Bill witnesses to his family, but only his brother, Ron, responds. Bill gets an early discharge, goes to Bible college and persuades Ron to go to the Christian high school attached to his college. Coming home during summer, he meets Shirley. As a missionary in Honduras, he gets amoebic dysentery and nearly dies. He goes into depression that school year. The next summer he reads a book that helps, and gives the book to other students, incurring the displeasure of school authorities. But he graduates, marries Shirley and pastors a church in Norfolk. Shirley fights breast cancer at the same time that Bill’s stepmother dies of cancer. After Roxie dies, Bill’s dad professes faith after hearing Ron preach. Both brothers now presidents of Christian colleges.