The church that Bill Werlin attended as a child had no walls. "I grew up in the mountains. People would ask me where my church was and I would point out the window and say, 'right there,' " he says.
Werlin grew up in the tiny U.S. town of Georgetown, Colo., where, he recalls, "on a good Saturday night there would be 600 people in town."
The area sits at an elevation of 2,500 meters, and Werlin's family ran a ski area where he and his three siblings helped with everything from hauling garbage, chopping ice and patrolling the slopes to other various daily chores. It was a childhood he "wouldn't trade for the world."