North Carolina couple learns about race relations and faith through Man From Macedonia

March 17, 2010 - When Dennis and Debbie Walsh first heard Aaron Johnson's story, they knew it had to become a book. Johnson had met the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., participated in lunch-counter sit-ins and later became a pastor who worked in prisons.

“I thought there was so much drama in his life it would make a good book,” Dennis noted. “Debbie said, ‘We can't write a book,’ and I said, ‘No but we can make it happen.’” Thus, the couple began an undertaking that would take them on a book-publishing journey, which included hiring a writer, editing, distributing and promoting Johnson's memoir, Man from Macedonia: My Life of Service, Struggle, Faith and Hope. 

The writer of Johnson's story, Deb Cleveland, was a friend of Dennis' from his former church in Oshkosh, Wis. She had written a weekly column for five daily newspapers for 17 years, been published in several magazines and authored one other book.

Click here to read the full article in The Jamestown News. 
Click here to watch a short video about Aaron Johnson's life. 

   About the book: 

In telling his life story, the Rev. Aaron Johnson takes us to the front lines of the fight for civil and human rights in our country over the last fifty years. Whether being beaten and dragged from a dime store lunch counter, standing blindfolded before a Ku Klux Klan meeting, or praying arm-in-arm with a death-row inmate, Johnson shows us how human hatred and fear smells, sounds and feels — and how it feels to empower others with hope and trust.

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