Pedestal will be engraved with two verses from Gospel of John
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(CHRISTIAN POST) — The late evangelist Billy Graham will take his place next week among 200 Americans honored with a statue in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
Graham’s statue will be unveiled next Thursday during an 11 a.m. ceremony that will be attended by musician Michael W. Smith, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La. and other congressional representatives, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association announced.
The bronze sculpture, designed by an artist from Graham’s birthplace of Charlotte, North Carolina, will stand seven feet tall on a pedestal and depict him gesturing toward an open Bible in his hand as a symbol of his life’s work.
The pedestal will be engraved with John 3:16 and John 14:6, and Graham will be proclaimed as a “Preacher of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”
After the North Carolina General Assembly unanimously voted him the state’s “Favorite Son” in 2013, then-Gov. Pat McCrory signed House Bill 540 in 2015, which set in motion the Graham statue.
“There have been many great North Carolinians, but few have impacted the world more than Billy Graham,” the bill said.