Ken had already written two Christian novels — Deep Is The Furrow and The Doctor’s Return, before the weekend he came to my hometown to minister, and I still have the copies he autographed. He was the very first author and magazine editor I had ever met. And he was the first leader of the Youth for Christ movement I got to know.
Shortly after I was privileged to meet Ken, he went to China with Bob Pierce, taking a camera and a pen, and they produced a short documentary film called China Challenge. Ken followed up with a book titled This Way to the Harvest. Soon Ken Anderson was working with Christian film pioneer C.O.Baptista, where he wrote and directed his first film drama.
Encouraged by friends, in 1949 he moved to Muskegon, Michigan with his wife Doris, whom he had married in 1938. He launched Gospel Films in 1950, the same year Bob Pierce founded World Vision.
When I joined the staff of Youth for Christ Magazine in Wheaton, Illinois as director of advertising and circulation in 1960, Ken attended the monthly magazine staff meetings. We got reacquainted, and on occasion he stayed

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God Called Another of His Giants Home! A Tribute to KEN ANDERSON — December 23, 1917 – March 12, 2006 Christian Communicator Extraordinaire – The personification of 2 Timothy 4:5 “But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.” When she returned from Founders Week at Moody Bible Institute in February 1948, my Mother brought home my first copy of Youth for Christ Magazine. I was a junior in high school. Soon afterward, Ken Anderson, the editor of that magazine, was invited to come to Mt. Carmel, Illinois by my pastor, Charlie Pedersen, to speak at my home church the morning after he spoke at the forerunner of the monthly Youth for Christ rally I was to direct beginning December 1948 my senior year,		41 million 10-19 year-olds live in 3,141 USA counties. 408,434 10-19 year-olds live within 100 miles of TTT, in 93 Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky counties.
	Ken had already written two Christian novels — Deep Is The Furrow and The Doctor’s Return, before the weekend he came to my hometown to minister, and I still have the copies he autographed. He was the very first author and magazine editor I had ever met. And he was the first leader of the Youth for Christ movement I got to know. Shortly after I was privileged to meet Ken, he went to China with Bob Pierce, taking a camera and a pen, and they produced a short documentary film called China Challenge. Ken followed up with a book titled This Way to the Harvest. Soon Ken Anderson was working with Christian film pioneer C.O.Baptista, where he wrote and directed his first film drama. Encouraged by friends, in 1949 he moved to Muskegon, Michigan with his wife Doris, whom he had married in 1938. He launched Gospel Films in 1950, the same year Bob Pierce founded World Vision. When I joined the staff of Youth for Christ Magazine in Wheaton, Illinois as director of advertising and circulation in 1960, Ken attended the monthly magazine staff meetings. We got reacquainted, and on occasion he stayed Continued on Page 2	113,368 of these youth live in the 25 counties closest to TTT. For four decades, TTT Christian Youth Ministries has kept the doors open every Saturday evening for teenagers. Between Saturdays, George Dooms and TTT teams — full-time, part-time, and volunteer adults and students — have responded to the challenge to “Go out into the highways and hedges” to take the Gospel across the Tri-state and beyond.Thousands have accepted Jesus as Savior, and thousands more have decided to make Christ the Lord of their lives. The Vision: Every teenager to have the opportunity to hear the Gospel with an invitation to “believe on the Lord Jesus Christ” before turning 20 The Mission: Telling The TRUTH to/through Teenagers