Couple finds riches untold by serving the less fortunate
By Julie Wurth
Sunday August 19, 2007
Robin Scholz
John and Sylvia Ronsvalle have run Empty Tomb for 35 years in Champaign-Urbana.
They met at a campus bar called the Wigwam through a most unusual pickup line: How would you like to change the world in Jesus' name?
Sylvia Slivon was intrigued. The year was 1969. Anti-war protests were the norm, and political change was in the air.
The man who popped the question was graduate student John Ronsvalle, a thoughtful campus rabble-rouser who led the fight for student representation on the University of Illinois senate and board of trustees. He was also a Christian dedicated to fighting poverty locally and around the globe.
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