About The Author
"This is My Story"
by Billy James Hargis
I am a Minister of the gospel of Christ. I
was ordained by the Rose Hill Christian Church, Texarkana, Texas, May 30, 1943.
My church membership is still there. I served for a while as a Christian Church
evangelist. Also, I pastored three churches as a full-time minister—First
Christian Church, Sallisaw, Oklahoma; First Christian Church, Granby, Missouri;
and First Christian Church, Sapulpa, Oklahoma.
It was while pastor of the First Christian Church, Sapulpa,
Oklahoma, that I became aware of the threat of Communism internally. In the fall
of 1947, I organized Christian Crusade, as a Christian weapon against Communism
and its godless allies.
Christian Crusade publishes two periodicals—Christian
Crusade monthly magazine (36 pages) and Weekly Crusader (8-page
anti-Communist intelligence report). My daily broadcasts are carried by radio
stations across the nation. These programs are called "Christian
Crusade." Also we make available to television stations a Christian Crusade
television series and additional educational films produced by our movement. In
February every year we conduct an Annual Anti-Communist Leadership School
somewhere in America; in August each year we conduct an Annual Convention of
Christian crusade somewhere in America; during the summer months—June, July
and August—we conduct the Christian Crusade Anti-Communist Youth University at
the Summit Hotel, Manitou Springs, Colorado.
The is my fourth full-length book, the others being Communist
America…Must It Be? The Facts About Communism And Our Churches, and Communism,
The Total Lie. These books have enjoyed a combined printing of over 300,000.
I suppose I have spoken in as many anti-Communist rallies as
anyone. For seventeen years, we have been conducting Christian Crusade
Anti-Communist Rallies throughout the United States and the free world,
regularly.
My wife is the former Betty Jane Secrest of Portsmouth, Ohio.
We have four wonderful children—Bonnie Jane, Billy James II, Becky Jean, and
Brenda Jo. Betty Jane and I thank God daily for these four precious children
whose freedom and welfare mean so much to us.
That's about all I can say for myself. I am a minister doing
a minister's job. I thank God for the opportunity to influence people for
righteousness and truth.
—Billy James Hargis