Pictured in this 1949 photo is from left to right, Cliff Barrows,
Billy Graham and George Beverly Shea.

Clifford Burton Barrows is the longtime music and program director for the
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. He has been a part of the Graham
organization since 1949. Barrows is best known as the host of Graham’s
weekly Hour of Decision radio program, and the song leader and choir
director for the crusade meetings. Barrows, who was ordained as a
Baptist minister in 1944, was born in Ceres, California.

“The Christian faith is a singing faith, and a good way to
express it and share it with others is in community singing.”