Vonnette Bright

Wow, last night I heard Vonnette Bright, the late Bill Bright's wife and co-founder of Campus Crusade. It was so amazing to hear her story.
She grew up in the same small town as Bill and even as early as 7th grade, Bill was in love with her. After they were engaged though, Bill's letters took on a different note. Vonnette said before he was very creative and cute in his writing to her, but now all his letters contained scripture from the bible and prayers and things of that nature, that was all over her head. She was very worried about him being involved with a group a fanaticists and went to where he was living to help save him from these strange people.
The only problem was, that Bill shared with her wha he now believed about God. Vonnette had never seen anyone with that much enthusiasm for God before, she grew up going to church and decided that these people were having too much fun for being Christians. and they really needed to tone it down a bit, God really wasn't THAT exciting. but Bill shared with her, about God's love, and how God really wants to know us personally and surrender our lives to him that we might have a full and abundant life. He said that if what he said was true about God, then you had to either truely believe it, or that it was all just loony. Well Vonnette decided to give her life over to Christ, but the story doesn't end there.
it's amazing how much has happened in the past 50 years. God used two people to start a ministry that reaches thousands of people all over the world. in over 190 different countries and 20,000 staff members.