EAGLE PASS, Texas – Along the U.S. southern border, record numbers of people are responding to the Gospel. It’s part of a 10-city evangelistic tour by Franklin Graham that’s ministering to those hard-hit by the border crisis.
In an interview aboard his tour bus in Eagle Pass, Graham told CBN News that last year he felt the Lord prompting him to preach in the many border communities that are struggling.
“This is kind of a forgotten part of the United States,” he said. “You have cartel people who take advantage and smugglers that take advantage and you’ve got just good people that live here that get caught in the middle of all of this stuff and they have to deal with it.”
The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) is reporting a record number of responses to the Gospel invitation so far on the tour, surpassing any response the organization has seen since 2019.
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Graham’s “God Loves You Frontera Tour” began Feb. 24 in Brownsville, Texas, and concludes March 9 in Chula Vista, California. It includes stops in McAllen, Texas; Laredo,
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