Hugh shares his first involvement with Campus Crusade for Christ:
I’d grown up in a Christian home and made a childhood profession of faith at 7 years old. Through my teen years, I became aware of the need for a further commitment but was somewhat resistant to that. The idea of becoming straight-laced sober and sad wasn’t all that appealing, and I had the attitude that if got into a life and death situation I would just yell out “God save me!” at the last second.
In 1965, I was at some Billy Graham meetings. He made the point that you can’t come unless God draws you, and if God is speaking to you now, you better come. I responded to that invitation and joined a youth group. I started asking the question “What happens next?” and a friend’s dad gave me the four spiritual laws booklet and showed me how to use it to share my faith. We were planning some more meetings for the youth group when we heard that some people from Campus Crusade for Christ were at the University of British Columbia. Sure enough, Bob Horner and Jim Holt had come up from the Oregon to start working on the UBC campus in 1965.
We invited them to come along to our youth group on a Sunday evening to tell us how to share the four laws. They came and told us a whole bunch of stories about people coming to faith and then invited us to come out to their training sessions on Sunday afternoon at Marine View chapel. We went to those training sessions, took National Collegiate Religious surveys, and went on to take an advanced course on how to be filled with the Holy Spirit. That was my first involvement with Campus Crusade for Christ.
