"[3] Olford was also a friend to pastors Charles Stanley and Adrian Rogers, as well as being influential in the life of Jim Elliot.
[4] He was a pioneer in Christian television programming with his show Encounter, in New York, and his Sunday morning sermons were also broadcast around the world on radio.
A crisis experience, involving a motorcycle accident, led to his call into the ministry.
He launched a Young Peoples Christian fellowship in Newport, South Wales.
Olford was married for 56 years to the former Heather Brown; the couple had two sons, Jonathan and David.