David Garratt was born in 1938 in Wellington, New Zealand, the second of eleven children of Noel and Florence Garratt. He was raised in a family that loved God and followed him. Dale was born in 1939 in Auckland, New Zealand, one of two children of Rudolph and Florence Cvtanovic. David and Dale met in 1962, love at first sight, a coup de foudre. Well, not exactly a thunderbolt but at least enough electricity to keep this partnership of opposites alive and well over the years. David, it seems, has always been a Christian, while Dale at 20, came to faith in God, a solo Christian in her family until the aunt who raised her also became a Christian some years later at a Billy Graham crusade.