Strength for Service found a champion in an Eagle Scout from Orange County, Calif. Evan Hunsberger came across a worn, dog-eared copy of a devotional his grandfather had carried as a World War II Navy Corpsman. First published in 1942, one million copies of Strength for Service were distributed to armed services personnel in World War II and the Korean conflict. After the mid-century’s major conflicts came to a close and armed service personnel returned from the front, the beloved devotional went out of print. In 1999, the younger Hunsberger undertook a three-year labor of love to update the book, which contained writings from some of the leading pastors, theologians and commentators of the time, adding  40 new daily devotions from contemporary religious leaders. Hunsberger’s Eagle Scout project culminated successfully in the official republishing of Strength for Service to God and Country in 2002 by Providence Publishing Corporation in Nashville, Tenn. The ecumenical book is now published by Abingdon Press, an imprint of United Methodist Publishing House.