make a decision for Christ, despite the teacher’s initial scepticism. Olive developed clinical paranoia, which disrupted the Ford family, but Leighton continued at school, excelling both as a student and as an athlete. A service at Blue Water Bible Conference marked the beginning of Ford’s personal devotional life. After that meeting, his life seemed infused with a new spiritual vitality. The Canadian Youth Fellowship elected him president at the age of fourteen, and he met Billy Graham when he booked