Billy Graham accepted the 2006 George Bush Award for Excellence in Public Service last Monday for his 60-plus years in his calling of 'helping people look beyond this world and onto the next'.
The prolific evangelist, who Bush Sr. described as "America's Pastor", joins former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger among those honored in previous years.
As one of the most admired people in America, Graham has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1983) and the Congressional Gold Medal (1996), but he called the Bush award "the greatest honor" he ever had.
The extraordinary life and ministry of the 87-year old evangelist is being made into a 1-hour TV documentary called Billy Graham: God's Ambassador. It's slated to be released during this Easter Sunday. If you know if it will be showing on Astro or anywhere else, please share by leaving a comment below.
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