Roger Sachs

In 1982 Director Roger Sachs founded Freedom Crusade, our parent church organization, as an outgrowth of his missionary work in Mexico. In addition to the local church, he helped plant and oversee two churches in Tecate, Mexico.

He also worked closely with New Life Crusade ( Big Jim Tucker’s Ministry ) for over twenty years  in prison ministry, re-hab, and serving on their Board of Directors.  From 1994 until 1996 Roger, his wife Roxanne, and their two youngest children, John and Jenna, were sent out by Freedom Crusade on a long term missionary journey which took them to England, South Africa, Namibia, and New Zealand.

Roger formed evangelistic outreach teams in each of these nations, working and networking with a variety of different churches, ministries, and organizations. In 2006 Roger retired from his occupation as a C-53 State Contractor, and has been devoting full time to developing and building on the ministry foundation of service to God and our Savior Jesus Christ.

As a close friend of Lonnie I was given the rights to do his authorized biography. Lonnie personally recorded more than 100 hours of audio and video where he tells his own amazing story. In these tapes, he is exceedingly honest about his entire life. He openly shares about his childhood, including sexual victimization, his introduction to drugs during the wild sixties, as well as his conversion and call to ministry. Many consider Lonnie the original “Jesus Freak”. He also shares about his turbulent marriage, backsliding experiences . . . along with a sincere repentance and painful restoration. He humbly revisits the amazing way God used him as a catalyst in the “Jesus Movement”, the formation of “Calvary Chapel”, the birth of the “Vineyard” Church movement, revival in South Africa, and a move of God in Sweden and other countries.

During the height of the Jesus Movement, Lonnie was featured on the cover of “Time” and “Look” magazines. He has been featured in multiple books, magazines, TV and radio appearances, as well as films and documentaries spanning nearly 40 years. In his final years he desperately wanted to tell his own story. It is one of the highlights of my entire life to have been a small part of the Lonnie Frisbee phenomena. I asked him once how he’d like to describe himself. He said . . . “I’m a hippie and I’m a happening!”. He had a great sense of humor. Lonnie was totally sold out to God, and (with a smile on our faces), the Lord mightily used this unlikely candidate. The anointing on his life was truly amazing and totally unforgettable.

Lonnie tragically died at only 43 years of age in 1993. What a shock. Myself and others had been doing a series of mission meetings with Lonnie, as well as traveling and working on several book and video projects prior to his death. Shortly after Lonnie’s death my family and I went on an extended missionary journey which consumed two years. I felt led to put all our Lonnie projects on hold until early 2007. Now I believe . . . “it’s time”. It is my heart that through the completion of these projects, God will once again use Lonnie as a spark to raise up a generation of radical, obedient, free from religion, young people (and old) that will take the love and message of Christ powerfully around the world.

Check this site often to keep up to date with the progress of our projects. You’ve heard the story from others. Now hear the rest of the story . . . from Lonnie himself.

Ernesto Hernandez is the pastor of a growing church in Tecate, Mexico. Ernesto runs a ranch that works with young people, including those who have been orphaned and abandoned, to train and nurture them to carry the good news of Jesus Christ to Mexico and the nations. He dreams of creating an educational center and a university.

Ernesto Hernandez is an ordained Freedom Crusade minister. He also directs a Tecate-based church planting ministry which finds, equips and helps young preachers and churches become established.

Ernesto and his personal testimony are found in greater detail in Roger Sach’s book, Fire on the Mountain.

Rev. Glenn (first left).

Rev. Glenn Adkins was Roger Sach’s first pastor. You can read about how they met in Fire on the Mountain. Glenn’s is ordained with Freedom Crusade and his current ministry is The Lord’s Trumpet based in Big Bear, CA., and working out of his home church, Believer’s Chapel.

Rev. Glenn has been ministering and singing around the nation since He was seventeen years old. Most of His ministry happens on the streets, byways, and bars. He gets people’s attention with his singing on the streets and bars for the Lord, but knows how to answer the tough ’street and bar’ questions that usually come up. He believes in ‘friendship evangelism’. He reaches people that most of us don’t or wouldn’t want to reach.

He has been in ministry for forty years. Most of His ministry over the years has been in Hollywood, Venice Beach walkway, and Topanga Canyon, near Malibu, where He pastored for over fourteen years. He later pastored in Big Bear for nine years. Even though He pastored for those years, His main ministry was outreach outside the church walls. He has also been involved as the chaplain of the Big Bear Hospital and San Bernardino County Sheriffs Department, working out of the Big Bear Sheriff’s station.