Evangelists · Jesus People · Tibet · California missions
Little salary, clogged roads, a million in Seoul; barefoot prophets; first over the Himalaya; a chain of missions up the coast.
Bias: toward God. Method: cite libraries and papers; show the fruit; map the road.
Salary, not the plate. After early crusades, Graham put himself on a fixed salary from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association — not a cut of the offering. Mid-1950s reporting put that household salary around $15,000/year, with Ruth running the books and Billy carrying pocket cash while the Association covered road expenses. Modesto Manifesto (1948): no love-offering skim, no inflated crowd brags, no appearance of sexual compromise.
They clogged the road. The old Montreat house sat in public view and became a mecca for motorists, hitchhikers, and busloads of sightseers. The family moved to a more cloistered home up a rough mile-and-a-half road; townspeople protected his privacy and would not give directions.
~1.1 million in Korea. June 3, 1973 — Seoul’s Yoido Plaza — closing night of the crusade; local estimates ~1.1 million present (largest single crowd of his career; ~3M+ across the week). Many walked. They prayed and stood for Christ in numbers that bent the grid.
Late-’60s / early-’70s Jesus People: long hair, sandals, Bibles on the Strip and the beach — “Jesus Freaks” in the magazines.
Lonnie Frisbee — often called the first Jesus freak / hippie preacher; self-described “seeing prophet”; spark at Calvary Chapel with Chuck Smith; later Vineyard outpouring with John Wimber. Looked like he walked out of the Gospels barefoot-adjacent — the prophet vibe Bri means.
Arthur Blessitt — carried a wooden cross on foot across nations (literal “take up your cross”); Sunset Strip coffeehouse roots → global cross-walks. Another Jesus People extreme of obedience-as-feet.
António de Andrade (Portuguese Jesuit) with lay brother Manuel Marques — 1624 — crossed the Himalayas into the Kingdom of Guge (western Tibet / Tsaparang). First known European Christian missionaries to establish a Catholic mission on Tibetan soil (church begun ~1625). Mission later collapsed under political upheaval.
“First” here = first known Jesuit / Catholic mission into Tibet proper via that route — historians use that phrasing carefully.
Franciscans planted 21 missions in Alta California (1769–1823), roughly a day’s ride apart, linked by El Camino Real from San Diego to Sonoma. Serra and successors; bells and adobe — and also Indigenous cost (name it honestly when you dig deeper).
Figure: schematic only · for GPS use Visit California / Wikipedia list.
Fruit of belief · Reagan · Theorem G · Christmas / Copernicus
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