When Rep. Ted Budd (R-N.C.) completed his studies at Dallas Theological Seminary in 1998, he believed he was called by God to return to his family’s business in North Carolina even though he and wife Amy Kate had quite a different future in mind.
“Within a month, my 33-year-old sister-in-law, married to my brother, four kids, and my brother is running the business at that point. She was diagnosed with terminal, aggressive small-cell lung cancer, died seven months later,” Budd told The Epoch Times during a recent interview.
