Calling

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The three entrances always bothered a young Frank Dew. In downtown Lumberton a small city in eastern North Carolina the Carolina Theater had a door for whites a door for Blacks and a door for members of Lumbee Tribe. Instead of looking away and moving on Frank looked within. He wanted to find a way - some way - to right what he thought was wrong. He has.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Calling: A Memoir of Ministry is Frank's story. It unveils how a middle-class kid nicknamed Buzzard blazed a trail less traveled. He became a Presbyterian minister and renown social justice warrior in North Carolina and along the way he ran into small moments that opened his eyes to possibilities he never imagined. Like in the narthex of his home church. Frank was a junior at Wake Forest when he ran into a senior at Lumberton High he didn't know. She walked up to him and asked You go to Wake right? Tell me about Wake Forest.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>That moment changed Frank's life. He later married Michie Harriss and together they shared a life geared to help as Frank likes to say the least the last and the left out. They were like two pieces of a puzzle. They fit.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>After a half-century in ministry Frank continues to impact North Carolinians. In the gentlest of ways he helps us understand the difference between </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)><em>believing</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> in Jesus and </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)><em>following</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> Jesus.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The Rev. Frank Dew does know the difference. That's his life. That's his book.</span></p>