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Full name |
Charles Arthur Riggs |
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Birth |
October 4, 1916 in Olean, New York, USA |
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Death |
July 21, 2008 in Canon City, Colorado |
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Family |
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Parents |
Orma James and Louise F. (Schultz) Riggs |
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Marital Status |
Married Alice LaRue Bogue in 1948 |
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Children |
Charles Daniel, James, Robert James, Loretta Lou |
Conversion |
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Education |
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1949-1951 |
Seattle Pacific College, Seattle, Washington, USA |
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1951-1953 |
Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas, USA |
Career |
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| 1937-1942 | Worked in the oil fields of Pennsylnaia and elsewhere. | |
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1942-1946 |
Served in the United State Army |
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1946-1954 |
Worked on the staff of the Navigators evangelistic organization. (He had begun working with the Navigators on a volunteer basis in the Army) He started as director of the orgnization Northwest district, based in Seattle, Washington. In 1952 he became part of the Navigator team that worked with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. The Navigatos developed and implemented for the BGEA a program for involving local church in BGEA evangelistic campaigns by training counselors from the laity and planning a campaign follow-up program to work with new converts. |
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1954- |
Joined the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association as one of the teachers of counseling and follow-up, became director of director of counseling and follow-up, and then also served as the crusade director for many meetings, including the 1957 New York City campaign. He taught counseling and follow-up classes to many tens of thousands laypeople, minister and Christian workers all over the world, including at American and international Schools of Evangelism, sponsored by the BGEA |
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In later years was often a volunteer counselor on visits to prisons organized by Prison Fellowship |