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(Anne Graham Lotz)
 The
second of the Graham children, Anne also followed her parents'
steps into ministry. Born May 1948, she grew up sheltered
from the expectations of other people and the scrutiny of
the press. Although her father was quite often gone, the
family considered this normal, so Anne never resented his
absence. Since the family home was in such a remote place,
the siblings played with each other rather than other schoolchildren
until later in their childhood.
During
her teenage years Anne began to feel inferior and ill at
ease with other people. She began to feel the expectations
others had of "Billy Graham's daughter," and feeling
that her siblings were more gifted than she was, she felt
pressured to live up to a standard that others had set.
When she decided that God was the only one she had to please,
she began to feel more peaceful about her life.
She
married Dan Lotz when she was 18 and now has three grown
children. While she was a young mother, she began to desire
consistent Bible study and became involved in Bible Study
Fellowship. Her husband encouraged her to exercise her gift
of teaching, and after she taught for a while, she initiated
a Bible Study Fellowship in Raleigh, a class that immediately
had 500 attendees with a waiting list. As the class grew
and she received constant invitations to speak, Anne began
to sense that God was calling her to a life of itinerant
Bible teaching.
Following
the call, she established AnGel Ministries in 1988, taking
her initials, AGL, and adding letters to create the word
"angel." During that time accepted several speaking
engagements, among them Keswick, a Bible conference in England,
for which she was the first female plenary speaker, and
Amsterdam 2000, for which she was the only female plenary
speaker. She has delivered messages in every continent except
Antarctica, is an award-winning author of 3 books and serves
on the Board of Directors of the Billy Graham Evangelistic
Association.
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