Montreat partners with Billy Graham association

MONTREAT – Montreat College has partnered with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association to offer a Preaching and Evangelism concentration as part of the school’s Bible and Religion program.

Montreat professors will use a curriculum developed by the BGEA to teach some of the college-level courses, according to a news release from the college.

“I believe strongly in this training, and I think it would be a benefit to any Christian college, or even any Christian,” the Rev. William “Will” Graham, vice president and associate evangelist at the BGEA and a trustee at Montreat College, said in the release.

The classes will be offered online as well.

“This will allow some students in Asheville, Charlotte, and Black Mountain to get the same type of class and to get a very good course on evangelism, on how to share their faith,” Graham said.

The partnership between Montreat College and the BGEA is part of a larger connection between the school and the Graham family that stretches back nearly a century, according to the release.

“Montreat College has been a special place for the Graham family,” said Graham, whose grandfather Billy Graham still lives in Montreat. “Montreat is the local college there in the community where my grandparents live, where my great-grandparents lived, and it was where my dad would go to school for a while. My grandparents always had a love for the college and they would have a lot of the students up at the house personally to entertain them and to disciple them.”