The Strange Calling

What does it mean to be "called" to the ministry? At the age of fourteen, John Robert McFarland traded his life for his sister's. "Save her from death," he prayed to God, "and I'll be a minister." It wasn't what he wanted to do, but it was the only bargain he could think of that would get God's attention. For forty years, he worked to see if his "strange calling" was really to the "high calling," the ministry. That calling has taken him to Alabama to march with Martin Luther King, Jr., to t...