Reverend Frank Dew was born in Raleigh, NC and grew up in Lumberton, in the southeastern part of the state. As a White person growing up during the Jim Crow era, he witnessed first-hand the cruelties meted out to people of color, and never forgot the fact that movie theatres in Lumberton had three entrances: one for Blacks, one for Whites and one for Lumbee Indians. Dew knew from early on that he was a committed Christian and was determined to devote his life for the betterment of his fellow man. After graduating from Wake Forest University in 1973 Dew attended Duke Divinity School, finishing his degree in 1976. From that point on Frank has been a Presbyterian minister serving various churches in the Greensboro area. Over the years Dew has been involved as a leader and member of numerous groups seeking to better the community. He has been an associate pastor and leader at the Urban Ministry, which helps poor and indigent people with food, shelter and medical care. In 1980 Dew became a member of the Human Relations Commission, partially as a response to the 1979 Greensboro Massacre. (Please see interviews with Signe Waller Foxworth, Willena Cannon and Lewis Pitts in regards to the Massacre.) In 1985 Reverend Dew founded the New Creation Community Church, a small but vibrant community harkening back to earlier times (including Sunday dinners with folks from the Urban Ministry) which continues to this day. In 1987 Reverend Dew was one of the founders of Habitat for Humanity in Greensboro, which since that time has built over 100 homes. Dew also was instrumental in the founding of Mary's House, an institution devoted to helping women who are dealing with drug abuse issues (one of the first of its kind in the country.) A member of the Family Life Council, Dew is also active in People of Faith Against the Death Penalty, and is grateful for the fact that no one has been executed in North Carolina for the last 15 years. Author of the book Improving Our Acoustics for Hearing the Bible, Reverend Dew looks to the intersections of needs: food, shelter, health care, education, a living wage, all part of the larger struggle for human and civil rights. He is both optimistic and a person of deep, unshakeable faith. He has devoted his life and amazing energies to the common good, and we are thankful for it.