CBS's Sunday Morning show December 21, 2008 reminded me of an event at the 1968 CE Seminar in Dallas. There was a piece on the show recalling our nation's Apollo 8 mission to orbit the moon. The seminar opened almost simultaneously with the orbiter's safe return to Earth on December 27.
Inspired by the mission, Walt Cabe, a student participant promoted sending a telegram to the astronauts signed by all 1,100 participants. The project was a success and in the photograph Walt is seen holding up the telegram which stretched far out into the audience.
1968. It was a heady year in the USA marked by the mission of Apollo 8. Iconic photographs of our big blue ball known as planet Earth appeared on magazine covers and on television. And, what believer would forget that as their space ship circled the moon on Christmas Eve, astronauts Frank Borman, James A. Lovell, and William A. Anders took turns reading the Genesis account of Creation. That was the same year that some 1,100 committed Christian students from college campuses across the USA, and a few from other countries, gathered in Dallas under the banner, "Say So," to be inspired and mobilized to carry the word of Christ to their part of the big blue ball.
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