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Frisbee: The Life and Death of a Hippie Preacher

What do you do when the Jesus freak who started your church dies from AIDS? Simple. Erase him from history.
Apr 24, 2005 · 1h 45m
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Lonnie Frisbee was a young hippie seeker fully immersed in the 1960s counter culture when he claimed to have experienced an encounter with God while on an acid trip. This event so transformed him that Lonnie became an itinerant Christian evangelist, something of a John the Baptist of Southern California who compelled thousands of fellow spiritual seekers to make a profession of faith in Jesus Christ. During the 1970s Lonnie Frisbee became widely known as California's "hippie preacher," the quintessential "Jesus freak" whose pictures frequented such magazines as Time and Life as the media told the story of a burgeoning "Jesus movement." Lonnie Frisbee provided the charismatic spark that launched the Calvary Chapel church into a worldwide ministry and propelled many fledgling leaders into some of the most powerful movers and shakers of the evangelical movement.

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Mel White
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Troy Perry
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Lonnie Frisbee
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Marjoe Gortner
Directed by David Di Sabatino

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