b'The History We Celebrate continuedNotesAn Association with Deep Roots continuedBy the late 1960s, a pop culture of sex, drugs, and rock and roll increasedthe addiction possibilities. It also increased the number of women in needWhat a wretched of services. The decade that followed saw the end of the Vietnam War withman I am! Who a plethora of homeless veterans coming to missions, many of whichopenly rejected traditional values and a Christian gospel. will rescue meNevertheless, rescue missions pressed on, ministering to the physicalfrom this body needsand now mental and emotional needsof people, and introducingthat is subjectthem to the message of the cross with its radical conversion power.to death?New Leaders, New Offices, Thanks be toGod, who delivers New Perspectiveme through Jesus A man with fifteen years of experience in rescue mission ministries,Christ our Lord! Rev. Emile Leger became executive secretary of the IUGM in May 1970. Following in the pattern of his predecessors, his wifeRomans 7:24-25 served as office manager. Under his leadership, in 1971, the associationpurchased and moved into its own headquartersa split-level house in Kansas City North, Missouri. The house was also to serve as aparsonage for the executive secretary. Emile, whose main contributionswere to bring dignity and stature to the office and unify the members to substantially support the IUGM, resigned in 1974.At the 1974 convention in Los Angeles, California, the delegates appointedRev. William L. Wooley as executive secretary. Bill, as he was affectionatelyknown, had served as superintendent of The Anchorage, a rescue missionin Albany, Georgia, and as both a president and later secretary-treasurer of the IUGM.At the 1984 convention in Huntsville, Alabama, Lloyd Olson of CampusCrusade for Christ (now Cru) was commissioned to1971 IUGM convention attendees10'