God’s glory and presence is even greater in this new season, this new year.  We have new ways to get the message to you so you can pass it on to your family, friends, & neighbors.  Not only do we still produce the CD’S for you to share, now we are producing Podcast cards with the QR codes that you can share with OTHERS!  All you have to do is scan the code above with your phone and it will take you to our podcast for this month, “A New Season.”
  We also have started a Radio station for you to listen to and share with OTHERS!  www.Lonesomeroadradio.com not only that we have an app in your app store on your phone you can download.   So many ways to share the Good News of Jesus our Lord.  God continues to increase His favor in our lives, our Ministries, & our Churches.  He wants to amazes us with His goodness.  He wants to bring His people up to a new level.  God is looking for those who are willing to say, “Here am I Lord, use me.  We serve a God of increase, so we need to increase our vision in this new season, this new year that God has allowed us to have.  So many lost souls are out there on that ole Lonesome Road, we need to get busy!!!

 I want everything that God has for me and I know you do too!  So let’s pray and agree together that in 2023, God will be so big in us that everyone who we come in contact with will see the Jesus who lives in us!

I got a call from one of our partners, Ronnie Archer the first week of January.  He shared his new year’s resolution with me.  Ronnie said, “I want God to be so big in me in 2023, that all the world will see the God that lives in me!”  I told Ronnie, “I was going to make that my resolution too, and share it with everyone I know.”  I am claiming this resolution for me and all of you who want to do something great for God! 

The time is now for us to get busy and stretch this Gospel net all across America, and into the uttermost parts of the world.  Our radio station has had over 16 countries log on and listen to our broadcast.  We need you to start sharing our radio station link, our CD’S, Our Podcast cards.  We need to reach the lost.  God wants to use you to do the impossible today.  God isn’t looking for impressive people, He wants willing ones who will bow their knee in humble submission.  God wants to turn you into His mighty warrior.              We are who God says we are and we have what God says we have. I declare today that the Word of God is true for your life the same as it is true for my life.  We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us.  We are full of talent, creativity, and wisdom. We can accomplish whatever dreams and visions God has given us.  I declare in Jesus name that we walk in divine health.  We will have the favor of God and the anointing of God with us every step of the way, with every person we meet.  We will prosper and we will succeed in everything we attempt for God. God has planted seeds of greatness in each one of us and we are coming into a new season of increase, a new season of God’s favor, a new season of God’s blessings!  We are blessed & highly favored and we will walk in it in 2023!!!    

Since the virus, Dennis and Leslie has felt that they are supposed to be involved in some kind of local related ministry along with being involved with Lonesome Road Ministries.   Well, in January Dennis & Leslie has started a Bible study & fellowship, and you know that will include a lot of great music.  They are meeting once a month, 4 pm at their studio 115A,201 N. Browder St. Columbus, MS. 39702.  Everyone is invited.  There is a Love’s Truck stop close by so if your in the area give them a call and they will pick you up.  For now they are meeting once a month and the next gathering is Feb 26 at 4pm.  For more info Call Leslie McKay, 662.312.4146

Our 10th anniversary of the 3 Fold Cord Conference will be a very special conference in 2023. All your favorite speakers & singers will be in attendance, so mark your calendars June 23,24,25 2023. Our speakers will be, my Pastor Rick Hays, Darrell Spicer, Gaylon Taylor, Richie Turnbo, Richard Coss, & James Payne.  All your favorite singers will be there also. 
Starts Friday June 23 @ 2PM, and we will have some great food provided by my brother in law Don Tucker on Friday night @ 5:30.  James Payne will be here Friday night @ 6:45.  Saturday morning we will be providing Breakfast @ 8:30 and the Conference will begin @ 9:30 Saturday and run all day with another great meal @ 2pm furnished by Lonesome Road Ministries. Free admission, free food for the body & soul, so come join us and bring a friend.  No reservations needed just show up!  Give me a call @ 618-383-2107 for the best location of motels, RV camps, etc.

A very rich man sat at his dinner table and watched his three children fight over the TV remote.  He decided to make his children an incredible offer.  If they would stop what they were doing and come to the table as a family for dinner, then join him to clear away the dishes, he would reward them generously.  He told them that after dinner his private jet would fly them to the best theme parks.  Then they could tour the world and visit any location they personally desired.  Added to this, they could invite all their friends and the same offer would be made to them.

Two of his children leapt eagerly from their chairs and joined their father at the dinner table - this was an extremely generous offer not to be missed.  They were so overjoyed, that spending ten minutes afterwards doing the dishes was just an opportunity to discuss the fantastic wonders to come.  As for phoning their friends with the invitation, that certainly wasn’t a chore. 
However, one son didn’t join the family dinner - his favourite show was on.  He gave away the opportunity of a lifetime to watch a half-hour sitcom.
When we believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, we are ‘reborn’ into God’s family.  As our Heavenly Father, God has made us a generous offer, which makes the offer described above look dull.   God has said, if we join our family at the table (Christian fellowship), help with the dishes (Christian service) and invite all our friends (evangelize), He will give us fantastic rewards, far beyond our imagination and expectation (2 Timothy 2: 11-13).
What we do in life ‘does’ have repercussions throughout eternity.  Life is so small compared to forever – less than a half-hour sitcom.  We would be pretty stupid not to switch off ‘life’s distractions’ and join the family dinner for an eternity of riches.  
But as it is written: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”  1 Corinthians 2:9.

If you can find the mistake from the graphic above, email us at bruce@lonesomeroadministries.org

2023, who would have ever thunk it!  We begin our 23rd year of ministry here at Lonesome Road Ministries.  This month’s CD we have some great testimonies by Joe Arview about his songs and also about a great hymn, I Have Decided.  You are gonna love these stories by Joe.  As you can see by the above picture we now have many ways to get the message to you.  You can play the CD or simply scan the code with your phone to listen to this month’s message. We have come a long way from when we first started a cassette tape ministry in October 2000.  I am reminded how that first tape ministry failed and how heart broke I was.  I thought, well I tried but I failed, I guess I will just have to quit.  I called my mentor Ray Sisk down in Appling, Ga.  Ray had a ministry called I-20 for Jesus that I followed and simulated when I began Lonesome Road Ministry.  I called Ray and told him, the Church told me I couldn’t do a tape ministry there anymore.  I told Ray I guess I’m just going to have to quit.  Ray told me that day, “Son you done put your hand to the plow, you can’t quit.  If God has called you to do a tape ministry, then you do a tape ministry.  You do it out of your garage, your house or where ever you can but you can’t quit.”  So I decided right then, there’s no place to quit. When God calls you to do something, you must do what God calls you to do.  The devil has been trying to stop this ministry now for over 22 years and I refuse to quit.  We just ordered another load of CD’S and the price has almost doubled. The postage continues to go higher and higher but I won’t let that stop me, we will continue to send out free CD’S.  Even our Collector Cards we are just getting started making, yeah you guessed it,  the price of these cards are going up too.  Satan is a liar and a thief and he come to kill, steal and destroy.  

But the good news is, Jesus came to give us life and life more abundantly.
I get calls everyday from folks all around the country asking me what my opinion is of the state of our country.  Many people are wringing their hands and crying woe is me!!!  I will tell you, that makes our job even more important than it ever was. We must keep our hands to the plow!!  We are to shine the light of Jesus to our family, friends, & neighbors, and as for me and my house we are going to serve the Lord!  God called each of us to be that light in this dark world. We are blessed & highly favored and He has called us to shine our light so others might see Jesus in us.  As Ray Sisk told me in 2001, son you done put your hand to the plow you can’t quit!  You keep on doing what God has called you to do and He will continue to lift you to higher levels to reach more people.  So I decided in 2001 that I would not quit no matter what.  Today I have decided no matter what happens or how ridiculous the prices get, I will keep on keeping on for Jesus.  There is someone out there right now that needs to see the light of Jesus in us.  It might be a family member, a friend, or a neighbor; but God has someone for us to witness to today.  If every Christian was to shine our light in this dark world it wouldn’t be long and this dark world would start changing.  I have decided to keep on witnessing and shining the light of Jesus everywhere I go.  Join with us here at Lonesome Road Ministry and we can make a difference in someone’s life today.  We might not reach everyone, but we can make a difference to the ones we do reach out too.  We must take up our cross daily and follow Jesus.  I will not quit until I hear well done thou good and faithful servant! 

Our 10th anniversary of the 3 Fold Cord Conference will be a very special conference in 2023. All your favorite speakers & singers will be in attendance, so mark your calendars June 23,24,25 2023. Our speakers will be, my Pastor Rick Hays, Darrell Spicer, Gaylon Taylor, Richie Turnbo, Richard Coss, & James Payne.  All your favorite singers will be there also. 
Starts Friday June 23 @ 2PM, and we will have some great food provided by my brother in law Don Tucker on Friday night @ 5:30.  James Payne will be here Friday night @ 6:45.  Saturday morning we will be providing Breakfast @ 8:30 and the Conference will begin @ 9:30 Saturday and run all day with another great meal @ 2pm furnished by Randy Mason.  Free admission, free food for the body & soul, so come join us and bring a friend.  No reservations needed just show up!  Give me a call @ 618-383-2107 for the best location of motels, RV camps, etc.     

What?
A 3 Fold Cord Puzzle!
Click on the Link Below.
​Go ahead, are you smarter than a fifth grader?

Our 10th year will be a very special conference.  We are celebrating by bringing Gaylon Taylor who God spoke to about doing a Three Fold Cord conference way back in 2012.  Darrell Spicer had just started Channel 21 Ministries and was very excited about working with our Ministry and Gaylon Taylor’s Ministry so we decided it would be a Three Fold Cord conference with the 3 ministries combining to host the conference. So our first conference was in 2013 at Carmi and this year will be our 10th anniversary of the conference. 
  So along with Gaylon Taylor, Darrell Spicer, James Payne, I have asked Pastor Richie Turnbo, who was one of Darrell Spicer’s 1st Chaplains, to come and be a Speaker along with Darrell & Gaylon.  We will also have James Payne who will speak Friday night and Saturday.  I have also asked my Pastor Rick Hays to be one of our speakers along with Richard Coss.  Roger Barkley Jr. will be here helping MC and running sound. Stay tuned for more information on some of the talented folks who will be here singing and sharing testimonies of just how great our God is.  Last year we had James Payne, Roger Barkley Jr. and the Redemption band,  Joe Arview, Bill Schell, Jim & Ann Davenport, Sonshine Road, Ava Kasich, Mike Wellman, and many of you shared testimonies of just how great are God is!  So this year we are expecting all will return & God will fill the house and fill each of us up to overflowing. Lonesome Road Ministries location is 107 Sycamore St. Keenes, IL. 62851. You are invited to come join us for 3 days of great food, Awesome Music, Powerful Testimonies, and maybe just a little bit of preaching.  Starts Friday June 23 @ 2PM with some great food that is provided by my brother in law Don Tucker on Friday night @ 5:30.  James Payne will be here Friday night @ 6:45.  Saturday morning we will be providing Breakfast @ 8:30 and the Conference will begin @ 9:30 Saturday and run all day long with another great meal @ 2pm furnished by Randy Mason.  Free admission, free food for the body & soul, so come join us and bring a friend.  No reservations needed just show up!  Give me a call @ 618-383-2107 for the best location of motels, RV camps, etc.     ​

Lonesome Road Ministries is a church on the road, a church out of the box.  We are not your ordinary church.  We are constantly looking to go to the next level.  Our prayer is always, the prayer of Isaiah in Chapter 6 verse 8. Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.  The only way to get to the next level is to ask!  So why not ask?  James 4 verse 2 says you have not because you ask not.  We should never be content in our ministries or churches where we are, we need to strive to go to the next level.  We are not to be satisfied, we are not to be content where we are.  There are souls out there who are dying and going to Hell and it’s up to us to not only tell them, but to show them a real Jesus.  If we are truly born again Christians then it’s  up to us to show them the Jesus that lives in us. It is our job to reach out to them every day, EVERY DAY!  We are not to be once a week Christians. A once a week Christian makes for a weak Christian. When we become Christians God gave us power to be bold and to go and share our faith with others!  So working together we can make a difference in the lives of our family, friends and neighbors.  

Jesus tells us in John Chapter 4 verse 35-38  Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest!  And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.  For in this the saying is true: ‘One sows and another reaps.’ I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labors.”

 We invite you to join with us in our labor and let us join with you in your labor and working together we can become that 3 fold cord which will withstand all that the devil will throw at us. God has given us the tools to take the Gospel message into all the world.

What started out as a Cassette Tape Ministry in October 2000, 22 years ago, God has continued to raise us up to new levels. We started making CD’s in late 2004 and then moved into podcast programs in 2009. From there, God moved us to radio programs and now God has given us our very own radio station to send the Gospel all over the world with.  We are hearing from countries all over the world who have been tuning in to our radio station.  God is also giving us a new way to bring the Gospel to our listeners with our Collector Cards.  These cards look like the baseball trading cards I  use to collect when I was a kid. I always dreamed of being on one of those baseball cards and now I am on God’s team and we have our own trading card sharing testimonies with all who pick up these cards and scan the QR code on the back.  It takes you to our podcast, which is a CD on Steroids!! Going to the next level can be a scary, but exciting, thing to do. God is looking for those who will say, “Here am I Lord send me. So join with us and download our app, Lonesome Road Radio on your phone and share our radio station with all your friends and neighbors,or share our website www.lonesomeroadradio.com. 

Together we can make a difference in someone else's life today!  Don’t let anyone tell you you can’t make a difference, with God all things are possible. God wants to pour out his favor and blessings to all His people who enlarge their vision to reach others. God is looking for you to go to the next level in your life or your ministry, but, we must increase our vision and our capacity to receive what God has for us.  Just like the widow in 2 Kings chapter 4. She cried out to the prophet Elisha, my husband is dead and the creditors are coming to enslave my two sons. Elisha said what do you have in the house, and she said, “We ain’t got nothing but a jar of oil.”  Elisha told her to go and gather all the empty jars she could find, and do not gather just a few. Then, fill them from the jug of oil she had.  When she did this she filled every jar she brought, Elisha told her to go and sell the oil and pay off all her creditors and her and her sons were to live off the rest. God is wanting us to go out and gather as many empty vessels as we possibly can, and those empty vessels are our family, friends and neighbors who don’t know Jesus.  God wants us to go out into the highways and hedges and find empty vessels so that He can fill them with the oil of the Holy Spirit to overflowing.  God has an endless flow of His Spirit for whosoever will ask, but it’s up to us to go out and find those empty vessels. We need to be contagious Christians making a difference to all we come in contact with. We’ve all heard the saying, ”You might be the only Bible someone ever reads.” That’s true, so let’s be something worth reading!   ​

Don’t you just love this, Scripture?  Paul writing to us, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable…if anything is excellent or praiseworthy, think about such things.  At first glance I’m thinking only Jesus could be all these things, but Paul is encouraging us to be all these things.   That is what Christian means to be Christ like.  That is exactly what I like about working with all the partners we have here at Lonesome Road Ministries.  Men and women who are striving to be Christ like.  Roger Barkley Jr. and his wife Dianna and Chuck & Rhonda Helms are perfect examples of this verse. All four have come onboard as Road Chaplains for our Channel 21 Ministries program.  They are a joy to work with in ministry and they travel all over spreading the Good News!  Since coming on board they have helped us take this ministry to the next level. 

The Collector Card you see above is Roger’s testimony that we recorded here at the radio station a few months ago.  These cards, along with the radio station that Roger has helped get started, are taking the ministry to the next level. When I told Roger what I wanted to do with the cards he loved the idea and jumped right on it and had them designed faster than I could send the pictures and bio info for the backs.  We now have 13 cards and plan on trying to produce 6-8 more each month. So if you would like to have some of the cards to collect or to pass on to family, friends, and neighbors, just let us know and we will make sure you get as many as you would like.

If we have your testimony or preaching on one of our CD’s we need you to send us a good picture & bio to make a card for you. Please do not worry about your CD’s though, we plan to continue to produce CD’s as long as there is a demand for them. 

​Please listen to this CD and you will hear Roger and the Redemption Band, and listen to the message I have on this CD.

​It is a challenge for all of us to Think God!  Just like the movie that George Burns played God in back several years ago.  I loved those movies and every time they come on I have to sit and watch them.

Chaplain Tom Price is buying toy trucks like the one in this picture and turning them into tools to spread the Gospel. Tom is enlarging his area. He is wanting a whole fleet of trucks armed with the Gospel to make a difference in his area.  

​Jim & Ann Davenport have staked a claim at The Passion Play in Eureka Springs, AR. They have become the Pastors of the Church of the Grove that is located on the Passion Play grounds, and they are ministering to folks from all over the world as God brings them. 

Channel 21 Ministry program is growing by leaps and bounds and we are adding new Chaplains all the time. Roger Barkley Jr & his wife Dianna, Chuck & Rhonda Helms, Pastor Jeff & Jessica Lewis of New Beginnings Church in Columbia City, IN are some of our newest Chaplains to join the team.  Men and women who want to stake a claim on their family, friends, & neighbors and want to enlarge their territory.

Another one of our new Chaplains who is staking a claim on a truck driving school is Chaplain Darrell Patton of Hazel Green AL.  Darrell goes to the school and talks to the drivers in the classes and hands out Bibles, CD’s and books to the new drivers.  Staking a claim on the future of the trucking industry.  When we take that step of faith, and failure is guaranteed, unless God steps in and takes control of what we are attempting.  That is when we become all that God has purposed us for.  When we take that Jabez prayer and make it our prayer by placing our name in there, that is when  God starts to bless us and enlarge our territory to something we could have never even imagined.  

Through a simple little believing prayer, you can change your future and the future of others that you come in contact with.  You can change what happens one minute from now just by calling out to God, and staking your claim on your future and the future of your family and stretching his territory for Jesus.  Many others are making a difference. 

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!!!!

Click on image below to go to Channel 21 Ministries Website

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.  ​