Word: schaeffer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Protestant chapel blazed with candlelight, and an international congregation of young skiers assembled for an English-speaking service. At the altar was a U.S. Presbyterian minister who had returned for the occasion, after having been expelled from Champery 4½ years before for his "religious influence." The Rev. Francis Schaeffer's influence had consisted of providing a small Protestant oasis in the solid, stolid Roman Catholic bishopric of Valais. After serving at churches in St. Louis, Mo., Chester and Grove City, Pa., Philadelphia-born Presbyterian Schaeffer went to Champery in 1949 to help organize Sunday schools for continental Protestants...
...Schaeffer and his wife were told by the cantonal government that they must move out of the canton. At last they found a new headquarters 15 miles away: a 13-room chalet halfway up the winding mountain road above the Rhone Valley leading to the ski resort of Villars. Since their move, the Schaeffers have made the chalet one of the most unusual missions in the Western world...
Sandy-haired, sad-faced Francis Schaef fer, 47, and his handsome, mission-raised wife, Edith, 41, call their house L'Abri (shelter), and in the 4½ years they have been there, an "Abri Fellowship" has grown up to unite their former visitors and supporters. The Schaeffers depend on contributions; they accept no money from their church, and the young people who come are guests of L'Abri. For this reason, Missionary Schaeffer does not advertise. "There's no sense in turning this chalet into a free home for ski bums," he explains. News of the mission...
...Crutch for Kids. The Schaeffers' guests spend most of their weekends in discussion sessions led by Francis Schaef fer in the chalet's big living room (where he also conducts a brief Sunday morning service), with a hike for exercise. The talk may begin with any subject, from skiing to space flight; Presbyterian Schaef fer, Bible in hand, trades dialectic with the best of them, as the air grows blue with cigarette smoke. "We don't sell sweet religious pills in the discussions," he says. "What we give is the truth." Missionary Schaeffer's conception...