Anne Graham Lotz

Anne Morrow Graham Lotz (born May 21, 1948) is an American evangelist. She is the second daughter of evangelist Billy Graham and his wife Ruth Graham. She founded AnGeL Ministries, and is the author of 11 books, of which her best known is Just Give Me Jesus.

Early life Lotz was born Anne Morrow Graham, in 1948 in Asheville, North Carolina. Lotz is the second of the five children born to Billy and Ruth Graham. The Graham Family had settled near Ruth's parents in Montreat in what remains today as the Graham Family Home, Little Piney Cove.

Ruth was often the single parent for months at a time to the five Graham children. Of her upbringing, Lotz says, "[My father] was away almost full time. I was raised pretty much by single parents and grandparents, and then I didn't know any different."

Lotz became a Christian at the age of about eight years old after watching The King of Kings, a Cecil B. DeMille film, on Good Friday.

Anne Graham graduated from high school and shortly thereafter, married Dr. Daniel Lotz on September 9, 1966, at the age of 18. The young couple lived in Raleigh, North Carolina, where Dr. Lotz was beginning his dental practice. She had her first child at the age of 20, with two more in the three years that followed, and she did not work outside her home. Lotz says this was a hard time in her life saying: “Early in my marriage, I felt like I drifted from God just because I was busy – you know, small children, small house, all the business of being a housewife. But I sought God through the Scripture. That’s when I got into the Bible myself.”

Early ministry: Bible Study Fellowship

In 1975, Lotz heard about Bible Study Fellowship (BSF), a Bible class for women that used a highly structured study method, and wanted a class to be offered in her hometown of Raleigh. She waited for a year for someone else to teach the class, but when no one else did, she decided to teach the class herself. Lotz continued to teach the weekly class for 12 years. She also wrote The Vision of His Glory, God's Story, and My Heart's Cry. Other published works include Heaven: My Father’s House, Daily Light, Why?: Trusting God When You Don’t Understand, The Joy of My Heart, My Jesus Is…Everything, I Saw the Lord, and Life is Just Better…with Jesus.

Awards Lotz has been awarded four Gold Medallion Book Awards from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association for excellence in Christian publications:

The Vision of His Glory (1997) God’s Story (1998) Just Give Me Jesus (2001) My Heart’s Cry (2003)

Controversy She controversially stated that the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States were God's punishment on the country for transgenderism, evolution, and secularism.