Imagine if John the Baptist came of age during the 1960s counter culture, the charisma of Jim Morrison flowing from the mantle of an Old Testament prophet.
Meet Lonnie Frisbee, a seeker turned Jesus freak evangelist who compelled thousands towards a profession of Christian faith. It was during a trip into a canyon
that Frisbee claimed that God gave him a vision of his future as an influential evangelist to the hippie generation.
Four years later the vision would be fulfilled as
pictures of Lonnie baptizing teenage converts were splashed across the pages of Time and Life magazines forever celebrating him as an icon of the Jesus movement.
Despite the stories of spiritual prowess that surround his life, his enduring struggles overwhelmed him. And even though he was the charismatic sparkplug igniting the
rise of two worldwide denominations (Calvary Chapel & Vineyard), his name has all but been removed from their histories.
Frisbee: The Life and Death of a Hippie Preacher is the powerful story revealing the risk-taking nature of God, aligning himself with the most unlikely of characters
as if to send out the message (yet again) that everyone is invited to participate.
"Frisbee" recounts the life of a radical hippie turned Christian evangelist whose call into the ministry came while involved in the Laguna Beach homosexual
scene. Even though he was the spark who propelled two of the largest evangelical denominations in the last thirty years into existence, he was treated with
contempt throughout his career because of his sexuality. What do you do when the Jesus freak who starts your church dies from AIDS? Simple. Erase him
from history.