Peggy Goertzen, her husband, Gaylord, and their four young children survived a serious car accident while visiting family in Bakersfield, Calif., on Christmas Eve in 1983. Peggy, a historian, writer and speaker, is the director and archivist for the Center for MB Studies at Tabor College, Hillsboro, Kan. She and Gaylord, who is retired, have served as the pastoral couple at churches in California, Oklahoma and Kansas. The Goertzens have 15 grandchildren.