About Us

There was a chill in the air as I stepped out of my
apartment in suburban Detroit. It smelled as if
someone was burning cedar in their fireplace. It
was an aroma that momentarily took me back to my
days in the youth group many years ago when we
would go on retreats to the country and have
campfires. Had it really been that long ago? I had no
time to linger. I was heading for the dumpster. In my
hand was a trash bag that held the pills and alcohol
that consumed my life only a few days before. I was going
to face life without them.

Larry Mullinax-
Ministry Founder

I was working extremely long hours and did not want to tell my boss I
needed help. Someone told me I looked horrible and I knew they were right.
I had not slept more than a few hours in the last four days. They told me to
take one of their diet pills. They said it would help. I did and it did help. It
wasn't long before I was getting myself so high during the day that I needed
downers to be able to rest at night. That was if I was not having to work.
There were things in my life that were hurting me as well, and I was
numbing myself with alcohol on top of all those pills On the freeways of Detroit I
was a tragedy looking for a place to happen. Thank God it never did.

And there I was. A college educated man who grew up in a Christian home yet all
that seemed a million miles away now. I was a junkie and an alcoholic. I
had fallen so far from grace that even God could not love me now. Or at least
that's what I thought.

I was talking on the phone when I collapsed from an accidental overdose.
They called an ambulance but they were unable to enter my apartment.
The door was locked. They were not allowed to bust down the door and had
to find the apartment manager. By the time they got in, the pills had been in
me a long time and I was in very serious trouble even though I had no idea
of what was going on. In the ambulance, on the way to the hospital, I went
into full cardiac arrest. Much later, when I was made aware of what had
happened, I was angry that they had brought me back. I did not want to live.
After all, if God no longer loved me, why would I even want to go on? The days
in the hospital were long and trying but in time I regained my will to live. I knew I
had to get rid of the drugs and alcohol if I was to have any chance to lead a
fulfilling life.

As I threw the bag into the dumpster, I knew the days ahead would be
rough. I had to face them sober. It was even rougher than I expected. I ended
up losing my job and my company would not pay me what I was owed. I was
hungry. For food and love. I had neither. I would go days without food. A family
member finally helped me get out of there and I left it all behind and joined my
family in the Oklahoma Panhandle. I had lost everything. I managed to get out
without much more than the clothes on my back, but I was out and could now
start over.

In December of '93 I married. It looked as if life was turning around. I could
love again and feel loved.I was happy again after a long period of confusion and
depression. And contrary to what I thought, I hadn't lost everything. Instead of
losing everything, I had actually lost a lot of things that were very harmful to me.
Life as I knew it was gone. This was a new life and it felt good...really good. God
had simply taken away the earthly distractions and when He did, I began to listen
to Him. Life was good again. I began to really understand just how much God
loved me But I had no idea what was coming. My re-found faith was about to be
tested as never before.

I began to have tremors and I fell a lot. I could not hold things as I once did
and had occasional seizures. It was getting worse and I had to quit my job
because my walking was affected. It was a year and a half before the doctors
could find out what was happening. Finally, I was able to see a neurologist that
specialized in movement disorders and after a lot of testing, I was diagnosed
with a disease similar to Parkinsons Disease called Supranuclear Palsy. The
disease itself will not kill me, but the things it does to my body will threaten my
life. I was already in an advanced stage of the disease and there is no cure. I
became angry with God. I had gotten off the alcohol and drugs and was
doing well. Then, here comes a disease that threatened my very being. My
attitude changed when I stopped looking at what I had lost and began to
look at what I could do with what I had left. I struggled on and God has been
so good. In spite of my illness, my will to live has gone on.

When I began to feel that God was calling me to a ministry in 1998, I fought
it. I thought that I could not operate a ministry with my illness. I also thought
that I did not have the necessary abilities to work for God. But the more I
fought it, the more it became clear that God was serious about this. I felt I
was not worthy to do Gods work. But God had other plans and The Larry
Mullinax Ministries became a reality in November of 1998.

In November 2009, I lost my beloved wife, Charley, very suddenly and without
warning just one month to the day shy of our sixteenth anniversary. It was a
shock and very difficult to get through, but God was so good and He has been
at my side constantly. I've come a long way since then and Gods awesome love
for me has never ceased to amaze me on a daily basis.

Our ministry does many things, but one key point that is the backbone of all
we do is the simple saying "God loves you no matter what you've done, who
you were or where you've been." After all, He loved me. And He pulled me from
the depths of hell and helped me change my life. Mortal man cannot forget what
you did wrong yesterday, but God can. And He does. When you have accepted
Christ as Lord and Savior, what you did in the past no longer matters. It is what
you are doing that matters most to God. He will reach down into the pits of hell
and if you'll just reach out to take His hand, He'll pull you out. I am living proof of
it!

You are looking at the result of a dream. A dream I had tucked away somewhere
because I never thought it would come true. But through the mercy and
grace of God, it did come true. In my heart, I came to grips with who I actually
was. I was simply a child of The King because of His grace and mercy. No more,
no less. And that dream about the ministry? Well, that dream lives on. Just look
around this site and see for yourself!

A Sinner Saved By Grace...My Winding Road To Redemption

TheLarry Mullinax Ministries
Sharing The Glory Of Christ Worldwide

Bro. Larry's Testimony