We first met Jim in a small venue at Central Christian Church in San Jose. He was introducing his VHS tape series. The tapes were called the “Focus on the Family Film Series”—a seven-part set of his live family-seminar talks. The seminars were filmed March 26, 1977 at Trinity University (San Antonio) and rolled out to churches as a film series in 1978. That was the beginning. We took our granddaughter to the FOF campus, and she was just in time to take a role in a radio play that FOF would broadcast. Wow! A few years later we visited the Family Talk location, also in Colorado Springs. They were still fleshing out that new facility, but they were operational. We had an excellent tour and met several staff members. We would have met Jim for the 2nd time, but he had been asked, along with others in a White House council, to be there with the president. So we knew him before FOF, and supported him there and at Family Talk as we were able. A wonderful ministry, a journey completed, and you have heard the “well done!” that we all want to hear – by your example of being effective, and then refusing to retire, and being effective again. Your dad stayed in ministry to a point you always wanted to achieve. It surely looks as if you did that. It wasn’t our first visit to Colorado Springs – we had been visiting there annually for about 30 years.

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3. We first met Jim in a small venue at Central Christian Church in San Jose. He was introducing his VHS tape series. The tapes were called the “Focus on the Family Film Series”—a seven-part set of his live family-seminar talks. The seminars were filmed March 26, 1977 at Trinity University (San Antonio) and rolled out to churches as a film series in 1978. That was the beginning. We took our granddaughter to the FOF campus, and she was just in time to take a role in a radio play that FOF would broadcast. Wow! A few years later we visited the Family Talk location, also in Colorado Springs. They were still fleshing out that new facility, but they were operational. We had an excellent tour and met several staff members. We would have met Jim for the 2nd time, but he had been asked, along with others in a White House council, to be there with the president. So we knew him before FOF, and supported him there and at Family Talk as we were able. A wonderful ministry, a journey completed, and you have heard the “well done!” that we all want to hear – by your example of being effective, and then refusing to retire, and being effective again. Your dad stayed in ministry to a point you always wanted to achieve. It surely looks as if you did that. It wasn’t our first visit to Colorado Springs – we had been visiting there annually for about 30 years.