Up and One Man’s Walk Through Deliverance is a compelling and inspiring memoir detailing Apostle Tavares Gardner’s journey through sexual abuse and homosexuality, to deliverance. With an open heart, transparency, and refreshing voice, Gardner, pastor of The Way Fellowship Church of Dallas, shares his story that is both heartbreaking, heartwarming, and filled with hope. His broken home made him susceptible to sexual abuse as a young boy, thus planting a seed of confusion and sin that would lead him on a path to homosexuality as a young adult. But deep inside his soul, Gardner knew this wasn’t his true self. As God would have it, friendship, faith, and an unexpected love would eventually set him free.