The other thing it will do is give us even more time as far as preparation to get more churches and more people involved in the crusade."

Crusades have been organized more quickly in recent years due to Graham's health. Year-long preparations have been shortened to six or eight months.

According to Baptist Press, the Kansas City crusade was announced in January, the Los Angeles crusade in February.

"We were really on a fast track here in our preparation," Barnette said. "In a sense, this [delay] is going to help us."

The delay in Los Angeles means the crusade will occur during the 55th anniversary of the 1949 crusade there, an event that Graham said in his biography "forever changed the face of my ministry and my life."

Kenneth C. Ulmer, pastor of Faithful Central Bible Church and Los Angeles crusade co-chair, said in a statement that the committee's decision to postpone has been confirmed because of the history behind the new dates. Ulmer said they have "a sense of divine providence."