| General Description: Following WWII, large group rallies became extremely popular in the U.S. as a primary means of evangelism. As the hunger for God's Word and requests for help with the rallies grew, so did one man's vision for expanding the effort into a national movement.
In 1944, on a fishing trip off of the coast of Florida, Torrey Johnson, a Chicago pastor, shared his vision of a national movement with Billy Graham, asking him to become the organization's first evangelist and employee. Beginning almost simultaneously in dozens of cities, Youth for Christ quickly became a national movement, with Torrey Johnson as the first president and Billy Graham as its first full-time employee. Indianapolis was the first place that the organization was first called Youth for Christ.
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