YOUNG LIFE continued the meetings, but did feel quite at ease because I knew I wouldn’t be high-pressured. It got so that the meetings were b y far the most attractive thing I could attend to hear leaders tell me things that I’d never heard before. I had never realized who Jesus Christ was. I had never heard about the cross and the story of salvation. Jim Rayburn spoke one night from the book o f John, and when Jesus said I had to be born again, I knew I had to be b om again. And right then and there I accepted the Lord Jesus Christ. I can think of four other fellows who were with me at the time, and now they are all going on with God — one in medical service in India, another one in col lege teaching a class o f Sunday school boys and an other going to seminary. These fellows are a real influence for Christ and as far as I know, none of us would have ever been touched for the Lord Jesus if we hadn’t come to Star Ranch and had the W ord opened to us.” Says another, now a basketball player at the Uni versity o f Washington, “ Up to the time I met Jesus Christ, I had been in a popularity race. Then I came to Star Ranch and met the Saviour. That is when life began— July 21, 1949. The riches o f Christ are unsearchable.” These are typical testimonies o f kids who would never have been reached through the ordinary means. Th ey would never have gone to a church, to a Sun day school, to a youth rally, or to an evangelistic meeting. Someone had to go out where they were and patiently teach them about a wonderful Saviour.
J f Mountain air puts a keener edge on already keen appetites; setting provides ideal place for quiet periods of Bible study.
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