Facing the Future with Faith
Facing the Future with Faith Being involved in Campus Crusade for Christ (CRU) during my college years, the testimony of a member of our church, Ella Layer, caught my attention one Sunday morning. After graduating from Marquette University in Wisconsin, Ella will be interning with CRU for one year on a university campus in Bangkok, Thailand. CRU began under the leadership of Bill and Vonette Bright in 1951 on the UCLA campus, and is now an international organization. The connection that we shared with CRU prompted me to arrange an interview with Ella a few days later. Because her father’s job required traveling, Ella and her family lived abroad for many years. With about half of her life spent in Asia, she credits her relationship with God starting during high school at the Shanghai-American International School in China. Even though she had grown up attending church in Michigan, it was when Ella and her family went on a week-long outreach to the Philippines that she firs...
