![]() ![]() "Tampa attracted, beginning in the early 20th century, a remarkable number of crusaders and evangelists," said University of South Florida historian Gary Mormino. ![]() Graham came not as an established preacher but as a skinny, 18-year-old student.Īnd, of course, nothing ever really changed." Most, like Billy Sunday, tended to end their sermons "with a summons to make Tampa more moral. He had spent an unhappy semester at Bob Jones College in Tennessee, which was more boot camp than seminary. Though Graham was interested in Bible study, he also liked sports, girls and sunshine. In January 1937, he transferred to the Florida Bible Institute, which occupied a Spanish-style former country club on the banks of the Hillsborough River in Temple Terrace.Ī day after arriving, Graham was pressed to take a group of visitors on a driving tour of Tampa during the height of Gasparilla, the city's raucous pirate invasion and parade. "Well, I had never heard of the Gasparilla and I'd never been to Tampa," Graham said in 1976. This page lists Vacation Bible Schools in the Brandon, Florida area. Family events, kids activities and parenting resources in the Tampa area. and moved to Tampa, Florida in August of 2000 to attend the River Bible Institute with Drs. This page lists Vacation Bible Schools in the Tampa, Florida area. After his tour, "those people never came back to Florida Bible Institute again. She attended Open Bible College in Des Moines, Iowa. (W.T.) Watson (the college's founder) lost some potential givers to the school."ĭuring his 3½ years in Hillsborough County, Graham ministered to the down-and-out at gospel missions on Franklin and Jefferson streets downtown, in West Tampa, at mobile home parks and in the city stockade. He apparently had little contact with the rough elements running Ybor City at the time, but they were there.īut Temple Terrace then was more rural than it is now, and little of Tampa's worldly problems reached the Florida Bible Institute's tree-covered campus. ![]()
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