Mordecai Ham
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Oct 21, 2026
Lance WallnauHOST
Kenneth Hagin even got direction for his ministry when he was in Houston.
Lance WallnauHOST
Demetri Karin was here and got a catalytic impartation from Mordecai Ham, who met with him, who led Billy Graham to the Lord, and met with him and told him his prophetic destiny with Full Gospel Businessmen.
Lance WallnauHOST
And, you know, I'm hearing the Lord say something because I was going to advertise my meeting here.
Lance WallnauHOST
I'm glad to see a full service.
Chris TomsGUEST
But the story doesn't stop there because D.L. Moody, one of the people in which he helped lead to Jesus, was someone called J. Wilbur Chapman in the 1870s, who also then became a global evangelist.
Chris TomsGUEST
Then in 1886, he led Billy Sunday, baseball player, to faith, who then led Mordecai Ham, a young Kentuckian, to Jesus.
Chris TomsGUEST
And this is where it might become a little bit more familiar.
Chris TomsGUEST
Who in 1934 brought a young man to a conference.
Terry GwaltneyHOST
And Billy was just in the barn working, wasn't even participating.
Terry GwaltneyHOST
Little did they know six months later that these businessmen that would pay for Mordecai Ham to come in and do 11 week revival, that this guy would, become a convert and would go on later.
Terry GwaltneyHOST
So this guy goes on 20 years later, 25 years later, ends up being on the board with Billy Graham, chairs one of his local campaigns.
Terry GwaltneyHOST
Just a business guy who prayed a simple prayer that if you had looked at the first decade of his life, he looks like a guy that couldn't hold a job down.
John SpencerHOST
A lot of folks know Dwight L. Moody, Edward Kimball, a young Sunday school teacher who led Dwight L. Moody to Jesus, not as famous.
John SpencerHOST
Most of us have heard of Billy Graham, but a lot of us don't know Mordecai Ham, who introduced Billy Graham to Jesus.
John SpencerHOST
I think that Andrew is a really good example for us.
John SpencerHOST
Because our job is not to transform people into Christians or to make them feel guilty or convict them about their sins.
Ronnie ShirleyHOST
I haven't been aware.
Ronnie ShirleyHOST
Do you know the name of the man that brought Billy Graham to Christ? Mordecai Ham.
Ronnie ShirleyHOST
Nobody knows that name.
Ronnie ShirleyHOST
He was a great preacher.
Ronnie ShirleyHOST
But Mordecai Ham was holding a revival.
Ronnie ShirleyHOST
And the funny part about that was Billy Graham was working at a cattle farm and didn't have a driver's license.
Ronnie ShirleyHOST
He was 14 years
Amy ShirleyHOST
Get in the truck.
Sarah YardleyGUEST
The farmers went back to their fields.
Sarah YardleyGUEST
A couple weeks later, a preacher came to town with an extraordinary name, Mordecai Ham.
Sarah YardleyGUEST
[laughs] I mean, a fairly epic name for a preacher.
Sarah YardleyGUEST
I immediately have preacher jealousy.
Sarah YardleyGUEST
And Mordecai Ham set up a t- field tent and said, "Every single night of the week, six nights of the week, I will preach the gospel.
Sarah YardleyGUEST
I'll preach morning and evening.
Sarah YardleyGUEST
I'll see my area transformed for Jesus." And this teenager was invited to the field meetings and he said, "No, thank you." For weeks he was invited and rejected the invitation, invited and rejected the invitation, invited and rejected the invitation, until in his local school a moment of injustice happened, the equivalent of the Cornell University scandal of his day.
Sarah YardleyGUEST
And he said, "Well, they say that this preacher, this named after our favorite lunch meat, Mordecai Ham preacher, is a fighting preacher.