Mary Jeanne and her husband Paul met in the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship group at Stanford University. Though they became engaged shortly before graduation, the wedding was delayed for 3½ years as Mary Jeanne went to New York to attend Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. The following year, Paul matriculated at Gordon-Conwell Seminary. They came to know the roads between Massachusetts and New York well as they visited over weekends. They married before their final year of school as Mary Jeanne took elective courses in New England. After graduation, they moved to the Los Angeles area where Mary Jeanne had residency training in Internal Medicine at LA County Harbor General Hospital, while Paul served with InterVarsity. in 1980, they went to Taiwan as missionaries with OMF, the former China Inland Mission. Their daughter Gail was born there in 1983.
