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Following the death of global evangelist Luis Palau last week at the age of 86, a special page for reflections has been instated on his official website, which has already attracted over 600 tributes. What was it about this humble servant of God that appealed to so many people across the globe?
Early days
Argentinian by birth, Luis Palau was born in in 1934, in a small town close to Buenos Aires. Influenced by his godly mother’s life of faith, Luis gave his life to Christ at a summer camp in 1947, at the age of 12. “You don’t have to have a jaw-dropping story of how you received Jesus. It just must be yours,” Palau later wrote in a memoir.
Palau began preaching on street corners as a teenager and was hosting his own Christian radio programme by the age of 19. A visiting Californian pastor and missionary leader by name of Ray Stedman began mentoring the young man, and invited him to the United States in 1960. It was while studying at Multnomah School of the Bible in Portland, Oregon, that Palau met his future wife, Patricia. Together they embarked on a life of miss
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With the ‘promotion to glory’ of Luis Palau, aged 86, another of a generation of pioneering preachers has left us. I had the privilege of knowing Luis and have always had the profoundest respect and affection for him, both as an individual and as a powerful proclaimer of the good news of Jesus.
Luis was born in Argentina in 1934 and came to faith through the work of a missionary at the age of twelve. From that moment on, he felt compelled to share Jesus with others. Encouraged and supported by Billy Graham (pictured, right), he developed a ministry as an evangelist and by the 1970s began to have a distinctive global impact. In the decades that followed, he criss-crossed the world, holding evangelistic events in 70 countries and preaching to countless numbers of people. Yet any evaluation of Luis’ ministry must go beyond statistics to his significance. Although he moved to the United States and set up a base in Oregon, Luis remained distinctly Argentinian.
The appearance of a South American evangelist with a worldwide ministry proved that evangelical Christianity was truly a
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Luis Palau
Argentine-American evangelist (1934–2021)
Luis Palau | |
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Palau speaking at an event in 2004 | |
| Born | (1934-11-27)November 27, 1934 Ingeniero Maschwitz, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Died | March 11, 2021(2021-03-11) (aged 86) Portland, Oregon, U.S. |
| Nationality | |
| Education | Multnomah Bible College |
| Occupation | Evangelist |
| Years active | 1960–2021 |
| Notable work | A Friendly Dialogue between an Atheist and a Christian Calling America and the Nations to Christ |
| Political party | Palau made a point of staying out of politics, refusing to endorse ballot measures or candidates. |
| Spouse | Patricia Palau (m. 1961) |
| Children | 4 |
| Website | palau.org |
Luis Palau Jr. (November 27, 1934 – March 11, 2021) was an Argentine-American international Christianevangelist. He was born in Argentina but moved to Portland, Oregon, in his mid-twenties to enroll in a graduate program in Biblical studies.
Palau had a long and close relationship with evangelist Billy Graham, and was characterized by many as Graham's suc
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