Baptist Press: As he has for 60 years, Billy Graham ended his three-day New York crusade by offering about 90,000 in the crowd a glimpse of heaven Sunday night.
But as in perhaps no other crusade in his long history of evangelism, New York provided heaven's face.
Tucked into a corner of Queens where more than 130 languages are spoken each day, the June 24-26 Greater New York Billy Graham Crusade drew more than 230,000 people from every part of the world -- whites, blacks, Asians, Hispanics, people whose families came to America generations ago and people so fresh they still marvel at this nation and its freedoms and opportunities.
The remarkable diversity reflects the host city, home to the sort of integration of God's people Graham has advocated for all his evangelical career, and fitting for what many considered could be his last such gathering.
