Billy McCormack, long-time pastor of the University Worship Center in Shreveport, Louisiana, and a founding director and vice president of the Christian Coalition of America was born in Jamestown in 1928.

* Billy McCormack ( 1928-2012 ), Baptist pastor from Shreveport, director and vice president of the Christian Coalition of America, was born in Bienville Parish and is interred at Providence Cemetery in Ringgold.

The coalition had four original directors, including Robertson himself, Robertson's son, Gordon Robertson, Dick Weinhold, head of the Texas organization, and Billy McCormack, pastor of the University Worship Center in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Two conservative legislative assistants to Representative Brooks, Ned Touchstone and Billy McCormack, went on to careers of their own in journalism and the Christian ministry.

On 26 September 2010, former Barrow coach Steve McCormack was confirmed as the head coach for the 2011 season with Ian Watson and Marlon Billy continuing in their roles as assistant coaches.

The majority of Southern Baptists, including Billy Graham, accept Arminianism with an exception allowing for a doctrine of perseverance of the saints (" eternal security ").

Larry Norman was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the oldest son of Joe Hendrex " Joe Billy " Norman ( December 9, 1923 – April 28, 1999 ), who had served as a sergeant in the US Army Air Corps during World War II and worked at the Southern Pacific Railroad while studying to become a teacher, and his wife, Margaret Evelyn " Marge " Stout ( born in 1925 in Nebraska ).

* William " Singing Billy " Walker ( 1809-1875 ), compiler of shape note tunebooks, including The Southern Harmony, and Musical Companion.

The Passion of the Christ received support and endorsement from most known evangelical leaders and representatives of USA's conservative church organizations: Billy Graham, James Dobson, Mission America Coalition, Salvation Army, Promise Keepers, National Association of Evangelicals, Campus Crusade for Christ, Focus on the Family, Pat Robertson, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Trinity Broadcasting Network, Rick Warren, Southern Baptist Convention, Jerry Falwell, Max Lucado, Young Life, Tim LaHaye, Chuck Colson, Lee Strobel, Northern Baptist Theological Seminary, Mothers of Pre-Schoolers ( MOPS ), Seventh-day Adventist Church.

In 1977, he endorsed Billy Beer, capitalizing upon his colorful image as a beer-drinking Southern good ol ' boy that developed in the press when his brother ran for President.

While continuing to support older independent evangelists such as Bob Jones, Sr. and Hyman Appelman, Rice now also endorsed the newer ministries of Youth for Christ, the Southern Baptist evangelist R. G. Lee, and especially, the young Billy Graham.

Many writers contributed to the screenplay, including Southern ( who wrote most of the dialogue for Sellers ), Woody Allen, Wolf Mankowitz, Michael Sayers, Frank Buxton, Joseph Heller, Ben Hecht, Mickey Rose, and Billy Wilder.

Barty also starred in a local Southern California children's show, Billy Barty's Bigtop, in the mid-1960s, which regularly showed The Three Stooges shorts.

He takes immense pride in his Southern heritage, most of his history knowledge centered around events such as the Alamo and Western characters such as Billy the Kid.

* The John Boy and Billy Big Show, a morning radio show in the Southern United States

* Daniel Southern ( evangelist ), author, speaker and noted American evangelical leader, former Crusade Director with Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, former President of American Tract Society.

After 200 Motels, the band went on tour ; the live album Just Another Band From L. A. included the 20-minute track " Billy the Mountain ", Zappa's satire on rock opera set in Southern California.

In Fall of 2011, Bachardy exhibited portraits made over the last 40 years depicting acclaimed artists from Southern California, including Peter Alexander, Larry Bell, Billy Al Bengston, Robert Irwin, Ed Moses, and Ed Ruscha at Craig Krull Gallery in conjunction with the Getty initiative Pacific Standard Time.

Notable examples include the proliferation of mega-churches, the growth of denominations such as the Assemblies of God, the Latter-day Saints, and the Southern Baptists, and the post-World War II influence of three world-historical religious leaders: Martin Luther King Jr., Billy Graham, and Pope John Paul II.

* Billy Joe's story is analyzed in Professor John Howard's history of gays in Mississippi entitled Men Like That: A Queer Southern History as an archetype of what Howard calls the " gay suicide myth ".

Since his film debut in Billy Elliot, he has appeared as the disabled servant Smike in an adaptation of Nicholas Nickleby, a young soldier in Deathwatch, a teenager on the run in Undertow, a gun-toting pacifist in Dear Wendy, a disaffected Southern California teenager in The Chumscrubber, and the young Jimmy in the 2005 film version of King Kong.

Rainer left his post as Dean of the Billy Graham School of Evangelism of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary to assume the presidency of LifeWay.

Long Island, NY native Werthner cites musical influences including Red Hot Chili Peppers, Faith No More, New York hardcore, Southern Hip-Hop, Punk, Metal, Reggae, and songwriters like Billy Joel.

Southern League president Billy Hitchcock was on hand to witness the event, and Conway Twitty threw out the first pitch.

radio station with two other Billy Batsons, one from the Western United States and one from the Southern United States, to visit the " real " Billy.

Morgan, now billed as " Bigfoot ", and Boyd cut through the competition and won their fourth Southern Tag Team Championship when they beat Jeff Jarrett and Billy Joe Travis in the finals of a tournament.

While in Memphis Badd Company also won the CWA ’ s main tag team titles, the AWA Southern Tag Team Championship defeating Jeff Jarrett and Billy Joe Travis for the gold on August 8, 1987.

In 1909 " Billy " Milne learned of a small group of boys at the First Baptist Church in Barre, who were already members of the Boys Brigade, he offered them an alternative to their routine of marching and drills.

Mr. Milne (" Billy " to one and all who knew him ) started at once with his idea and by the latter part of the summer of 1909 had formed a troop of Boy Scouts with about a dozen boys from the Sunday School Class of the First Baptist Church, Barre, Vermont, Mr. James Grearson, teacher.

They attended the Metropolitan Memorial Methodist Church because it sponsored her daughters ' Brownie troop, occasional Baptist services with the Reverend Dr. Billy Graham, and Norman Vincent Peale's Marble Collegiate Church.

He also played John the Baptist in MGM's Technicolor epic King of Kings ( 1961 ) and was the villainous Claggart in Peter Ustinov's adaptation of Billy Budd ( 1962 ).

* Resurgence of evangelical Christianity including Youth for Christ ( 1943 ); the National Association of Evangelicals, the American Council of Christian Churches, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association ( 1950 ), Conservative Baptist Association of America ( 1947 ); and Campus Crusade for Christ ( 1951 ).

In 1957, Martha met Billy Louis Collins while attending a Baptist camp in Shelby County.

After endowing the Billy Graham Chair of Evangelism in 1966 ( the first such professorship in any Baptist seminary ), Southern expanded it in 1994 into the Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Church Growth.

On 2 January 1944 Shea began his ministry as a featured soloist on Billy Graham's Songs in the Night weekly radio program, which was broadcast live on Sunday evenings for 45 minutes from 10. 15pm from the basement of the Village ( Baptist ) Church at 4475 Wolf Road, Western Springs, Illinois pastored by Graham, and transmitted on radio station WCFL originating from Chicago, Illinois.

The reverend Billy Graham called him, " the greatest combination pastor, hymn writer, missionary statesman, an evangelist of our time ".

* Billy Sunday On-line Compiled by the pastor of King's Valley Chapel in Kingfield, Maine, this website contains Sunday sermons, images, audio, a biographical timeline, and an online bookstore.

Traditional Protestant pastors that air on TBN include: Dr. Charles Stanley, Franklin Graham, Billy Graham, Michael Youseff, David Jeremiah, and Robert Jeffress ( pastor ).

Pro basketball player Billy Mamaril and pastor and two-time presidential candidate Eddie Villanueva are also from the town, as are Lauro Delgado, a former veteran character actor of Premiere Productions in the early 1950s, ' 60s and late ' 70s.

* Billy Graham, evangelist, preached his first sermons as a licensed assistant / youth pastor at the Tampa Gospel Tabernacle of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in 1933-1937.

Harold J. Ockenga, notable theologian and co-architect of the ( Neo -) Evangelical movement was the senior pastor from 1936 to 1969, and during this time co-founded Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary with Billy Graham, co-founded Fuller Theological Seminary, the National Association of Evangelicals, War Relief ( which later became World Relief ), and the Christian publication Christianity Today.

Shea first met Billy Graham in 1940 while Graham was pastor of the Village Church in Western Springs, Illinois.