Each Festival or Celebration is organized as a ministry of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA), and a leadership team of local pastors and laypeople serves as the controlling body of the Festival or Celebration. This team works to coordinate the schedule of events, leads various working teams, raises Festival funds, and partners with BGEA in the ministry and outreach of the Festival or Celebration.
Since involvement and mobilization of local churches is critical to the success of the Festival or Celebration, each church is encouraged to form a local church leadership team—usually composed of four to six people—to mobilize men, women, students, and children.
With the help of the local church leadership team, a congregation can be mobilized through planning, information sharing, distribution of Festival or Celebration materials, and recruitment of volunteers for different areas of involvement. Local working teams and a Festival or Celebration director assigned by BGEA assist the local church leadership teams in their work, which extends over a few months’ time.