In a world of no-fault divorce, and a shameful fifty percent divorce rate within the professing Evangelical Church itself, it is crucial that we remember the success stories. This week Ed and Nancy Hill will celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary. For seventy years, this bright and chipper couple have walked together, held hands, and loved one another. Seventy years!

Ed and Nancy Hill met at Brackenridge High School (not too far from Vision Forum headquarters) in San Antonio in 1929. She was a sixteen year old sophomore and he was a 17 year old junior. They were in the same home room class. Upon graduation, he was offered a college basketball scholarship but turned it down because it was the Great Depression. He started selling Hoover Sweepers door-to-door. They got married on August 29, 1934 at the age of 20 & 21, respectively. Ed started working at Kelly Air Force Base on May 10, 1938. He was the highest ranking civilian worker upon his retirement on May 10, 1968.

Together, Ed and Nancy have lived through 14 presidents (Franklin D. Roosevelt was president at that time of their marriage.), the Great Depression, the Second World War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and much more. When they were married a loaf of bread cost 11 cents, the two of them have each been eligible to vote a total of 19 times. They got married when George Bush, Sr. was only 10 years old. Together they lived through the invention of television, man walking on the moon, and the computer revolution.

Oh what stories they could tell us, if only we would ask.

God bless you, Ed and Nancy. Thanks for being an example.