What if every Church and Ministry was to get together for one cause, wonder what we could all do together? 

What if, all  Churches and Ministries got together and decided to win our City, our County and the surrounding area for Jesus. 

What if we put our denominations aside for one cause, one reason, to win our area for Jesus and to see souls saved, people healed, people changed. 

What if  there was a way we could all work together and agree that people need Jesus in their lives?  I wonder what would happen to our homes, schools and our community.  It’s sad that it takes a tragedy like a mass shooting like we just witnessed or a devastating storm of some kind to get people to pull together. The Bible tells us a threefold cord is not easily broken.  Jesus said; “A house divided against itself will not stand.”  Together we can withstand the storms that are headed our way, divided we will fall.  Well there is a storm going on right now in our communities and our eyes are blind to it until it hits our homes.  We need to band together, the Churches and Ministries in our area and win back our community.  What if we started taking the Church on the road and present the Gospel to people where they are, in their homes, workplace and wherever we run into whosoever. 

What if we handed them a CD, or a gospel tract? Jesus spoke about the power of agreement in Matthew 18:19: "Again, I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven."  Don't put any limitation on this Scripture.  Jesus says what He means. We can receive anything if we agree about it in prayer.             

​The Bible says that one can put a thousand to flight, but two could put ten thousand to flight.  If we work together in unity we can reach our area for Christ. In the book of Jude verse 22 it says;  And some have compassion, making a difference. When we read this verse we need to take it to heart.  Compassion means we should feel for those who are lost and do something about it. Compassion should put us into action!  We might not reach everyone, but what about the ones we do reach.  We can make a difference in someone’s life today.  Together we can do so much more. One can put a thousand to flight but two can put ten thousand to flight. A three fold cord is not easily broken.  Working together will strengthen each and every person, Ministry, Church. Working together we can stretch a net not only across America, but all over the World.  

This is a free conference and no reservations or tickets are required. Closest motels are Mt. Vernon, IL. Several campgrounds in the area. Call me and I will help you decide where to stay.  We will start Friday afternoon @ 2 pm this year and there will be a fish fry Friday night, breakfast at 8 on Saturday and a catered lunch at 2pm Saturday. Sunday’s service will be moved to Orchardville Church 12 miles North of our Keenes Location.

We have tied ourselves together with many Ministries & Churches to reach souls out there on that Ole Lonesome Road.  We have joined with not only our local Church, but also many Churches and great Ministries around the Country.  We are also working with many great radio stations; HLE & Saddle Up Radio, Renegade Radio Network, Voice of the Highway, Cross Country USA Radio, Christian Voice Radio, Sound Radio Baton Rouge, La, Chattanooga Gospel Radio, Country Gold Cleveland, Tn. WPIL FM Heflin, AL. Dave Nemo Sunday Program Sirius/XM Channel 146, Tim Ridley Program M-F Sirius/XM Channel 146  to send the message around the world. Please check out their great programming and you will be blessed!
 We have also started our very own Radio Station so you will be able to hear our great programming through our stream on our website.  We are also working on having our very own app so you can download it to your phones very soon.  We hope to have everything in place by the end of June so we can stream our conference world wide for those who are not able to attend in person.
As Tony Mac would say; “It just keeps getting Gooder” and Gooder!!!!

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I traveled down to Nashville to the Religious National Broadcast Convention in early March searching for direction for this ministry.  I spoke with many radio stations about airing our broadcast.  I felt like radio and podcast was the next step for this ministry. I was praying and asking God to open doors for our ministry to be picked up by some of the radio stations. God has lead this ministry every step of the way since we began in 2000.  I heard the voice of the Lord say start your own radio station.  So once again we are stepping out into the unknown and we are starting Lonesome Roads  very own radio station.  God promises us that He will bless us in the city and the country in Deut 28: 3.  This verse says there is no limit to God’s blessings.  Wherever the obedient person goes God’s favor will follow. We are boldly believing that God is going to bless us with the finances we need to get this radio station up and going and maintain it so that we can continue this ministry far beyond the tape ministry He called us into in 1999.  We are praying for God’s blessings to flow to all who plant tithes & love offerings in this fertile ground.  God bless each and everyone of you who partner with us by listening to the CD’S and passing them on to OTHERS.  We are working on cards to have for everyone to share with others to guide them to our radio station.  We hope to have this in place by the end of June.  We thank you all for your help & support.  Read Deut. 28 verses 1-14 and claim these verses for your life and your families lives.  ​

We just got a call from someone who was handed a CD, “Life’s Lonely Highway” testimony of Kevin Nelson.  Kevin & Rachelle Nelson of Sonshine Road was singing in Florida and they were passing out a lot of our free CD’S.  Robert said he just had to call and tell us how blessed he was by the testimony of Kevin Nelson that he had listen to after leaving the concert.   He told me even though he was saved and serving the Lord he just had to call and talk to Kevin.  He shared with me his amazing testimony of how God was using him, then I gave him Kevin’s number so he could talk with him.   I am just so blessed to get to talk to so many who call and share their amazing stories of how God has saved them and is using them to reach others.  What a privilege it is for us to work with so many great people.   

The Bible tells us we are overcomers by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony.  We have the power to defeat our enemy the devil through Jesus with our testimony.  I have always said the most powerful sermon we have is our own testimony.  We love sermons and we use many sermons in this ministry, but the most powerful format we have are the testimonies of our partners here at Lonesome Road.  God spoke to me over 22 years ago to put my testimony on a cassette tape and put some of the songs that God was giving me on a tape and take it on the road and share it with other drivers on the road.  That was the beginning of Lonesome Road Ministries and since then we have put out many different testimonies of folks who love Jesus and just want to share their stories with whosoever, wherever, and whenever they can.  We have also put out a lot of powerful sermons to reach the lost, hurting, and confused souls out on that ole Lonesome Road.  God has brought us all the way from a tape cassette ministry to where we are now.   We have freely given away over 2 and one half million free messages on Cassette and CD’S.  This ministry has been successful because of our partners who help support and pass out our messages.  God continues to change us, but no matter what method we use, cassette tape, CD, Podcast or Radio, the message stays the same.  We have found that there are many roads to Lonesome.  Each person has a unique story to tell about how God has intervened in their life.  We look forward to hearing your story of how God has saved you and is using you to reach others.

We are looking forward to many more years of ministry and helping spread the Good News!  As many of you know the CD players are not being put in the new cars, and trucks so we are having to find new ways to get the message in the hands of those on the road.  We are excited about the future of our ministry and the new home God gave us here in Keenes, IL.  I believe God gave us this new home so that we can not only reach folks in the surrounding area but continue to reach lost and hurting people across America.  So, we want to thank all our friends, family and partners who are helping support and share the CD’S and radio programs with so many families, friends and neighbors.  I believe God is going to be raising us up to a new level very soon and I am hoping to be able to reveal the direction God is sending us at our conference in June. Come join us June 24,25,26 for our 9th 3-Fold Cord conference. So, remember Jesus Loves you and wants to use you to reach someone today.  Share your testimony, we are overcomers by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony.  

Below is a live podcast Chaplain Gary Rayburn gave March 11th 2022 at the NRB Conference in Nashville Tennessee! we would like to give a big Lonesome Road HOWDY and THANK YOU to the folks at Christian Crusaders.
One last word about them. Besides Chaplain Gary's testimony, they have some really good podcast to listen to. 

This month’s Testimony CD from Cliff Clark is a reminder from God that He wants to use each and everyone of us!  Cliff starts out telling us about how God set him up to reach a lonely trucker who was running from God. This month’s testimony CD will have you laughing and crying, but most of all it will let you know that God is not through with you yet.  God is still wanting to use each and everyone of us to reach someone for Him..  As you listen to Cliff’s testimony I pray you will hear God’s voice asking whom shall I send?
  
Today can be the beginning of something brand new in our lives, our ministries, our churches, our homes.  God wants to bring us to a new level, if we will just take a step of faith and follow Him!   God has something special, something unique for each and every one of us if we will just reach out and grab it. Most of the time it requires us launching out into the deep, claiming territory we are not comfortable in, or in other words getting out of our comfort zone.  Many times it has us doing things we just aren't capable of doing, but with God all things are possible.  
  
In Luke Chapter 5 verse 4 Jesus says to Simon, launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.  Jesus used this moment to turn these ordinary men into mighty warriors for the Gospel.  These fishermen when they saw who Jesus was, they left everything and followed Him!  This was the beginning of their ministries, and today can be the beginning of something brand new for each one of us.  We too need to see who Jesus is in our lives and we need to say, “ Here am I Lord, send me,” use me to make a difference in the lives of others. 
  
​God doesn’t call the qualified, He qualifies the called.  God specializes in using people who aren’t naturally qualified to accomplish His tasks.  God isn’t looking for impressive people; He wants willing ones who will bow a knee in humble submission.  Being weak and ordinary doesn’t make you useless, rather it positions you for a demonstration of divine power in your life.  God takes insignificant ones and delights in making them mighty warriors. God is saying to each one of us, “Whom shall I send;” Then said I, “Here Am I Lord, Use Me…”​

I Remember well the day I met Tony & Candy McMullen in a little Church in Springerton, IL. I had listened to the most powerful testimony I had ever heard in my life and I knew I just had to get it on a cassette tape and pass it out to whosoever on the road.  I ask Tony after the service If I could use his testimony in our tape ministry and he said sure, it belongs to God not Tony Mac.  He gave me a copy and I started duplicating it and we became friends and partners in ministry.  Tony Mac would come to Illinois several times each year after that.  Tony would always go anywhere he was asked to go to share his testimony.  Tony Mac became my friend, my brother, my counselor, my mentor. 
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This month’s CD we are dipping into the archives for a classic.  We have a double portion blessing for you this month.   Mike Adkins & Tony Mac McMullen was with us several years ago at Rig Ministries.  This night was a real blessing and I know you will be blessed when you listen to these two anointed giants in the ministry.  This month’s CD title is  “Are You Listening?” Tony tells a story about a time long ago before refrigerators of how people used ice houses to preserve their food.  Ice houses had thick walls, no windows, and a tightly fitting door.  In winter, when streams and ponds were frozen, large blocks of ice were cut, hauled to the ice houses, and covered with sawdust.  Often the ice would last well into the summer. Tony told about a man who lost a valuable watch in the ice house one day.  He searched and searched but never found his watch.  His fellow workers also came and searched, raking the sawdust but to no avail.  While the workers were taking their lunch break a small boy slipped into the ice house and closed the door and soon he emerged with the watch.  Amazed, the men asked,   how in the world did you find that watch in there without any light.  The boy replied I just laid down in the saw dust, and after a while I heard tick, tick, tick and I just kept moving toward the sound. The ticking got so loud that I finally just reached over and picked up the watch.   

When we are having a hard time hearing God speak, maybe we need to close the door and be still, and then we might just hear God speaking to us.  After all, just as the watch was ticking the whole time everyone else was searching for it, so is our God always speaking to us.  We just need to learn to do as the scripture says, “Be still and know that He is God.”  God loves us and wants a personal relationship with each and every one of us.  I know if we will slow down and get alone with God He has something He wants to show and tell us.  We just might be surprised what direction God is trying to get us to go.  Listen to this message and then listen to what God is saying to you!

Tony would always say, when we go into the prisons we don’t pass the hat because if we did we wouldn’t get our hat back.  So Free in Christ Ministries relies solely on folks like you and me to keep this very important ministry going.     

Since Tony Mac passed away in 2016 Free in Christ Ministries has been ran by Tony’s wife Candy Mac and his daughter Michelle Mac. Free in Christ Ministries has been hit hard by the Covid mandates, they have been having a hard time getting into the prisons to minister.  They need your prayers and support...    

So today after you listen to this CD or podcast I ask you to find you a quiet place and close the door and pray, ask God, what would you have me give to Free in Christ Ministries. Your gift will help them continue reaching the people inside the prisons. The Scripture clearly tells us we can’t out give God.      

Paul says in 2nd Corinthians that he which soweth sparingly shall reap sparingly; but he who sows bountifully shall reap bountifully. Paul ask each of us in verse 7 to search our hearts, so we will not give grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loves a cheerful giver. and in verse 8 Paul says God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work: verse nine says; As it is written, He has dispersed abroad; He hath given to the poor: His righteousness remains for ever. I pray you will be blessed and highly favored for your generosity.