music, and slide shows which "emphasized a Western context with titles such as 'God and the Rancher,' 'Trouble on the Range,' and 'Brand Inspection.'" His "happy, helpful, wholesome" and "absolutely unique" tour was dubbed a "Round-Up For God," with what he saw as "riding the range for God," or getting "into the saddle for God." Stops across California included King City's Community Baptist Church, Fullerton's First Baptist Church, Los Angeles's Atwater Park Baptist Church, Montebello's First Baptist Church, Ojai's Oak View Homes Baptist Church, Hermosa Beach Baptist Church, Oxnard's Presbyterian Church, Ventura's First Baptist Church, the First Baptist Church of Anaheim and Newhall's Presbyterian Church. Venturing beyond California, Eilers's stops ranged from the South Congregational Church in Centerville, Massachusetts; Bingen, Washington's Youth For Christ, Condon Baptist Church in Heppner, Oregon, and venues in Scottsdale, Arizona, Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Nampa, Idaho. In 1941, Eilers traveled 25,000 miles bringing his evangelistic services to a variety of venues. In the first weeks of March 1942, he conducted 15+ series of speaking engagements alone, and had completed short engagements ministering over the radio and in elementary and high schools in ten Western states. Between 1941 and 1942, "developed from barren patch beside Aliso Creek," Eilers and his wife established the 10-to-11-acre Eilers Ranch in San Fernando, Los Angeles, California, a ministry they would go on to operate for approximately fifty years as a refuge for troubled or otherwise-in-need teenagers as well as foster children and foreign students; during World War II, it was also home to children "from homes where the father was fighting overseas and the mother went to work to help provide for the family." For two years, the Granada Hills Community Church met at the ranch; it was also a meeting place for Girl Scouts troops, including Granada Hills's first Girl Scouts troop. In total, the couple estimated that they had provided temporary housing to some 500 youth over the decades. While running his ministry, Eilers authored parables for publications such as The King's Business. In 1946, Eilers began hosting a worship group at his Granada Hills home which led to the establishment of the First Presbyterian Church of Granada Hills. In 1948, he attended an international conference about ministry to youth, and in the 1950s became involved with an organization of Christians in the film industry called the Hollywood Group whose focus was utilizing their film work to spread