What motivates a Baptist pastor to provide AIDS education, a fitness center and other unconventional services.
Reverend Eric Williams has been at the forefront of AIDS outreach since 1991, when he held a funeral for an openly gay man after a colleague refused to do it. Today, he continues to focus his ministry on health as a way of helping his congregant achieve the "abundant life" he preaches about. Hear his story, beginning with a childhood in zipcode 64130.
- Rev. Eric Williams, pastor, Calvary Temple Baptist Church
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