NC evangelical minister, the grandson of Rev. Billy Graham, hospitalized with COVID

Jonathan Lotz, the grandson of Rev. Billy Graham, is hospitalized and in critical condition due to COVID-19, according to social media posts by his mother.

Anne Graham Lotz, the founder of AnGeL Ministries in Raleigh, said Sunday that her son is in the intensive care unit at an unidentified hospital. She asked for people to pray for her son’s recovery.

“Fifty years ago I could hold my son in my arms,” she said in a post Saturday. “Now I have placed him in the arms of Jesus.”

Saturday’s Facebook post has garnered over 54,000 reactions and 21,000 shares since Saturday.

Jonathan Lotz, an ordained minister, directs Jonathan Lotz Ministries and has preached around North Carolina and the country, according to his website. He spent time in Raleigh growing up, according to news reports.

Sunday at 6:35 p.m. Anne Graham Lotz updated her Facebook page with her son’s condition. She said he texted her earlier Sunday, saying he is “physically exhausted yet spiritually overflowing.”

“Pray he will not have to go on a ventilator, that his oxygen levels would increase, that his lungs will be strengthened, healed and that his health will be fully restored — with no long-term complications,” Anne Graham Lotz wrote. “My heart is filled with gratitude for your prayers.”