In doing so, Graham formed a bridge between the itinerant preachers like Dwight Moody and Billy Sunday who once crisscrossed the country in search of lost souls and contemporary Christian pastors like Joel Osteen, Rick Warren and T.D. Jakes.
And then there were the Jews. Prophetic preachers like Dwight Moody announced that the return of the Jews to the Holy Land was the signal that biblical prophecy was being fulfilled. This was an old idea, but it had gained new potency in the itinerant Irish preacher John Nelson Darby (1800-1882) and
most Apocalypse-obsessed preachers have had a heart for the underprivileged: Dwight Moody a 19th-century evangelist and the spiritual grandfather of the Left Behind novels chronicling the end times founded a school for orphans, the children of slaves and other needy students. William Jennings
Little Britain Elementary School New Windsor NY 1967-1969, Bethel Manor Elementary School Hampton VA 1970-1971, Yorktown Elementary School Yorktown VA 1971-1972, Tabb Middle School Yorktown VA 1972-1973, Tabb Intermediate School Tabb VA 1972-1973