Although Darwin is fairly quiet this time of year, the Graham Tour brought some buzz to the city with a free event at the Darwin Convention Centre. The capital of Australia’s Northern Territory, Darwin’s name is connected to the father of the theory of evolution, Charles Darwin. But after taking the stage, Franklin Graham assured the crowd
their lives weren’t created by happenstance.
It’s been 60 years since Billy Graham’s historic Australia Crusades of 1959. “Culture has changed, but I’m here to tell you God’s Word doesn’t change,” Franklin Graham said. Saturday began his six-city evangelistic Graham Tour around Australia, which will stop in many of the same cities where his father preached decades ago, ending with a two-day event in Sydney. Learn more about the Graham Tour.
Darwin has been nearly destroyed four times. There were the Japanese bombings of World War II and three powerful cyclones in the past century, most recently Cyclone Tracy on Christmas Eve 1974. The city of 140,000 in Australia’s remote Northern Territory knows how to rebuild. There’s construction everywhere and modern skyscrapers shaping the city’s expanding…