1957 saw three unknown young students take a step of faith that would have consequences beyond their wildest dreams.
50 years have passed since George Verwer, Dale Rhoton and Walter Borchard, then still in their teens, drove down Route 66 from Chicago towards Mexico City in a beat-up 1949 Dodge truck filled with Spanish gospels and tracts. This was the beginning of what was to become Operation Mobilisation (OM). An unlikely spiritual revolution had started.
George had learned that ‘south of the border, in Mexico, over 70% of the people had not one portion of the Scriptures’. On reading this, he felt ‘that God wanted me to dedicate my summers to distributing gospels there instead of the United States’. Always a team-builder, he immediately presented the challenge to Dale and, as he put it, ‘We bowed in prayer to commit the entire matter to the Lord’.
