The Everroads have a hard time describing their life and work in terms separate from one another. In 1979 their lives were spinning out of control with selfish ambitions and worthless indulgences and their marriage was on the rocks. As an experiment, they agreed to read the New Testament aloud to each other and try everything it said to do in order to save their marriage. The agreement was that if they came to one thing that wasn’t true, after having tried it, they'd throw the book away and get a divorce. Midway through the book of Acts they had a dramatic Damascus road experience and both came to Jesus at the same time.

Completely captivated by the person of Christ, a couple years later they began to itinerate in full-time evangelistic and teaching work and contemporary gospel music ministry. Terry plays acoustic rhythm guitar. Esa plays the mountain dulcimer. They've driven over half a million miles to minister at over 250 churches in the U.S., Canada, and Latin America, to audiences numbering over a quarter million people. They were home school pioneers out of necessity rearing four children on the road. They have six grandchildren.

Terry and Esa lived for seven years in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where they started the first-ever Bible-based fellowship for the large English-speaking expatriate community there. San Miguel has been a burgeoning artists’ colony for Americans, Canadians, and Europeans since the 1940’s. Esa was a member of the prestigious Live Poets of San Miguel. Together, the Everroads organized and hosted several public and private LCA events including a poetry reading in their home with special guest Goh Poh Seng, regarded as "one of Asia'a finest living poets." Because of their easygoing way of relating to all kinds of people, Terry and Esa were in much demand as coaches and counselors.

The Everroads now make their home in a renovated century-old downtown building in Spooner, Wisconsin, in the heart of lake country, where they have a loft apartment of their own design upstairs, and an art and craft gallery downstairs. Esa owns and operates the Purple Pelican Gallery and is on the Spooner city council while Terry manages Everroad Family Ministries, the League of Christian Artists, writes a monthly perspective newsletter, and raises money for a number of mercy missions and ministers.

For All Seasons - Terry Everroad
Terry was several years into a successful radio and TV career in the early 1960’s when he dropped out and became a hippie, hanging out on Milwaukee's eastside, San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury District, Hollywood, and a number of out-of-the way places. He consumed lots of LSD and a variety of hallucinogenic drugs, drifting up and down the west coast and back and forth to the Mid-West and points in between. Among numerous misadventures, he took a freighter across the North Atlantic, journeyed overland from England to India, and lived in a shack in a Colorado ghost town.

Encouraging people along their paths in life energizes Terry. He has a discerning ear and empathetic spirit. He likes to find out what interests you and let you talk about it. He wants to know what excites you, determine what your life objectives are, and help you discover and develop the talent that will get you there. "When I help you get where you think God wants you to be," he says, "then I'm fulfilled. There's nothing more satisfying. For me, that's what life and ministry is all about."

Transparent, Naturally - Esa Everroad
Esa has no degrees after her name. In fact, she didn't finish the tenth grade. She was raised in the backwoods of the Ozark Mountains of southern Missouri, much of that on the banks of the Current River. She was a fist fighter and jig-dancer. She was pregnant when she was 15 and by 18, had two children and was living with a group of prostitutes and a motorcycle gang in St. Louis. Later, she got pregnant again and had an illegal and painful abortion. She tried to take her own life and spent time in a mental institution. The day after she walked out, she met Terry and the two have been together from that day until this.

Esa is a painter, missionary, public speaker, mother and grandmother, self-taught in every area. She is also an award-winning poet with work published in Iliad Press, Broken Streets and The Penwood Review. She has completed a full-length novel about genetic cleansing and the privatization of the penal system. She collaborated on a book on marriage with Terry and the two have conducted scores of marriage conferences and workshops.