People call his radio program, aired in four states—Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire and Maryland—“therapeutic.”

“I say, ‘Lay worry aside,’” Pastor Frank Tamilio told Woburn Patch Thursday from his Main Street office and suite where he records his five, weekly, hour-long programs of “Christian praise and worship music with devotional thoughts.”

“Realize,” he said, “God loves, is forgiving and the Bible is true.”

Pastor Frank marked the 20th year of the incorporation of his Amazing Grace Ministry, Inc. last week. He is its president and founder. One way he ministers to people is over the air, for the last 13 years in the commonwealth on WEZE 590 AM.

As a young man, Frank Tamilio worked as a DJ at a contemporary music station in Newburyport and for an FM jazz station—but not, he said, as his primary means of support. He worked in management, he said, for a large national trucking company.

When he turned 30, “Life changed,” he said. He underwent a spiritual conversion. He became a Christian, then a volunteer prison chaplain and then as a full-time prison chaplain for the Massachusetts Department of Corrections from 1981 until he retired in 1992.

“I found I had a heart for it,” he said.

“I learned a lot about life. I was there six days a week. I got tired.”

He took his ministry to the airwaves. At first, he’d find a Christian radio station, he said, and pay to lease air time for his program. He prepared his broadcast at his home here.

Both Pastor Frank and his wife, Ellen, are Woburn natives. They both graduated from WHS:  he in 1954, he said; she in 1956. They have five adult children. Frank is an associate pastor at the Abundant Life Church in Wilmington.

In the 1990s, a Christian radio station, which is now a sports station, Pastor Frank said, came to Boston. He went to the station, hoping to lease time there. Unexpectedly, the general manager auditioned him, he said, and offered him a job. He was on the air live two hours a night, five nights a week, he said, and on Saturdays for half an hour. After a series of format changes, he took his program to WEZE. He’s been there for 13 years.

He records his hour-long programs—he tries to tape five a week—in his office on Main Street.  It takes at least half a day to create a program, he said. Several volunteers help, including a producer. The programming (www.agmradio.net) survives, he said, on contributions to the non-profit 501 (C) (3) organization.

One of the reasons Pastor Frank moved to 536 Main Street this past May, he said, is to connect with the community. Most people who know him are outside Woburn, according to the pastor. He invites people to call him (781-932-6222) and introduce themselves.

So what’s the name of the radio show? Selah. To “Bible people,” the Old Testament word means “to pause,” according to Pastor Frank—and to relax. The show airs from Boston Monday through Friday nights from 10 to 11 p.m. and on Sundays from 11 p.m. to midnight.