Cliff Barrows

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Cliff "Burton" Barrows (born April 6, 1923 in Ceres (California) , † November 15, 2016 in Charlotte (North Carolina) ) was an American musician and evangelical minister.

Life

Barrows grew up in California . He graduated from Bob Jones University . His main subjects included not only church music and the drama of William Shakespeare . After graduating in 1944, he was ordained a Baptist church pastor and initially worked for three years for the evangelical organization Youth for Christ . He then worked in various positions and functions for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association , including as a choir director and musical director. Barrows was next to Billy Graham ,George Beverly Shea and Grady Wilson one of the people who committed themselves to a voluntary code of conduct , the so-called Modesto Manifesto , as a principle of their work. In 1988 Barrows was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karen Garloch, Tim Funk: Cliff Barrows, longtime associate of Billy Graham, dies at 93 , in: The Charlotte Observer, November 15, 2016, accessed November 18, 2016.
  2. ↑ Randall Herbert Balmer: Barrows, Cliff (Burton) (1923-) . In: Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism . Baylor University Press, Waco 2004, ISBN 1-932792-04-X , pp. 59 (English).
  3. ^ Randall Herbert Balmer: Modesto Manifesto . In: Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism . Baylor University Press, Waco 2004, ISBN 1-932792-04-X , pp. 462 (English).
  4. ↑ Cliff Barrows. Gospel Music Association, archived from the original on February 4, 2013 ; accessed on February 4, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Barrows, Cliff
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barrows, Cliff Burton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American gospel musician, evangelical minister
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Ceres (California)
DATE OF DEATH 15th November 2016
Place of death Charlotte, North Carolina