Frank was brought up in a secular home, with no talk of God. At the age of 19, however, after reading the gospels for the first time, he underwent a profound transformation and yielded his life to Jesus Christ. His neighbor, a Baptist minister, became his mentor. After college he thought he would be a missionary, but soon discovered that was not his vocation. His journey to the Catholic Church began when the adult Bible study group, in his Baptist Church, ask him to teach them about how we got the Bible.