“People are searching for happiness,” Franklin Graham preached at the Sept. 14 Noi Festival in Naples, Italy. “Marriage, sex, drugs ... but it’s not satisfying and you’re here tonight and there’s an emptiness. There’s a vacuum inside of you that can only be filled by Almighty God.”
More than 100 buses brought Italians to the Piazza del Plebiscito, one of the largest squares in the country, to attend the Noi Festival with Franklin Graham.
Crowds lined up early outside Piazza del Plebiscito for the opportunity to hear music from Christian artists and a powerful message of hope.
Dennis Agajanian began the night with some high-energy music to excite the crowd and lift up the Name of Jesus.
Latin Grammy winner and author Christine D’Clario, who travels around the world carrying the message of hope and God's love in many languages, led the massive crowd in worshipping God in song.
Dove award–winning musician Charity Gayle told the 21,000 in Naples: “Jesus is our firm foundation, the solid rock on which we stand. We know He has never changed and never will.”
The Tommy Coomes Band, pictured just behind a sign language interpreter, sets the stage for Franklin Graham’s message with the song "My Hope Is in the Lord."
Naples’ Piazza del Plebiscito was packed with more than 21,000 people on Saturday night. Many walking by the vast square stopped to listen to the music and Gospel message from Franklin Graham.
“You have to make a choice. Will you come to Christ tonight? Will you trust Him by faith?” Franklin Graham asked the crowd. Those who responded and surrendered their lives to Jesus Christ were given an Italian Bible to help them grow in their faith.
“There’s many of you tonight, I believe, that the battle for your soul is taking place right now,” Graham said. Many people in the audience put their faith and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ and talked to prayer counselors about their decision.
A group of young men pray after Saturday night’s invitation. “Maybe some of you here tonight,” the evangelist said, “have wasted your life and you have nothing to show for it and you have been running from God.”
The Noi Festival was streamed live online, and more than 5,000 watched from around the world. Franklin’s son Will Graham ended the stream with an invitation to the online audience to do what many in the Piazza del Plebiscito had just done: begin a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
Will you pray for all the new believers in southern Italy to connect with a local Bible-believing church and grow in their faith in Jesus Christ?
