Photo - Fred and Carol Schaeffer and family Fred Schaeffer writes - My hard drinking, shrewd father, thrust me into my own business at age nine as a paperboy in the violent streets of Chicago. I was soon immersed into a neighbourhood gang and began mastering fighting and gambling. Fortunately, I was plucked from the street scene by responding to Christ. Jesus, the truth, led me out of the ghetto. My “friends” wondered how I could make more money working than they could stealing and still attract a girlfriend, more lovely and loving than theirs. I married Carol 57 years ago, studied business, worked in advertising and then as a marketing manager. God blessed us with the birth of our son, Fred, and our daughter, Kysa.