Billy Graham health condition news update 2016: Franklin Graham shares latest on father's health

Rev. Franklin Graham shared an update on matters of health and newfound ministry.of his father and famed Evangelist Billy Graham, who's almost 98 of age.

"When he was 90, he told all of us he was gonna live to 95," shared the junior Graham Wednesday, July 6 on the official website of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA), founded by and named after his father.

He continued, "When he approached 95, he moved the goalpost. He said, 'I'm now gonna live to be a hundred.' ... I hope he does."

In a letter addressed to friends and supporters of the association, the BGEA CEO shared that his 97-year-old father still resides in his own home, carefully mentioning that someone's always there to keep him company, and that his father lives with the "limitations typical of old age" which include poor eyesight, poor hearing, and being confined to a wheelchair.

Yet his father takes his meals at the kitchen table "as he has always done" and enjoys sitting on the front porch to enjoy the view or watch news on a "large-screen TV."

"His ministry now is praying, and he looks forward to reports of what God is doing around the world," revealed the son. "He always responds by saying "Praise the Lord" as he points upward."

The junior Graham, who embarked on a nationwide Decision America tour to rally Christians for this season's presidential elections, added a more whimsical anecdote of his father.

He said, "He doesn't think anybody remembers who he is," so he'll say, 'If you meet anybody who remembers me, tell 'em hello.'"

Another Evangelist leader who calls the elder Graham as her father is Anne Graham Lotz, founder of the AnGel Ministries.

While speaking to the crowd gathered during this year's "Watchmen on the Wall" conference, Lotz shared her belief that it's no accident that God keeps his aging father alive and kicking.

"God is not whimsical and he does everything intentionally," said Lotz. "The fact that my father is still here, God is holding him for a reason."