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Greg and Mary Jane Grooms met at Francis Schaeffer's Swiss L'Abri in 1978 and married in 1980. Over the next 14 years they worked at L'Abris in Minnesota, Massachusetts, and back in Switzerland. During those years they had five children while teaching, counseling, and sharing hospitality with a constant stream of strangers who came looking for answers to life's big questions.

They knew after leaving L'Abri that they wanted to continue doing that work by living in a house adjacent to a college campus. They moved to Austin, Texas, in 1994 and worked with the Probe Center adjacent to the University of Texas campus, but they settled in a suburb of Austin from which Greg commuted each day to work at Probe. He provided Christian materials to students. Mary Jane worked as a librarian at a local Christian school.