PEEMHSS—
in Hollywood. A fancy-roping cow boy was in demand for the rash of Westerns the studios were turning out during that era. Later he be came assistant cameraman at Para mount, a job he held for more than three years. It was during this time that he became active in the young people’s group at the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood. One Sunday while greeting visitors at the door he met Frances Keables, a young girl who had just arrived from Newton, la. Frances got a job as secretary at the church and three years later she and Leonard were married. It wasn’t long before he felt God was calling him into full time Christian work so he quit his job at Paramount and enrolled in a local Bible institute where he grad uated in 1930. The depression was in full swing and after a year or two in boys’ work he was still un able to go out as a missionary or find a church. His old job as cam eraman at Paramount was open but he was sure the Lord hadn’t permitted all his training for noth ing. The only door left open was evangelism. And from the begin ning God has used his ropes and his harmonica and his guitar to present the claims of Jesus Christ.
Eilers and wife Frances in their San Fernando Valley ranch home. Their son is a jet pilot; daughter a college music student. Eilers is active in the Hollywood Christian Group and was instrumental in conversion of Western song writer Tim Spencer.
Eilers has used his ropes and Western music to preach the gospel across the nation ( and into Europe) for the past 25 years. Here he?s with a group of youngsters who turned out to hear him one Saturday in Brooklyn.
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