"On a trip back to Southern California, - Lonnie had a divine encounter in a cave in Tahquitz Canyon. Lonnie had a vision from God, ""clear as crystal,"" in which he saw ""thousands and thousands of young people at the ocean, lined up in huge crowds along the coast, and they were going out into the water to be baptized."" According to Lonnie, he ""knew instantly that Jesus was real and that he was calling me to follow him."" After recommitting his life to Christ and receiving the call to ministry, Lonnie returned to San Francisco, quit art school, and took his first steps toward ministry as an evangelist. He met and quickly joined Ted Weiss and other Christian families in a communal ministry house called the Living Room in Novato, California. During this period, Lonnie witnessed to a young woman named Connie Bremer, who became a Christian and soon after, his wife. Together, they lived in the Living Room, and Lonnie took to the streets, feeding the hungry, open-air preaching, and even hitchhiking in order to share the gospel."
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