an effectual ministry during their lifetime, most people are converted between the ages of fourteen and twenty-five. The Lord converts some during adulthood, regardless of whether they are married or unmarried. This is particularly true in those localities where there has been no ministry, or an effectual ministry has been absent, but is now available for the first time, as we generally observe in the Acts of the Apostles. When one of two marriage partners is converted, and the other is not, the