(RNS) — It’s long been said that the late evangelist Billy Graham called his daughter Anne Graham Lotz the “best preacher in the family.”
Now, Lotz has begun passing along her family’s legacy of preaching and teaching to one of her two daughters, Rachel-Ruth Lotz Wright.
“I present the gospel and will give an invitation, but I feel like Rachel-Ruth has more of a gift of evangelism than I do,” Lotz told RNS in an interview last week. “She’s incredible the way she can present the gospel and bring people to that point of repentance and where they want to claim Jesus as their savior and Lord.”
Lotz, 77, is the president of AnGel Ministries in Raleigh, North Carolina, while Wright, 51, is vice president. Through the ministry, Wright leads an online weekly Bible study that reaches thousands via the internet in more than 125 countries.
And in November, Wright will be the main seminar speaker at the Christian conference center named for her grandfather, the Billy Graham Training Center at the Cove, across the state in Asheville. It’s a role Lotz has typically held.
“She has the same calling that I do,” Lotz said of Wright. “You …