Frank and Hazel take a trip to Australia even though they can’t afford it again but then suddenly Frank starts travelling the world and is amazed at how many new kinds of people there are to be judged.  Frank learns that demons are a thing and basically is disgusted by every other culture apart from his own until he gets home and doesn’t want to settle.  He gets invited and then uninvited from a youth conference but Hazel doesn’t quite say why.  Frank cries a lot.

Frank and Hazel move somewhere else to start again. This time it’s south and Frank starts moving and shaking straight away.  Ray writes a helpful letter and Frank moves forward in faith, using only the ’bank of heaven’ as backup. He also helps the church understand that voting is NOT the way to elect a church board.  Divorce becomes a brand new way to judge people.

Ray refuses to return from Canada and so Frank is left to cough up some healing gifts and grow some church.  He decides to prey upon the local Maori people who are initially suspicious, but inevitably overcome by Frank‘s sale of the gospel and every single indigenous person signs up to the AoG.  Frank and Ray exchange letters declaring their love for each other and church growth, seeming to forget that they used to ride kids‘ mechanical toys at the shopping centre not long ago.   The Holy...

Frank and Ray are determined to win the spiritual war with the Maori people and show them the truth.  Hazel is skeptical, ‘as usual‘ but is forced into being a Pentecostal during a tent meeting.  Ray believes Frank is ready and prays for a double portion for him before he nicks off to Canada for some reason.

Frank and Ray continue their adventures together.  Hazel is skeptical, but Frank and Ray master all 9 gifts of the Spirit after they read a book from America and go out practising them in the general public‘s viewing.  Ray hits a medical issue, but is assured that ‘God does not amputate legs‘.  After Frank brings a glass of water to Ray, calling it the greatest moment of his life, even Ray knows it‘s time for things to cool down and for prince Frank to get his own kingdom.

Frank hangs out with the boys and they talk about the Holy Spirit.  Frank and Ray grow closer and pray together.  Hazel is skeptical about this movement but says she‘ll ‘try anything in a desperate moment‘.  It affects her so much she even reads the Bible instead of the usual women‘s magazines.  ”A new life had begun for both of us.” There was still the matter of needing new shoes.  Everyone notices the holes in Frank‘s shoes. Then they arrived as a ‘gift from God‘.  Sometimes talking...

Frank is sick and/or depressed.  People accuse the couple of stealing from the Salvos Frank meets preachers that he instantly falls for.  Hazel can‘t believe how one man can be so dreary all the time and yet persist.  God tells Hazel to shut up.

Frank is up to his old hijinx again, only this time with Alex Bryson from next door.  Then, he meets a lassie who never planned to marry.. and they arrange an understanding...  You‘ll laugh, you‘ll cry but you can‘t help Being Frank

Yet Annie and Frank Sr, his doting parents managed to win some prayers from a visiting Baptist, and overlooking his denomination with unforeseen grace, they allowed him to pray for little Frank, and, the child lived.  But Frank Sr was a man of steel and anger.  And what of school for young Houston?  In chapter 2 we learn of Frank‘s friend Francis Howard, and the inevitable voice of the Lord

BEING FRANK Chapter 1 One day, a young Salvation Army Captain‘s wife, Hazel can‘t find her husband, Frank.  He went to post some letters and disappeared, right when Colonel Bethe turned up with some serious questions for about the money.  Hazel doesn‘t know what to do, after the last breakdown Frank had had.  Reading Hillsong presents, The End of the Beginning, Chapter One of Being Frank

For over 40 years, the Houston Hillsong family have been publishing books and selling them to their willing congregations as spiritual guides. Or, you know, giving them away by the thousands so that they could join a bestseller list. We read those books, we absorbed every word, and they have become our texts. We the cultural Pentecostals and Hillsong alumni view these works as ours, as mere communications between the family members we were told we were, loved forever and part of the...