Anne Graham Lotz
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Anne Graham Lotz
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Anne Morrow Graham May 21, 1948 Montreat, North Carolina, United States |
| Residence | Montreat, North Carolina, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Evangelist, Author |
| Spouse(s) | Dr. Daniel Lotz (1966–2015, his death) |
| Children | Daniel Jonathan Lotz, Morrow Reitmeier, & Rachel-Ruth Wright |
| Parent(s) | Billy Graham, Ruth Bell Graham |
| Website | www |
Anne McCue Graham Lotz (born May 21, 1948) is an American Christian evangelist. She is the second daughter of evangelist Billy Graham and his wife Ruth Graham. She founded AnGeL Ministries, and is the author of 11 books, of which her best known is Just Give Me Jesus.
Lotz was born Anne McCue Graham, in 1948 in Montreat, North Carolina. Lotz is the second of the five children born to Billy and Ruth Graham. The Graham Family had settled near Ruth’s parents in Montreat in what remains today as the Graham Family Home, Little Piney Cove.
Ruth was often the single parent for months at a time to the five Graham children. Of her upbringing, Lotz says, “[My Father] was away almost full time. I was raised pretty much by single parents and grandparents, and then I didn’t know any different.”
Lotz accepted Christianity as her faith at the age of about eight years old after watching The King of Kings, a Cecil B. DeMille film.
Lotz graduated from high school and shortly thereafter, married Dr. Daniel Lotz on September 9, 1966 at the age of 18. The young couple lived in Raleigh, North Carolina where Dr. Lotz was beginning his dental practice. She had her first child at the age of 20, with two more in the three years that followed, and she did not work outside her home. Anne says this was a hard time in her life saying: “Early in my marriage, I felt like I drifted from God just because I was busy – you know, small children, small house, all the business of being a housewife. But I sought God through the Scripture. That’s when I got into the Bible myself.”
In 1975, Anne heard about Bible Study Fellowship, a Bible class for women that used a highly structured study method, and wanted a class to be offered in her hometown of Raleigh. She waited for a year for someone else to teach the class, but when no one else did, she decided to teach the class herself. The class immediately filled up with 500 people and had a waiting list. Anne continued to teach the weekly class for 12 years. During this time, she began to receive many speaking invitations and in 1988, Lotz left BSF for an itinerant teaching ministry.
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