Frank Julian
Rev. Frank Julian is a BSN prepared RN, retired after 40 years of experience. He has pastored for churches for close to 40 years.
He is known as a loving pastor with a pure heart for God. His love and caring for people merged his duel calling of nursing and ministry, on his first trip to Africa.
Rev. Frank’s passion for AIDS relief began when he stuck his finger with a “dirty needle” in 1988 at the height of the AIDS scare in America, while performing screening tests. The fear of infecting his wife and leaving his children orphaned tormented him. Fortunately, he wasn’t infected, but his identification with the disease was established and on his first trip to Africa in 2001 he was confronted firsthand with the AIDS epidemic. He was asked to send Ensure, liquid nutrition to help AIDS victims battle the disease. He started FAWN: Fighting AIDS with Nutrition. Now after, 20 years and 5 trips later, over 70 shipments of over 350,000 cans have been sent to Haiti, many nations in Africa and beyond globally.
In addition to being a BSN Registered Nurse, his accomplishments also include being an author, an actor and a movie producer. Frank has been covered by the local media in television features, radio interviews and many local newspaper articles. He has spoken in many venues on the subject of AIDS in Africa and FAWN. He is the recipient of a humanitarian awards and has been featured in the Grand Valley State University Nursing Magazine, where he graduated from in 1977.
His college sweetheart and wife, Peggy, is also a nurse. Angela, his daughter, is a Chemical Engineer with the Ford Motor Company and Frankie, his son, is a doctor of pharmacy. He has 2 grandsons and 2 granddaughters.
Finally, since 2020, Pastor Frank Julian was elected to serve on the Executive Board of World Medical Relief, At the same time Pastor Frank assumed the newly created position of World Medical Relief Chaplain.