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The call came at 4 a.m., India time. Evangelist Franklin Graham, in the country for a crusade, jumped out of bed and answered his vibrating iPhone.
It was Michael W. Smith, the contemporary Christian singer-songwriter, calling from Nashville, with an idea: Franklin, he said, I’m producing a song for Haiti and want some of the proceeds to go to Samaritan’s Purse.
That would be the Boone-based Christian relief agency headed by Graham and one of the first charities to reach Haiti after the Jan. 12 earthquake.
