The Turning Point

About the Book

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About the Author

Edwin Douglas Grayson was born September 12, 1940, to the late Rev. T. R. Grayson and Mrs. Goldia L. Agee Grayson in Dixon Mills, Alabama. He is the eldest of six children, four boys and two girls. Grayson, as all his friends know him, graduated from the Marengo Country Training School in 1958. Then he attended Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia where he met his wife, Mrs. Betty Ann Brantley. From this union they had four children, three girls and one boy. In April 1960, Grayson joined the Rising Star Baptist Church in Griffin, Georgia. His wife was raised up in this church under the tutelage of the late Rev. J. C. Smith. In 1962 Grayson joined the usher board and became a Sunday school teacher the same year. A few years later, he drove the church van. Most of the riders were the elderly who needed a ride to church. In 1987, he was set aside to become a deacon and a year later he was appointed to that position. The chairman of the deacon board became ill in 1996 and Grayson was appointed to take the position of chairman. He has been active in this position ever since.