ASHEVILLE -- Sarah Palin is sitting down for Sunday dinner with the Rev. Billy Graham a day before a planned stop on her book tour in eastern North Carolina.
The former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee was scheduled to fly into
Asheville Sunday afternoon and then go to Billy Graham's mountaintop home in Montreat for dinner, said Jeremy Blume, a spokesman for Graham's son Franklin.
Franklin Graham issued the invitation to Palin.
"He just saw that she was going to be in the area and he said to come by," Blume said.
The elder Graham has never met Palin, who is scheduled to stop at Fort Bragg on Monday to promote her memoir, "Going Rogue: An American Life."
Franklin Graham got to know Palin early this year in Alaska. She accompanied him as Samaritan's Purse, a Boone-based international relief agency he heads, delivered 44,000 pounds of groceries to Alaskan families who had been hit by a harsh winter in villages along the frozen Yukon River.
Samaritan's Purse has an office in Alaska, and Franklin Graham owns a cabin in the state. Graham also leads the Charlotte-based Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, which his father founded decades ago.
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