Debbie Reynolds recently stood in the entryway of the Greenwich Country Club luncheon room, surveying the scene of more than 300 people. The Wednesday noon event that filled the room to nearly standing room only was the 22nd annual Greenwich Bible Study (GBS) Luncheon, which featured two speakers who would prove to be motivating: Gretchen Carlson, a FOX News host, and Carla Harris, a dynamo Morgan Stanley Managing Director and gospel singer, named by Fortune Magazine as one of "The 50 Most Powerful Black Executives in Corporate America." "How thankful I was to be able to pass this event on to younger people -- two thirds of the crowd were 50 and under," she says. Over the years, as people learned about GBS, they were given the tools to start their own groups with their friends in their own homes. A friend in Los Angeles took her to a Community Bible Study group (a national organization of Bible study groups) where she saw a church "full of friendly, happy, lovely women." Instead of discussing a paragraph of scripture or a religious book, she says, I wanted to get people to understand the Bible as a whole. In that first year, Debbie formed a committee of a dozen or more people to help launch her Greenwich Bible Study group. To further grow GBS, she created an annual, high-profile GBS luncheon with inspirational speakers. Debbie wanted to engage more young people in GBS. [...] the third, she says is having helped launch a Catholic Bible study group. Looking across at the room filled with well-dressed young women, Harris had said of the 22nd GBS Luncheon, "That's a big deal," and again, "That's a big deal."