Prayer and preparation Headquarters for the Jacksonville Billy Graham Crusade, scheduled Thursday through Sunday at Alltel Stadium, is a sprawling office suite off Art Museum Drive on the Southside. The space was once home to Landstar trucking company. Inside, aerial photographs from previous crusades line the walls. A large warehouse-like room is filled with posters, signs and other promotional materials ready for distribution to area churches. Volunteer Sue Craven, working at the Jacksonville Billy Graham Crusade's Southside offices, checks the Christian witness class cards against church lists as part of the effort to keep track of the thousands of volunteers needed to stage a successful crusade.
People can relate to being a missionary in a foreign country.
It's the best job I've ever had. Their work began right after Christmas. The purple and teal Jacksonville crusade logo features a drawing of the Dames Point bridge framed by palm trees. The largest word in the logo is Jacksonville. Lenning and other employees of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association take great pains to emphasize that they and Graham are here at the invitation of local pastors and business people.